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Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation Thanks Holy See for Reaffirming Obligation to Care for Disabled
Christian Newswire ^ | 9/14/07 | The Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation

Posted on 09/15/2007 1:38:21 PM PDT by wagglebee

Vatican Statement Defends Pope John Paul II’s 2004 Allocution on the Moral Obligation to Care for and Show Compassion for All People Like Terri

Contact: Suzanne Vitadamo, The Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation, 727-490-7603, info@terrisfight.org

ST. PETERSBURG, Fl., Sept. 14  /Christian Newswire/ -- By issuing its latest statement on the obligation to feed and hydrate those persons deemed to be in a "vegetative" or even comatose state, the Vatican today reiterated its two thousand year old teaching that all human life is sacred and deserving of our care, no matter its condition. The Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation (Terri's Foundation) wishes to extend its sincere thanks to the Holy See for again repeating this vital truth.

Even if a person is severely injured, compromised or otherwise limited in his or her abilities, they still retain their "fundamental human dignity and must, therefore, receive ordinary and proportionate care" according to the Vatican. This includes providing them both food and water, even if by artificial means.

It is our fervent hope that the clergy, religious and those who administer Catholic health care, as well as the laity who persistently ignored the basic right to life of our daughter and sister Terri, and who persist to this day to dissent from this basic moral teaching of the Church by claiming that Pope John Paul II's March 20th allocution is "up for discussion", will begin to open their eyes and hearts to the immutable and incontrovertible truth re-affirmed by the Holy See today.

"We find it sad that many of those who claim to speak on behalf of the betterment of society and concern for the poor were against Terri and our efforts to care for her," said Robert Schindler, Terri's father. 

As the Associated Press was quick to point out, "the Vatican condemned [Terri] Schiavo's death as 'arbitrarily hastened' and called the removal of her feeding tube a violation of the principles of Christianity and civilization."

Our fight continues every day to defend the lives of vulnerable persons threatened by new laws which redefine feeding tubes as "artificial life support" and also "medical futility" laws that allow hospitals, nursing and hospice facilities and family members to abandon our fellow human beings to a torturous death by starvation and dehydration or by any other means.

As we stated to His Eminence, Cardinal William Joseph Levada, Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in April of 2006, "Our goal is to defend the rights of our severely brain-injured or otherwise disabled brothers and sisters in the hope of preventing what happened to our Terri from ever happening to another."

Today's statement from the Vatican moves us much closer toward that goal.

About the Schindler Family: Mary and Robert Schindler as well as Suzanne Schindler Vitadamo and Bobby Schindler now work for The Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation in St. Petersburg, Florida, an organization dedicated to promoting the Culture of Life, embracing the true meaning of compassion by opposing the practice of euthanasia.



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"We find it sad that many of those who claim to speak on behalf of the betterment of society and concern for the poor were against Terri and our efforts to care for her," said Robert Schindler, Terri's father.

And we need to remind everyone who those people were who wanted Terri to die.

1 posted on 09/15/2007 1:38:31 PM PDT by wagglebee
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2 posted on 09/15/2007 1:39:25 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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3 posted on 09/15/2007 1:40:15 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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4 posted on 09/15/2007 1:41:12 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee
The humblegunner foundation thanks you for allowing me to expire when I can no longer care for myself.

Y'all need to let go of this Schiavo stuff, it's like an obsession.

5 posted on 09/15/2007 1:41:33 PM PDT by humblegunner (©)
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To: wagglebee

life


6 posted on 09/15/2007 1:43:00 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: wagglebee
Let the poor soul rest in peace already.

7 posted on 09/15/2007 1:45:50 PM PDT by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: I see my hands; humblegunner

What the Schindlers said had nothing to do with Terri, they are concerned about how others who may fall victim to the culture of death.

Or are you suggesting that the entire pro-life movement should just shut down?


8 posted on 09/15/2007 1:48:05 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee
"Or are you suggesting.."

My suggestion was crystal clear. How can you pretend to not understand it and think you maintain credibility?


9 posted on 09/15/2007 1:53:40 PM PDT by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: I see my hands

Then I am confused, what qualifications do you have to determine how a family can best honor the memory of a deceased loved one?


10 posted on 09/15/2007 1:55:54 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: humblegunner
allowing me to expire when I can no longer care for myself

No one has any say so about when you expire ....but what about being deliberately starved to death; thus killing a person?

Y'all need to let go of this Schiavo stuff, it's like an obsession.

Caring about 'life' is an obsession to you? And condemnation to others on what you have no concern about is called what?
11 posted on 09/15/2007 2:04:53 PM PDT by presently no screen name (:)
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To: humblegunner
Life does that to a person. It becomes an obsession. Yes, sir, we become mighty stirred up when we see some folks ready to take it from us, should we become vulnerable. For that reason -- to protect our persons against the ambushing murderous ones, for example -- the right to bear deadly weapons is a natural human right is specially marked for protection from government in the Bill of Rights.

But there are more basic and primal rights that are due the respect of all persons and all officials. The Bill of Rights, for example protects freedom of assembly -- but does not protect the right to contract, the right to live, the right to marry, the right to property. Why does it not protect those basic, primal rights?

Because until recently our national ethos was higher, our forefathers could never have imagined those rights would be voided or harmed.

If one supports the Second, by what twisted logic can one justify that some Judge can order a person dead by civil order?

12 posted on 09/15/2007 2:06:46 PM PDT by bvw
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Let the poor soul rest in peace already.

First of all Terri is not a poor soul. She is walking on streets of gold with not a care. Secondly, she's not resting - she is with her Creator - the one that gave her life. And He knows all.

Those are the rewards of the righteous and those that believe in life. In Terri's words - where there is life, there is hope. Those that think they were successful and all their cheerleaders who got their wish to do away with her have no idea about 'success'. Compared to eternity - 100 years on this earth is a drop in a bucket. When one sows evil, they reap evil.
13 posted on 09/15/2007 2:17:10 PM PDT by presently no screen name (:)
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To: presently no screen name

Great responses!


14 posted on 09/15/2007 2:18:11 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: bvw
Because until recently our national ethos was higher, our forefathers could never have imagined those rights would be voided or harmed.

What's even more unimaginable is that people who profess to be conservatives would not support these rights.

15 posted on 09/15/2007 2:19:40 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: presently no screen name
Amazing.

16 posted on 09/15/2007 2:21:43 PM PDT by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: wagglebee

Thank you and thank God for His Word.


17 posted on 09/15/2007 2:25:34 PM PDT by presently no screen name (:)
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To: I see my hands
you are half right.........

It's called AMAZING GRACE
18 posted on 09/15/2007 2:27:22 PM PDT by presently no screen name (:)
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To: I see my hands; presently no screen name

I’m curious, does you theory of “let it rest” extend to Holocaust survivors?

What about America, should we just forget about 9/11/01?


19 posted on 09/15/2007 2:28:09 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: presently no screen name
I don't need you to finish my post.

No, I didn't refer to anything called amazing grace. You're wrong about that too.


20 posted on 09/15/2007 2:30:48 PM PDT by I see my hands (_8(|)
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