Posted on 11/07/2003 7:54:47 PM PST by sweetliberty
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Link to article on Michael Schiavo from hometown newspaper, information on death by starvation and dehydration, information on hospice eligibility and hospice and medicare/medicaid fraud, e-mail address for Judge Greer, transcript of Larry King Live interview with Michael Schiavo and George Felos, Terri's address at the hospice and the address for the foundation, to send cards for Terri's birthday (December 3), transcript of O'Reilly interview with Kate Adamson, e-mail addresses for Florida legislature, transcript of Abrams Report interview with George Felos and Pam Anderson, transcription of Terri's bone scan, legalese for dummies version of Gov. Bush's motion to dismiss Sciavo's suit against the Constitutionality of Terri's Law, link to FatherOfLiberty's research on HBOT (Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy), links to ACLJ involvement in Schiavo case and Father Rob Johansen's daily update.
There are four other relevant posts that I want to highlight here in case anyone missed them or didn't get pinged. These are a general Terri thread troll alert, an especially thoughtful post about the sincere effort that FReepers are making in Terri's behalf, the Father's Love Letter , and remarks made by Jim Robinson on this issue and reposted here by lonevoice.
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This thread serves as a place for posting all new general information and references, along with links following Terri's case, plus information on cable news and talk radio shows dealing with the issue, court cases and press releases. This is also the place to post contact information, prayers and general discussion.
If you have something that qualifies as BREAKING NEWS or FRONT PAGE NEWS, please post it on a separate thread in that category in order to give it maximum exposure and then post a link to the article/thread here so that it will be included in the next update of links. Also, if you post links to articles from original sources and there is also a thread on FR, please link to the FR thread. Many original links become corrupt over time and we want to be able to access the information at will.
There was a tremendous amount of information posted on the previous thread. For anyone who hasn't been following the daily threads, links to relevant posts and information from the previous thread are contained in the body of the present one. I have found that very helpful in trying to find something later. You people are doing a spectacular job of getting information out and also in helping to keep all of us updated here. What a great joint effort. This fight, to me, illustrates beautifully what Free Republic is about and what it means to be a FReeper. Way to go FRiends. Keep up the good work!
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Pro-Life Group Questions 'Quality of Life' Premise in Schiavo Case
Judge Lets Parents Challenge Custody of Terri Schiavo
Dean blasts governor over Schiavo case
Husband Must Defend His Guardianship of Terri Schiavo
Judge Bans Terri Schiavo's Parents From Legal Battle
Dean 'Appalled' That Florida Lawmakers Saved Schiavo
A Woman's Life Versus an Inept Press (Nat Hentoff on Terri Schiavo
Terri Schiavo Case: Gov. Bush Asks To Meet New Guardian
Terri Schiavo Case: Creditable Witnesses & the 1st Guardian
Judge Rejects Bush Effort in Schiavo Case
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Schiavo action disrespects democracy, family
Guest opinion: Gema Hernandez
Published by news-press.com on November 8, 2003
Many articles have been published about Terri Schiavo and Gov. Jeb Bushs intervention in preventing an individual her right to die with dignity, but none of the articles has addressed a more troubling situation for our state and for our nation: that of imposing a personal belief on all the citizens of the state.
Molding public policy or ignoring established public policies for the sake of a personal belief is not the American way. This is troubling because our country just fought a war for the sake of democracy, and in a democratic system the needs of the many supercede the need of the one, particularly if that one is a governor elected to represent the wishes and desires of many people. Jebs actions not only blur the separation of church dogma and state, but also fuse the three branches of government into one, the executive branch eliminating the checks and balances established by our Constitution and weakening our already wounded judicial process.
The decision to extend the dying process is incomprehensible because it goes against the Republican partys basic core values: less government interference, more personal responsibility and support of family values.
Now government is interfering more and more in personal and private decisions to a point that it is up to the government and not the family or the individual to decide when a person like Terri should live or die. His decision has now created another ward of the state in an institutional care situation rather than in a community care situation like he said he favors. This decision has also removed all financial responsibility from the family, placing the financial cost in the hands of the state and creating a third contradiction. Most importantly, it redefines what constitutes a family by negating the rights of the husband who, with the wife, forms the essence of the American nuclear family.
Once a man and a woman get married, in the words of the church, the IRS and all civil institutions, a family is formed, for this man this woman will abandon her parents. Therefore, Jebs actions in support of the parents bring new meaning of what constitutes a family, and this meaning excludes husbands or wives in favor of parents. Jebs actions against the wishes of the husband and the courts once again contradict his preaching, presenting a fourth contradiction between actions and words in the lives of politicians.
Yes, the dangers of his actions go beyond the obvious. Privacy rights are becoming an endangered species and our right to die with dignity is the first casualty.
Dr. Gema G Hernandez is former secretary of the department of elder affairs.
She lives at Fort Myers Beach.
Can someone please tell me how a person who supposedly cannot feel, hear, or see anything can " suffer"???????Felos is wicked to the core!!!!!!!!
It figures the Death Brigade would also infiltrate the Dept. of Elder Affairs. I'd place bets that they're in Child Protective Services, too.
Before this is over with - and for safety's and survival's sake - every relevant hospital, nursing home, HMO and government agency will have to be investigated for Death Culture connections.
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