The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) issued this statement from Jane M. Orient, M.D. in response to the emergency action of the Florida legislature to reinstate feeding and hydration of Terri Schindler-Schiavo:
-Michael Schiavo says it-s cruel to begin rehydration. The opposite is true – dehydration is a cruel, painful death. It is unconscionable that the state would have allowed removal of her feeding tube in the first place-it-s nothing less than state-sponsored euthanasia.”