Terri on the road to recovery before the second stage began.
Posted on 05/30/2006 11:14:37 AM PDT by KevinNuPac
Yes. That puts Margaret Sanger second to Mao Tse-tung on the all-time mass murderer list, but ahead of Stalin. ("And the hits just keep on comin'.")
Feeding tubes have been around a lot longer than 20 years.
http://www.sptimes.com/2005/03/29/Tampabay/Feeding_tubes_snake_t.shtml
Perhaps you mean antibiotics which have only been around for 70 years or so. I guess by your logic, someone who takes penicillin for bronchitis is being kept alive through "extraordinary" means.
We're past that point. The liberal assault on moral law, the cost pressures due to government interference in medicine, the Death Cult propaganda, and now the loosening of statutory law for organ harvest, are combining to corrupt medical practice and practitioners. No more do doctors take an oath to do no harm. Now they gloss over medical ethics to the point where "bioethics" is virtually a synonym for death.
Of course many doctors and nurses maintain traditional standards and God bless 'em all. But they will be the first to tell you that the profession is rotting at the edges, if not deeper down.
Of course it was an option. The PEG tube was a 1979 improvement in tube feeding, but the technique goes back more than two centuries.
Terri on the road to recovery before the second stage began.
Another reason Terri is a terrible symbol - nobody can agree on her condition. Depending on who you talk to she was somewhere between a vegetable and an elite athlete.
What has "symbol" got to do with it? She was a disabled woman who had as much right to live as anyone else.
Read the first paragraph of this thread. She is being used as a "symbol"
Read the first paragraph of this thread. She is being used as a "symbol"
Read the ongoing discussion. The "first paragraph" you refer to was more than three weeks ago! Even at the beginning, the thread wasn't about symbols. From the start it has been about developments in right-to-life cases (Andrea Clarke, Baby Daniel, Haleigh Poutre, the Terri Schiavo story itself), based on current news and commentary.
I guess we have a different opinion of what extraordinary means are. I don't consider feeding someone through a tube to be extraordinary means. I am up at the nursing home almost everyday to visit my grandmother and see several people who are fed through a tube for whatever reasons. I could not imagine sticking them in a corner and waiting for them to starve to death. And thank God for them, they don't have any family members out to kill them.
Yep. I heard about the CNN poll. Jeb would not be last on the list if he hadn't put Terri last.
South Dakota has figured out this judge stuff. Judges who break the law should not have any immunity. They should be charged and if guilty, give them HARD TIME.
They are terrible symbols of tyranny. She was a lovely person as opposed to the freak she was married to.
That marriage cost her her life.
The prison guards had a contraband for sex racket going with the female prisoners at the FDC.
Cops shooting FBI, not so good.
Crickets chirping from FL AG CHARLIE CRIST. Just like w/the Anderson kid and w/Terri. He's in charge of law enforcement but he works on little things like lowering phone rates. Crist cannot comment on or handle anything bigger than that.
It's great that there are 60 per cent undecided voters in Florida. They aren't so sure about Charlie. It's quite scary, really, that he would be governor. I won't vote for him in any event. EVER.
I tell things as they are without the hyperbole. Directly above your post I posted a photo, one obvious enough that it needs no interpretation to most people. It was two years after her incident.
You can get opinions across the spectrum elsewhere, and here you can get facts and evidence. If you want to really find out what this is all about, read on and learn. You can sip from the firehydrant of truths in the previous monthly threads.
If not, this is not the thread for you.
I don't like the use of symbols. Kevin only mentioned it in passing as I would. Symbols are a technique used by the left and we are not leftist as you can gather from our posts. Terri was an innocent who was intentionally killed just as authorities would have the others mentioned by T'wit also killed. Those are truths.
I know that phrase has been used alot since then. Sometimes, it helps to put trivia on Terri threads because it's hard to think about MURDER all the time.
Poor Terri was murdered. "It's not you, Judge Greer, it's me."
I'd like to end his relationship with my tax dollars.
www.judgegeorgegreer.com
The new convert to Roman Catholic is on the march to unseat Jim King.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Randall Terry hopes northeast Florida voters will not simply focus on the more extreme comments he made as founder of the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue as he campaigns to unseat powerful state Sen. Jim King in the upcoming Republican primary.
Nor does he want them to solely look at his role in the unsuccessful effort last year to reinsert the feeding tube of Terri Schiavo, the severely brain-damaged woman who was at the center of a right-to-die case. He also hopes they can forgive his divorce and 1998 bankruptcy, the latter an effort to avoid paying $1.6 million in court-ordered civil penalties to Planned Parenthood and the National Organization for Women.
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Terry, 47, says he is running because King sided with Democrats to block efforts to reinsert Schiavo's feeding tube, appointed Democrats to committee chairs when he was Senate president and because he pushed for money to pay for the education of illegal immigrants living in Florida. Terry says King is too liberal for the district.
"This election is a referendum on what it means to be a Republican. I am a Ronald Reagan Republican," said Terry, who lost a 1998 primary bid for the U.S. House of Representatives in New York. He moved to Ponte Vedra Beach three years ago.
Anti-Abortion Leader Seeks To Oust Powerful GOP Legislator
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Terri on the road to recovery before the second stage began.
Today, the state Senate Judiciary Committee will hear testimony for and against legalizing physician-assisted suicide in California. It is a topic that has evoked passionate debate, and became a political one when Terry Schiavo's heart-wrenching story was thrust into the national spotlight.
The hearing will not be easy for committee members. With issues as deeply personal and uncomfortable as terminal illness and death, the scrutiny and debate is understandable, and warranted...
The thought of anyone, let alone a physician, helping another end their life seems both outrageous and unethical to many. That view is rooted in religious and professional beliefs that we respect.
But these opponents cannot, and should not, speak for individual patients who are facing impending death.
San Francisco Chronicle: "Politics of death"
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As bioethicist C. Ben Mitchell puts it, the autopsy confirmed “our worst fears.” Terri didn’t die from any illness but “at the hands of her husband and his lawyers.”
As I said, I’m embarrassed about this mistake, but more than that I am angry. It’s not enough that the legal process sentenced her to death, but the media deliberately or negligently got the circumstances of both her life and her death wrong.
As a result, the “culture of death” has taken several steps forward. Instead of giving life the benefit of the doubt, we are all-too-ready to choose death. As Mitchell said, “Terri Schiavo should be alive today and in the loving embrace of her parents.” Instead, she has become a symbol of the “scary place” our culture is headed: a place where everybody is on the lookout for signs of death, not life. And as for those who defended Terri Schiavo and have been pilloried in the media, well, in the cold light of day, we now know we were right after all.
BREAKPOINT: Being had: Another look at Terri Schiavo’s death
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“The use of language is ‘name calling,’” she told her interviewer. “Harpies and witches is what I think they [the Jersey Girls] are, which is why I used those words,” Coulter said of her celebrated comment regarding the widows of certain 9/11 victims. “The entire country is now riveted on the left’s device of using victims to advance their half-baked, unsaleable ideas.” But let’s leave Terri Schiavo out of this, shall we?
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