Word: karens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eleven days, Superior Court Judge Robert Muir Jr. of Morris County, N.J., pondered the painful, unprecedented legal problem: Did the anguished parents of 21-year-old Karen Anne Quinlan have the right to switch off the respirator that had kept her alive since she fell into a deep coma in April? Last week Muir announced his decision. In a 44-page ruling, he noted sadly that he had to discount "the compassion, empathy, sympathy" he felt toward the Quinlan family. Both "judicial conscience and morality," he went on, told him that Karen's fate was being handled properly...
Doctors who testified at the trial agreed that Karen is in a "persistent vegetative state" and that her chances of recovery are remote. Even so, tests show slight brain activity, which means, said the judge, Karen is "not brain dead by present known medical criteria." Under common law, he went on, neither "the fact that the victim is on the threshold of death" nor "humanitarian motives" can justify taking life. Dismissing as mere "semantics" such questions as whether pulling the plug would be an act of commission or omission, he ruled that the move "would result in the taking...
Weak Case. The judge rejected all of the arguments raised by Joseph Quinlan's lawyer. Karen's reported past statements that she would not want to have her life artificially prolonged were dismissed as "too theoretical." The constitutional protection against cruel and unusual punishment did not apply, Muir said, because medical treatment "where its goal is the sustenance of life is not something degrading, arbitrarily inflicted, unacceptable to contemporary society or unnecessary." As for the right of privacy, it had to be subordinate in this case to "the state's interest in preservation of life." Muir noted...
...Maude Wood who finally found the handle and drove a low, hard shot from the left side. BU goalie Carol Rundlett made the initial save but couldn't stop Karen Linsley's shot on the rush...
...last twenty minutes of the game, Radcliffe offensive and defensive play was superb, keeping the ball almost exclusively in BU territory. Capitalizing on the Terriers' inability to clear the ball, Karen Linsley scored a second goal as her drive ricocheted off the pads of an anguished BU goalie...