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To: Ilaine who wrote (105686)	3/24/2005 12:48:16 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793698

And no doubt feels perfectly justified. Doctors have been doing this since the start of the profession. It is only in the last 100 years that it has become a problem. A combination of medical advances that prolong live and new drugs that can end life easily. Suicide among Doctors is very high because of this.

To: Ilaine who wrote (105686)	3/24/2005 3:52:59 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793698

I've been following the Schiavo discussion by flipping back and forth between CNN and Fox and just heard for the first time someone make the point that the federal courts have not ignored congress re the de novo hearing but rather that the attorneys for the parents had failed to put that in motion. This point that the attorneys "didn't make the best argument that they had" was made by Laurence Tribe. He went on to make the further point that the federal courts appropriately assumed for the purpose of the emergency order that the Schiavo law was constitutional but, before this de novo hearing could actually happen, a determination would need to be made that the law was constitutional and he thought it wouldn't be found constitutional so the de novo hearing would not happen in any case. He also said that de novo review doesn't necessarily mean reopening the whole inquiry but only that they could look at things without deference to what the state had done. Meanwhile, on that very same program, Greta Sustern's program, Hannity was still going on about how the federal courts were thumbing their noses at congress by ignoring the specification for a de novo hearing.