{"id":1373,"date":"2005-02-22T07:00:47","date_gmt":"2005-02-22T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/02\/22\/terri-schiavos-feeding-tube-may-be-removed-today\/"},"modified":"2005-02-22T07:00:47","modified_gmt":"2005-02-22T15:00:47","slug":"terri-schiavos-feeding-tube-may-be-removed-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1373","title":{"rendered":"Terri Schiavo&#039;s feeding tube may be removed today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is of interest to folks who have been following the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theennead.com\/amptoons\/blog\/archives\/category\/terri-schiavo\/\">Terri Schiavo case<\/a>: unless a court intervenes, Terri Schiavo&#8217;s feeding tube will be removed today. (So far &#8211; as of 10am Florida time &#8211; there has not been a court intervention &#8211; although there was a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogsforterri.com\/archives\/2005\/02\/latest_update_o_1.php\">false report<\/a> of a court intervention, so that&#8217;s created some confusion.)<\/p>\n<p>Do I want Schiavo to die? No, but to me the question is nonsensical, because I&#8217;m convinced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.contracostatimes.com\/mld\/cctimes\/news\/7108113.htm?1c\">she died 15 years ago<\/a>.  Not everyone agrees with me, of course. The pro-life blogs are making <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogsforterri.com\/\">a final (or not?) push<\/a> to try and save Terri&#8217;s &#8220;life&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prolifeblogs.com\/articles\/archives\/2005\/02\/a_call_to_all_b.php\">placing an ad<\/a> in the St. Petersburg Times.<\/p>\n<p>As always, <a href=\"http:\/\/abstractappeal.com\/\">Abstract Appeal<\/a> is the blog with the best information on this case (especially for legal matters). The medical blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rangelmd.com\/2004\/09\/florida-supreme-court-strikes-down.html\">RangelMD also has an excellent series<\/a> on the medical and ethical issues involved.<\/p>\n<p>Also of interest is this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raggededgemagazine.com\/extra\/schiavodr2essays.html\">Ragged Edge point-counterpoint feature<\/a> (it&#8217;s actually a couple of years old), debating whether or not Schiavo&#8217;s cause should be a concern of the disabled rights community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is of interest to folks who have been following the Terri Schiavo case: unless a court intervenes, Terri Schiavo&#8217;s feeding tube will be removed today. (So far &#8211; as of 10am Florida time &#8211; there has not been a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1373\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disabled-rights-issues","category-terri-schiavo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}