---- Original message ----
>Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 17:42:02 -0400
>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Schiavo had half a regulation brain
>To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>
>C. G. Estabrook wrote:
>
>>...[Nader] pointed out that "slow death by dehydration is being
>>imposed upon her under the color of law, in proceedings in
>>which every benefit of the doubt -- and there are many doubts
>>in this case -- has been given to her death, rather than her
>>continued life ... This outrageous order proves that the
>>courts are not merely permitting medical treatment to be
>>withheld, it has ordered her to be made dead."
>
>Damn, I just had a fight with someone on the WBAI producers
list on
>this. No court ordered her death. It allowed her husband to
do what
>spouses everywhere are and should be allowed to do - agree to
the
>termination of life support when someone is truly hopeless,
and that
>accords with the dying person's stated wishes. And I don't
see how
>people who made claims for her viability aren't deeply
embarrassed by
>the autopsy report. If you don't trust "reports of" the
autopsy, the
>original is at
><http://news.findlaw.com/nytimes/docs/schiavo/61305autopsyrpt.pdf>.
>
>Doug
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