Paul Gillmor Quotes
In this life and death case, I felt Mrs. Schiavo should receive the fullest due process from our legal system.
Gillmor, Paul. "Press Release." Official Website of Representative Paul Gillmor, U.S. House of Representatives, 2005.
The Congressman had been found to have committed a number of serious ethical violations and then was accused by a Texas District Attorney of his own party of money laundering and violating Texas campaign finance laws. His ethical and legal problems were heavily covered in the news when the Schiavo case developed of the woman whose brain had been starved for oxygen, for years in a persistent vegetative state, who had not wished to live hooked up to tubes. Some conservatives challenged the right of the husband and the hospital to follow the woman’s wishes even after the courts had consistently ruled that this had been the woman’s wish. Delay used this tragic case to divert attention from his own lapses. It did not work. Some months thereafter, he was forced to resign.
A Florida Right to Die Case became a political football and Congress called a special session to require additional court review of the case that affected a single woman and her family that made the national news.
Refers to issues like abortion, in-vitro fertilization, and the use of extraordinary life-extending procedures
See {587703} for a similar statement by a Supreme Court Justice.
The call for individual liberty and the right of personal property by clergy is surprising to many. This Cahier was the consensus of the Clergy of Blois in 1789. There were cahiers of several provinces of France—some by the clergy, some by the nobles. What is fascinating is the emergence of many of the pre-Revolutionary French concepts. The example of the American revolution and its principles was known throughout the educated classes of France.
Sarah Palin, former Republican Governor of Alaska, coined a new term when she charged that proposed Health Care legislation would create a "death panel" See Palin Quotation 644138. It was an absolute lie totally made up by Palin. However a number of conservative members of Congress then repeated the prevarication in Congressional Debate and elsewhere. One poll showed that after it spread, about 85% of respondents were familiar with the charge and of those who were familiar with it, about 30% thought it was true and Palin's new term won the dubius distinction of winning the "Lie of the Year" award. Despite the fact that it was totally false, in order to win Obamacare be a single vote, the President had to eliminate the part of the bill that allowed payment to physicians to take the time and explain to patients and/or their families, the various options of palliative treatment during the last months of life. Many people thought that the doctors would form death panels.
Paul Eugene Gillmor was an American politician of the Republican Party who served as the U.S. Representative from the 5th congressional district of Ohio from 1989 until his death in 2007.
