HELP TERRI NOW!
Please, please, please, contact your congressman and voice your support for this bill as I have. Not only for Terri, but for all of the old and infirm who's lives hang in the balance.
LIFE AND DEATH TUG OF WAR
Federal bill introduced to save Terri SchiavoMeasure gives
incapacitated same due process as condemned inmates
Posted: March 8, 20052:54 p.m. Eastern
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
Two Republican lawmakers from Florida introduced legislation in Congress today they hope will save the life of Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged woman whose parents are battling a court order to remove her life-sustaining feeding tube.
Sen. Mel Martinez and Rep. David Weldon say the Incapacitated Person's Legal Protection Act will give Schiavo, and others in similar situations, the same constitutional protection of due process as death-row inmates.
Current law leaves the rights of disabled persons at the mercy of courts instead of the Constitution, the lawmakers argue.
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posted by Mike Bennett @ 8:38 AM
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"Current law leaves the rights of disabled persons at the mercy of courts instead of the Constitution, the lawmakers argue."
That's good rhetoric, but pretty silly as a matter of substance. Habeas Corpus (what the bill provides) does two things: allows for a rehearing on already-decided matters, and effects a change of venue.
jpe,
You are right, that is very good rhetoric. The definition of rhetoric is as follows:
"The art or study of using language effectively and persuasively.
A treatise or book discussing this art.
Skill in using language effectively and persuasively." :-)
You are going to have to explain to me why this is silly, I don't understand. Do you believe a handicapped person should not be able to have an appeal when a single judge gives them a death sentence?
BTW, I left a comment on your blog that I don't think you ever answered. Why do you think that a disabled person like Terri should not have the same right as any other American to not be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law and a trial by a jury of ones peers?
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