Word: karens
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Since she lapsed into a coma more than eight months ago, Karen Anne Quinlan, 21, has become the center of an anguished controversy over her right to life-or death (TIME, Nov. 24 et ante). Described by her consulting doctors as being in "a vegetative state," Quinlan is breathing with the aid of a respirator, and her brain continues to send out the faintest of signals. A Morris County, N.J., court denied her adoptive parents' petition for the right to cut off the respirator that keeps Karen alive. Last week the Quinlans filed their first written arguments in what...
Regarding the ruling in the Karen Anne Quinlan case [Nov. 24], the next "logical" step would be for the New Jersey prosecutor to bring charges against Christian Scientists and any others who have had a relative die because they did not attempt to use all available mechanical and artificial means to keep the patient alive...
...dozen of its officials and ex-officials formed Womansurge at a secret eight-hour meeting two weeks ago in a New Orleans airport-motel room. The strategy: to counter what they see as the ruinously revolutionary drift of the present NOW leadership, including President Karen DeCrow, 37, a Syracuse lawyer who narrowly won re-election in October on the slogan OUT OF THE MAINSTREAM AND INTO THE REVOLUTION. Argues Brandeis Professor Mordeca Jane Pollock, 34, one of the moderate dissidents: "If you have any political sense, you don't talk about revolution in America today. We've grown...
Critics who argue that the decision is the equivalent of a life sentence for Karen felt the judge was far too cautious in dealing with the broad philosophical issues involved in the case. But most legal experts agreed that Muir had to rule as he did because of the weakness of the case presented by Joseph Quinlan's lawyer...
...Quinlans have until the end of December to decide whether to appeal. Meanwhile, Judge Muir has relieved them of the responsibility of giving "counsel, advice and concurrence" on decisions about Karen's treatment; that power has been given to Karen's court-appointed attorney, Daniel Coburn, who has been named her guardian...