Posted on 10/22/2003 7:58:52 PM PDT by cpforlife.org
URGENT - ACTION NEEDED AT ONCE While many have heard that Terri Schiavo's feeding tube has been re-inserted, her life is in eminent danger. Michael Schiavo is still her legal guardian. The would-be murderer is responsible for guarding his own victim! In addition when Terri was moved from hospice, he immediately blocked visitation rights at the hospital for her parents, siblings and family priest - the only source of Terri's comfort, love and joy. An emergency motion ordered visitation restored for the family but it was not received in the attorney's offices until 5:15PM today. By the time the family was able to get down to the hospital, her husband had removed her from the hospital and taken to an "undisclosed location" - we are told perhaps back to hospice.
In any case, the family has not been informed - they do not know her medical condition or whether the feeding tube has been reinstated or not. An IV was inserted at approximately 9:30 last night. This is a woman starved for 7 days with no food or water yet Michael has the audacity to remove her from the hospital care!
It is an outrage that Michael Schiavo and his attorney feel they can spit in the face of the governor, the Fl House and Senate - and trample Terri's rights with absolutely no regard for her health, happines or wishes.
Complaints have been filed through the Department of Health and Human Services yet nothing is being done to protect Terri from physical harm or to assure her rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Please take a moment and file your complaint with the Office of Civil Rights. Click here for the form: Discrimination Complaint Form or go to: http://hhs.gov/ocr/discrimhowtofile.html You can also file your complaint by email at OCRcomplaint@hhs.gov or call the District Office in Atlanta: Roosevelt Freeman, 404 562-7886. Tell them to immediately act and remove her care/custody from Michael.
In addition, please contact your US Congressman and ask him to investigate why the Department of Justice is not protecting Terri's civil rights as a disabled American and further request that the Department of Health and Human Services Civil Rights Office act at once to protect her.
Go to our website to read the formal letters of complaint filed by Children of God for Life, the family and medical personnel through Delegate Robert Marshall with Attorney General Ashcroft, the House Judiciary Committee and President Bush, asking for immediate federal intervention. You should read the facts to help explain the problem to your Congressmen. www.cogforlife.org/schiavo.htm
We will keep the site updated daily with new developments until Terri is safe and her rights guaranteed by the US Constitution and the State of Florida are upheld! God bless, Debi Vinnedge, Executive Director Children of God for LIfe
In the beginning, I briefly scanned a few of the posts and mistakenly surmised that this was a loving husband in battle with his "brain-dead" wife's parents over whether to keep her alive by artificial means.
A more in-depth reading indicated that there is a strong possibility that the husband was responsible for his wife's physical injuries and that he has done everything possible to keep the hounds at bay in the hope that she would die.
IMHO, he has abused his right as her legal guardian by denying her any rehabilitation -- in spite of the fact that he won a huge monetary award through the courts to cover such expenses.
He has also made certain that her medical records are available only to him and the select few he allows. There is a report that the medical records indicate broken ribs and a neck injury that might have been caused by strangulation.
I think you should allow for the possibility that Terri's life or death is dependent on the intervention of God's servants.
Its easy to look at th e inside frome the outside....what did M shialvo do to make Terry come to this state?
10 freekin years? of denial?
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Someone who had her best interest at heart wouldn't attempt to suppress evidence of her reacting to her parents.
I wish you had asked this of someone more knowledgeable of the subject, someone who has followed this from the beginning. I read something about some organization reporting prior domestic violence being looked into more closely.
But you didn't answer my question. Your first statement on this thread stated that her life was in God's hands, not ours -- implying that we should back off and let God's will be done.
My question to you was that perhaps it is God's will that we intervene. Do you know what God's will is in this situation? (My few prayers never get direct answers so far as I can tell, but maybe yours do?)
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That's about how I have it figured. Her husband appears indifferent. Put her in the care of here original family who seem genuinely concerned for her. That seems the obvious answer to everybody's problem. However, here husband and the lawyers have various intnese investments in not allowing that simple solution.
Thank you for saying that. Let's roll . . . for life!
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I sure can't argue with that kind og logic.
That's true. When will the authorities step forward and remove Michael Shiavo and his evil twin from the picture?
News Flash!!! Terri wasn't "dying" until her "loving" husband decided to pull out her feeding tube and stop giving her water.
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