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Supreme Court Denies Latest Appeal in Terri Schiavo Case

By Jeralyn, Section Civil Liberties
Posted on Wed Mar 30, 2005 at 08:19:51 PM EST
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Terri Schiavo's parents' legal appeals are now exhausted. The Supreme Court has denied their their latest filing (pdf). Scotus Blog reports the same.

May she die and rest in peace. Time to move on. Robert Friedman's column in the St. Petersburg Times has a persective that I suspect will be echoed frequently in coming days. [link via Atrios.]

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    Supreme Court Denies Latest Appeal in Terri Schiavo Case | 15 comments (15 topical)
    Re: Supreme Court Denies Latest Appeal in Terri Sc (none / 0) (#1)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Wed Mar 30, 2005 at 08:38:17 PM EST
    I hope their "religious advisors" can now stop with their self-serving efforts, and do what they should have done long ago, and help the Schindlers come to terms with Terri's death.

    Re: Supreme Court Denies Latest Appeal in Terri Sc (none / 0) (#2)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Wed Mar 30, 2005 at 10:26:39 PM EST
    Just because someone does something iditiotic, it does not make them an idiot. Idiots are born, not made.

    Re: Supreme Court Denies Latest Appeal in Terri Sc (none / 0) (#3)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Wed Mar 30, 2005 at 10:51:09 PM EST
    Well, even after this, we should keep an eye on that Michael Schiavo guy to make sure he never does this again.

    Re: Supreme Court Denies Latest Appeal in Terri Sc (none / 0) (#4)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Thu Mar 31, 2005 at 12:52:15 AM EST
    If a feeding tube is not considered “Life Support” then removing it would not CAUSE a loss of life. But ALL the news stations are missing the REAL point of all this political bandwagoning: JUDGES !!! You hear it subtly: activist…runaway…derelict…arrogant … JUDGES !!! They believe that WE NEED legislation to limit Free Will unless it’s been spell checked and notarized in triplicate. I told my daughter to NEVER allow a feeding tube to be put in me. She said she heard they were going to make it easier to contest a living will and she won’t ever be able to let me go. So remember my name, you may be doing a “Linda Brown, This Is Your Death” for ME someday. God, did I just hear a “Guest” on Greta’s show say that protesters actually applauded when told that Terri urinated last night ? What the _ _ _ _ is wrong with US? It used to be said that nothing is certain but Death and Taxes … Now we look forward to Taxes. Hey "Right" read this: A man shall leave his mother, a woman leave her home, and they shall travel on as one. So her husband has every right to make all decisions for his wife. I know it's hard on a family to let go, I watched my mother "starve to death" in hospice for 30 days, it wasn't easy but I knew it was what she wanted. It would've been easier if Terri had talked to her mother and maybe that's the point. When your faith interferes with someone's trust in your reaction to her FREE WILL, you've lost the ability to be truly compassionate. Compassion: The ability to care for someone even when you disagree on how.

    Re: Supreme Court Denies Latest Appeal in Terri Sc (none / 0) (#5)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Thu Mar 31, 2005 at 02:50:21 AM EST
    REVEREND Jesse Jackson was ASKED by the parents to be at their side during what for them is a hellacious moment. They still have their ability to feel pain and cognize its implications, and JJ is a compassionate person, as he has proved REPEATEDLY. So he says some mollifying things, even seems to sympathize with the enemies of the moment. I didn't hear anything horrendous from Jackson -- I heard some simple statements in sympathy with the parents' perspective. What's he supposed to do, protest them? Furthermore, Jackson made the important point that if the so-called culture of life is actually that, they have to broaden their focus beyond racial lines and focus on world hunger. SIX MILLION children die of starvation every year. If Jackson's words affect the minds of 10% of the people who are deeply involved emotionally in this debacle, he might save hundreds of thousands of those children through their increased giving to charity. Compared to that, Mark, you're just wasting tomatoes.

    Re: Supreme Court Denies Latest Appeal in Terri Sc (none / 0) (#6)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Thu Mar 31, 2005 at 05:20:49 AM EST
    Regardless of your political/religious leanings, don't you just see something wrong with this? Doesn't something deep down bother you about the fact that she is being slowly starved to death - for almost two weeks now? Do you really think that if all her involuntary organs can function that she can not feel involuntary pain and discomfort? Is it not possible that 20+ courts all made the same mistake? Hasn't the same kind of thing happened when people are wrongly accused of a crime and later vilified?

    Re: Supreme Court Denies Latest Appeal in Terri Sc (none / 0) (#7)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Thu Mar 31, 2005 at 05:30:26 AM EST
    Linda Brown - Somehow I don't think you live by the book, so why quote it to make a point? PIL - Jesse said what was being done was wrong. Period.

    Re: Supreme Court Denies Latest Appeal in Terri Sc (none / 0) (#8)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Thu Mar 31, 2005 at 05:57:32 AM EST
    What Jackson says is it is wrong to die this way --if that was really the reason -then why has it taken him so long to protest a form of death chosen by many over a long time looks like a case of opportunistic ethics to me

    Re: Supreme Court Denies Latest Appeal in Terri Sc (none / 0) (#9)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Thu Mar 31, 2005 at 06:05:27 AM EST
    What A Load – Is starvation really a common choice of death for those who are severely disabled? Do you have evidence of this?

    Re: Supreme Court Denies Latest Appeal in Terri Sc (none / 0) (#10)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Thu Mar 31, 2005 at 06:08:30 AM EST
    chosing to end life by no longer having a feeding tube in a common way to end life in hospices all over the country your loaded question about the disabled is not relevant to this case

    Re: Supreme Court Denies Latest Appeal in Terri Sc (none / 0) (#11)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Thu Mar 31, 2005 at 06:18:42 AM EST
    Believe it or not, I didn't intend it to be a "loaded" question. That being said, why else would someone choose to have a feeding tube disconnected unless they were severly disabled? What other situation would make someone make this choice?

    Re: Supreme Court Denies Latest Appeal in Terri Sc (none / 0) (#12)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Thu Mar 31, 2005 at 06:33:46 AM EST
    "why else would someone choose to have a feeding tube disconnected unless they were severly disabled? What other situation would make someone make this choice?" When they only feel tormented by continued medical intervention. It happens all the time.

    Re: Supreme Court Denies Latest Appeal in Terri Sc (none / 0) (#13)
    by Jlvngstn on Thu Mar 31, 2005 at 06:48:14 AM EST
    PPJ: I respect your views on this case and believe when you say that had their been an advanced directive it would be a no brainer for you. However, your statement above "Jesse said what is being done is wrong" sounds conflicted. Jesse has said this: "In his statement, Jackson added, "a consistent moral and ethical position would extend a feeding tube to all who are confronted with starvation -- to demand public, government policy to feed the hungry." To all is fairly comprehensive. Does this mean any family should no longer have the option of removing a feeding tube if the person has specifically requested not to be kept in that position? That statement by Jesse seems to me to support a ban on all feeding tube removals, not just ones where there may be reasonable doubt (such as this case) as to the person's wishes.

    Re: Supreme Court Denies Latest Appeal in Terri Sc (none / 0) (#14)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Thu Mar 31, 2005 at 06:58:13 AM EST
    Mrs. Schiavo has died It's unfortunate the parents could not be with her but they shouldn't have called him a murderer and an abuser --there might have been some hope for reconciliation but they continued to violate his privacy and subject him to death threats

    Re: Supreme Court Denies Latest Appeal in Terri Sc (none / 0) (#15)
    by Jlvngstn on Thu Mar 31, 2005 at 08:03:42 AM EST
    How can we feel any more sympathy for this family than those of the 20,000 or so homicide victims' families? Her bulimia caused her condition and demise. There are far more pressing issues in this country than her life and I am utterly disgusted by the media circus. When Bush flies to the WH at 1 a.m. to sign legislation that will help the 50 million americans without health coverage, I will then feel as if government involvement was warranted and worthy of praise. People die. It sucks. Terri Schiavo's case was not worthy of the national attention it received.

    Supreme Court Denies Latest Appeal in Terri Schiavo Case | 15 comments (15 topical)