Terri's Watch : A Victory for Life

UPDATE: A Victory!!!!! Both BlogsforTerri and WorldNetDaily have confirmed that 81 year old Mae Magouirk has been airlifted to the University of Alabama-Birmingham Medical Center.
Her nephew, Ken Mullinax, told WorldNetDaily that "she is receiving food, fluids, cardiac care and neurological help." Read the full story here.
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GOD ALMIGHTY what is going on in this country! Some of you thought I was nuts for voicing my views in the Terri Schiavo case. Now we have a woman with with poor eyesight and a heart problem they are KILLING as we speak. Folks, if you sit on your hands and do nothing in this case shame on you. For those of you who want the "right to die" what you have been given is the "right to kill". Read the story below. THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE!!!!

In a situation recalling the recent death of Terri Schiavo in Florida, an 81-year-old widow, denied nourishment and fluids for nearly two weeks, is clinging to life in a hospice in LaGrange, Ga., while her immediate family fights desperately to save her life before she dies of starvation and dehydration.

Mae Magouirk was neither terminally ill, comatose nor in a "vegetative state," when Hospice-LaGrange accepted her as a patient about two weeks ago upon the request of her granddaughter, Beth Gaddy, 36, an elementary school teacher.

Also upon Gaddy's request and without prior legal authority, since March 28 Hospice-LaGrange has denied Magouirk normal nourishment or fluids via a feeding tube through her nose or fluids via an IV. She has been kept sedated.

The dehydration is being done in defiance of Magouirk's specific wishes, which she set down in a "living will," and without agreement of her closest living next-of-kin, two siblings and a nephew. In her living will, Magouirk stated that fluids and nourishment were to be withheld only if she were either comatose or "vegetative," and she is neither. Nor is she terminally ill, which is generally a requirement for admission to a hospice.

Two weeks ago, Magouirk's aorta had a dissection, and she was hospitalized in the local LaGrange Hospital. Her aortic problem was determined to be severe, and she was admitted to the intensive care unit. At the time of her admission she was lucid and had never been diagnosed with dementia.

"Grandmama is old and I think it is time she went home to Jesus," Gaddy told Magouirk's brother and nephew. "She has glaucoma and now this heart problem, and who would want to live with disabilities like these?"

Plese read this entire story here