{"id":41,"date":"2005-03-20T01:08:19","date_gmt":"2005-03-20T05:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoogervorst.dyndns.org\/~arthur\/wordpress\/?p=41"},"modified":"2005-03-26T11:59:34","modified_gmt":"2005-03-26T15:59:34","slug":"let-and-let-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"Let and let die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span>t looks like the Senate has reached a compromise on a bill that&#8217;s aimed at restoring the feeding tube of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=7951337\">severely brain-damaged Florida woman<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2005\/3\/19\/175157\/173\">Bipartisan support, too<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>Looking around on Metafilter, I ended up over at Abstract Appeal, which has plenty of <a href=\"http:\/\/abstractappeal.com\/schiavo\/infopage.html\">good and factual remarks<\/a> on the case. I find the timeline on that page deeply concerning and disturbing. Also read the objective comments of the judges. Here&#8217;s one pick (on the parent&#8217;s argument that Terry was reacting to her mother):\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"quote\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;The court opinions indicate that similar videos were viewed in their entirety by the trial court, which found that Terri&#8217;s actions were no more than reflexive and could not be reproduced with any consistency. The Second District affirmed that decision.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s rather sad that this case has become a political issue, not only because of the stakes but also because of the media frenzy around this case. A hotbed of emotion.\n<\/p>\n<p><small>Links inside.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the Senate has reached a compromise on a bill that&#8217;s aimed at restoring the feeding tube of a severely brain-damaged Florida woman. Bipartisan support, too. Looking around on Metafilter, I ended up over at Abstract Appeal, which &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=41\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}