Terri on the road to recovery before the second stage began.
Posted on 05/30/2006 11:14:37 AM PDT by 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
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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