Terri's Day and nation's independence protects life culture

Renew America ^ | May 29, 2006 | Kevin Fobbs

[KevinNuPac]

Terri's Day and nation's independence protects life culture

Kevin Fobbs May 29, 2006

America's Culture of Life is truly the legacy of one woman whose death forever changed our nation because of actions that were not in her hands but in those of her husband and his lawyers. Yet for millions of Americans we will forever link our own celebration of our nation's independence to the courage of the Schindler family to go forward past the tragedy, past the personal sorrow, past the searing anguish to help America draw a distinct line in the sand, to issue a clarion call to America.

Our 4th of July is coming... Our Culture of Life Independence Day is on its way. Our month of Independence is a message that March 31st (Terri's Day) will signal, that July 4th will signal... and that the month of July will signal to defend the Culture of Life before we lose it forever.

When we talked with our family members or even our neighbors or our friends we may have spent but a moment reflecting upon why we are even gathered on a Memorial Day afternoon. Do we think about the sacrifice of our soldiers and of their families? Do we think about the long goodbyes which are never long enough... as the military families send their loved ones to war, to battle, to stand firm for our freedoms... for our life... for our nation and its values of faith?

How does Terri Schiavo and her legacy tie into this? Terri's legacy and Terri's Day is a representation of a right to live, and freedom to have the liberty to not have it compromised away, devalued by inconvenience, or litigated away by judges who celebrate a culture of death that would rob life from the womb, steal life from a hospital or hospice bed, and destroy and shatter a family's love for a daughter, a sister and aunt who was given a gift from God, but had it separated from her as easily as an ant would have its life take by an uncaring shoe... extinguished forever.

The families who send their loved ones off to war have to wonder as well, does America value their sacrifice? The families of the military have to wonder just where does its society draw the line on its values? A soldier who is in battle in Iraq or Afghanistan has to wonder if a Florida judge can take away the life of an innocent, what is the measure of his life? Would a judge in America suddenly decide that if he were injured, if he had to sacrifice a limb that the protesters outside his hospital bed would have more rights than he would or his family? Would this soldier have to wonder that if he or his fellow soldier were killed in battle, that upon their return that the protesters who would stand outside of his funeral... have more rights to be protected than the rights his family would have to a military burial with honor?

You see, the Culture of Life is about Terri Schiavo, because Americans now have to examine the life of our culture itself. We have to wonder if we as a nation of Christians and of a nation of faith and of a nation of compassion would allow for a state to murder an innocent woman and strip her family of their loved one then as a nation would we allow America to have other symbols of life, of our nation to be peeled away as well, all in open sight and in plain view of a dispassionate nation?

What does our American Culture mean if we allow millions of illegal aliens to literally browbeat us into submission by demanding that because they have stolen across our borders, demanded and received protection from local law enforcement in numerous cities throughout the U. S., obtained free or reduced educational opportunities by state public colleges that our own children could not qualify to receive the same financial aid assistance for. Are we that defenseless to let illegals strip our state coffers of housing assistance for loans and mortgages when tens of thousands in almost every state in America have legal citizens who are homeless, impoverished, or working poor or middle class Americans who need similar assistance but cannot receive it. And they are legal! They are citizens! They are Americans.

What is so wrong about our nation when we are so ready to compromise our freedoms, our culture's life, the life of an innocent and the taking of any life is the taking of our own children's life and their child's. And with each successive generation the nation and its life, its values, its traditions, and its language will disappear because we as Americans were too preoccupied — too narrow — to see that an illegal alien was taking your child's education, that a crusading death culture judge was preparing a bed, a room, a legal precedent to take your child, grandchild or sister or parent.

That is why I have stayed my course to defend the Culture of Life and to ask my fellow Americans to begin to understand that as Terri Schiavo's life was slowly ebbing from her body and as her mother Mary, father Bob, sister Suzanne, and brother Bobby waited in the Florida early morning air on March 31st, 2005, America was having part of its soul ebb away as well.

What will it take to spark an interest, a concern, and a passion for protecting one's own life? Some may say that it would take a clear and present danger — like tanks rolling down your neighborhood street or another 9/11 that strikes at the heart of America. Do we have the convenience to wait? Do we wait until a state legislature in Maine or California or Delaware or Ohio or Illinois decides that your mother's decision to live is determined by a hospital "bean counter" who decides that your mother's life is not based upon a "Will To Live" but an ability to pay her bill? What about a baby, not born, but already set for murder in the womb — not because the mother is pro-life or pro-death but because "the law" says the unborn baby's life is expendable because the baby's genes are determined to be part of a class or a group or a race or of an ethnicity which pre-programs the child, un-born, to death?

America is being murdered in small pieces. It is seeing its values, its life, its culture disemboweled with the finesse of a skilled surgeon. And it is America's poll takers and its legislators and its uncaring, disinterested, and uninvolved who are handling the scalpel. Take the scalpel away. Contact www.Terrisfight.org to join the Foundation's battle to educate America about the right to live. Go to Terri's Day on www.kevinfobbs.com to learn about new updates on Terri's Day and the event to celebrate the Culture of life.

So on Independence Day and Independence month of July will we have any Americans who will sign up and join the Culture of Life movement in their community? Even if it is to sign a pledge, hand out a flyer, become aware of legislators and judicial candidates who have agreed to stand firm for the Culture of Life — a crusade that is based not only upon the life of Terri Schiavo's legacy but equally crucial based also upon the legacy of the right to live, to defend our culture and the life of its values.

Terri's Day is not the end of a national movement but the beginning of a national contract with itself to stand for a future that our nation can guarantee for its children and for a culture that will insure life. The right to live will be Terri's legacy — our legacy... one nation under God. Join us in your homes, on your family picnics, out camping and celebrating July 14th and 15th ... Our American Culture of Life belongs to each and every one of us... We must protect it. Let's celebrate together.

Kevin Fobbs is President of National Urban Policy Action Council (NuPac), a non-partisan civic and citizen-action organization that focuses on taking the politics out of policy to secure urban America's future one neighborhood, one city, and one person at a time. View NuPac on the web at www.nupac.info. Kevin Fobbs is a regular contributing columnist for the Detroit News. He is also the host of The Kevin Fobbs Show: go to: ,www.kevinfobbs.com. To contact him go to: kevin@kevinfobbs.com.

© Copyright 2006 by Kevin Fobbs http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/fobbs/060529

[floriduh voter]

Why don't they let Haleigh listen to music? Music does wonders.

[floriduh voter]

Katherine Harris will get a bump soon because I just found at Katherine Harris bumper sticker I didn't know I had.

The polls have become so agendized that they are not to be believed.

Tom Gallagher is doing very well himself but you wouldn't know it from the standard polls.

[floriduh voter]

This group of political/activist doctors endorsed Crist. I wonder how many of these names are affiliated with Florida's death care system?

The FLAMPAC Board of Directors met on March 4-5, 2005 in Orlando to approve the new slate of officers for the 2005-2006 election year. The

FLAMPAC Board is pleased to announce the following Executive Committee members:

1. David J. Becker, M.D., President 2. James Rubenstein, M.D. - Vice President 3.Madelyn Butler, M.D. - Secretary 4.John Katopodis, M.D. Treasurer 5.Rafael J. Nobo, M.D. - Treasurer-Designate 6.Steven R. West, M.D. - Immediate Past President 7.Dennis S. Agliano, M.D., FMA President 8.Anne Grenitz, FMAA President 9.E. Coy Irvin, M.D., Council on Legislation Chair 10.Stephan Baker, M.D. - MD 1000 Club Chair 11.Troy M. Tippett, M.D., FMA President-Elect 12. Carl W. "Rick" Lentz, M.D., AMPAC Board of Directors

ADDITIONALLY, I looked at Crist's women's coalition. Florida women politicians who voted TO KILL TERRI SCHIAVO are for Crist.

Neither Crist or these women are pro-life. They are part and parcel of George Soros Death Project which is layered at the fla ag's page as the Robert Woods Johnson org.

[floriduh voter]

1. David J. Becker, M.D. = HOSPICE and has written papers re: right to die. (he endorsed Crist). He probably knows Felos and Greer, et al.

[floriduh voter]

2. James Rubenstein, MD Ft. Myers Oncologist KNOWS our favorite bioethicker Arthur Caplan (a premiere euthanasist). This is the google wording.

"Arthur L. Caplan,. director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of ... James Rubenstein, MD. ACRO President/Radiation Oncologist ..."

That's strike two for Crist. Let's see if number three on his endorsement list is associated with bioethickers.

[floriduh voter]

3. Madelyn Butler, MD (all her stuff is in pdf format).

[8mmMauser]

A case to watch, the young man being forced into a chemotherapy he doesn't watch. But the judge rules his life...

In a case that is being compared to that of Terri Schiavo, a Virginia family has been fighting a legal battle to control medical treatment of a 16-year-old boy who wants to refuse conventional radiation and chemotherapy to shrink tumors.

Starchild Abraham Cherrix already has had four rounds of chemotherapy and radiation for treating Hodkin's disease. With the blessing of his parents, he now wants to pursue an herbal treatment that the Food and Drug Administration has said is worthless.

Who has the right to decide?... State of Virginia tries to force teen into more chemotherapy.

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(this includes Ohioan from Florida's ping list, update to July 23.)



Terri on the road to recovery before the second stage began.

[8mmMauser]

Just as we smiled in relief at Jeb's support of Carla Iyer, we get this. Randall Terry stood at our sides in defense of Terri Schiavo, pushes to follow the model of Ronald Reagan. On the diametric opposite we find the leader of the killing apparatus...

The Republican governor endorsed Sen. Jim King of Jacksonville, even though King was part of a group of GOP senators who blocked a law just before Schiavo died in March 2005 that would have kept her alive at least a little longer.

King is being challenged this year by abortion opponent Randall Terry, a fellow Republican who was a spokesman for Schiavo's parents while they fought in court to stop her husband from having her feeding tube removed. Terry has called King "the highest-ranking elected official that is responsible for Schiavo's death."

Governor backs King for Senate... Challenger Randall Terry fires off an angry retort citing the Terri Schiavo case.

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[8mmMauser]

Ax Tax...

"There's a lot of Jeff Davises in this county so how do they know which one (is running for office?)" Davis, a 50-year-old Cassadaga resident and political newcomer, said Wednesday.

Davis contends he's commonly known as AxTax. As evidence, he's cited such things as recent checks written to him using the nickname, letters from people who say they know him by the moniker and a TV image of him playing a banjo with an "Ax the Tax" sticker at a Terri Schiavo rally in Pinellas County last year.

Hopeful wants 'AxTax' on ballot

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[8mmMauser]

Anyone hear of fetus farming?? Ping to wagglebee thread on what has happened...

Jill Stanek: Fetus farming shot to hell – where it belongs

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[8mmMauser]

Louis Winnick's fight...with Dr. Death:

Here is another case of a doctor insisting that a patient die. Ping to wagglebee thread.

Doctors Kept Asking To "Let" My Father Die: Wall Street Journalist

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[8mmMauser]

Abraham Cherrix, another look at this boy being forced into perhaps life threatening therapy by a judge...

(July 27, 2006) — Though a Virginia judge has lifted an order requiring a resistant teenager to submit to conventional cancer care, the state is going ahead with a trial on the issue. It is prepared to argue — the lawyers had better be on their game that day — that the public has an interest in insisting this 16-year-old endure chemotherapy rather than the alternative remedies he favors.

Whether he lives or dies doesn't seem the point for Virginia. It's that this teenager does what he's told.

Snip...

This is but the latest instance of government intervening in health issues, and doing so poorly. The Terri Schiavo case is the leading example, but the connecting thread among all the cases is that government seems to cherish its own power more than it respects the rights of individuals. That's the kind of mentality the Framers warned against.

Leave Va. teen alone... Virginia wants to tell a 16-year-old how to treat his cancer

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[8mmMauser]

Haleigh Poutre update...

SPRINGFIELD -- The stepfather of 12-year-old Haleigh Poutre was indicted yesterday on assault and battery charges for allegedly having beaten the girl into a coma.

Stepfather indicted in Poutre coma case... Faces charges from grand jury

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[8mmMauser]

Ping to above on what is happening regarding Haleigh Poutre. Yes, music does wonders, especially good music even when the patient doesn't seem to respond.

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[tutstar]

fyi,

Judge lifts order requiring treatment for teen cancer patient

[8mmMauser]

Thanks for the update!

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[8mmMauser]

In other news, Andrea Yates, perpetrator of five post partum abortions is not guilty by way of insanity.

[floriduh voter]

[floriduh voter]

Jeb Bush can't endorse Jim King and be pro-life. Jim King is demonic and I don't mean maybe.

[floriduh voter]

What about the beneficiary of the Astor fortune? Her son has been neglecting her. The grandson has turned the son in. Mrs. Astor is 104 years old and shame on her son! This was in today's Tampa Tribune.

www.tbo.com