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Saving Terri Schiavo
By Fr. Dennis | March 18, 2005
As you probably know, March 18 was the date that the courts in Florida would allow Terri Schiavo’s adultrous husband to legally murder her by starvation and dehydration. The Congress in DC has been working on putting together some new legislation in time to give Terri the same legal protection of due process that we would extend to a rapist or murderer. The Florida legislature is working on something similar. There’s a battle going on to save Terri, and there’s an ideological storm brewing over the role of the judiciary. Are we to have tyrannical “philosopher-kings” who rule by their own command?
But at the moment, attention is on how to save Terri.
From the Drudge Report, via Blogs for Terri:
The Chairman of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pension (HELP) Committee, Mike Enzi (R-Wyoming) has requested Terri Schiavo to testify before his congressional committee, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. In so doing it triggers legal or statutory protections for the witness, among those protections is that nothing can be done to cause harm or death to this individual.Members of Congress went to the U.S. Attorney in DC to ask for a temporary restraining order to be issued by a judge, which protects Terri Schiavo from having her life support, including her feeding and hydration tubes, removed…
Developing…
Calling Terri as a witness to appear before Congress is a very interesting, even brilliant, tactic.
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