Mansfield Fox

Law student. Yankees fan. Massive fraggle. Just living the American dream.

Friday, March 18, 2005

They're Coming for Her

Legislative efforts to save Terri Schiavo, in Washington and Tallahassee, seem to have failed. As I see it, there are only three things that might prevent the removal of her feeding tube tomorrow at 1:00 pm:

1. Justice Kennedy grants the emergency stay her parents have sought.

2. Governor Bush sends in the Florida National Guard to, forcibly if necessary, prevent the removal of the feeding tubes.

3. Michael Schiavo, realizing the monstrosity of what he's about to do, changes his mind at the last moment.


Pray.

UPDATE: And then there's this:
**Exclusive Fri Mar 18 2005 00:50:07 ET** 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...
She's not just a human being, she's under subpoena!

Thanks be to God (and to St. Jude Thaddeus, who's putting in serious overtime on this case).

Maybe it's just my fallen nature darkening my intelligence, but I really can't believe we're just going to let this woman starve to death. Something will turn up. It just has to.