Posted on 01/31/2005 9:14:49 PM PST by TAdams8591
*Michael, HAVE A HEART !!!!!For Valentines Day give Terri back to her MOM & DAD, The Schindlers!!!!!!!!*
The Terri Schindler Schiavo Daily Threads are created month to month as we watch local and national news regarding Terri and her family.
Since Terri's supporters are in every time zone, you may see something FIRST. Please share news with us that you don't see here already. Now, why would you want to do that? Terri's Daily Thread for September/October of 2004 was viewed over 15,000 times. Terri's November Daily Thread was viewed over 6,000 times. December's thread is over 3,000 views. January 2005 Daily Thread was a RECORD HIGH!!!!!!! 15, 103 VIEWS!!!!!!
More and more good folks are finding out about Terri and that judicial tyranny would take her life, but for lots and lots of prayer and non-stop lobbying of relatives, friends, clergy, our leaders, the media, a passerby, a cashier - ANYONE who you feel comfortable chatting with.
Folks always want to know how can this be in America or on earth for that matter? Unfortunately, this is really happening to an innocent woman who just celebrated her 41st birthday. She's not the only one but she's the one with devoted parents and siblings who knows what's in Terri's heart. Terri has a strong will to live. That's apparent. It's been 14 years.
Besides, feeding tubes have been around practically since the Civil War. They are not high tech devices. Terri is "not hooked up to machines". Her feeding tube is the diameter of a piece of spaghetti.
Talkin' about Terri is the best way to lobby for her. It is a salespitch to save her life and subsequently, many lives. If you've never sold anything in your life, START NOW. START WITH TERRI.
See Terri's flash movies if you need more information. You can see for yourself that's she's interactive and follows the doctor's instructions.
Visit: http://www.terrisfight.org
NOTE: Terri's December Dailies are noted as a source above. There are lots of important links at the very top of that thread. If you missed Terri's Celebration of Life, you can click on it from there.
AGAIN WE HAVE A NEW RECORD: 15,103 views on the tote board for the Terri Schindler Schiavo January Daily Thread!
The most significant event in Terri's case in January, was the Supreme's Courts refusal to hear Governor Jeb Bush's appeal, after the Florida State Legislature struck down Terri's Law. This once again places Terri's life in extreme jeopardy, though there are other issues regarding her case before the court.
Stop trying to poison the thread.
You mean the one who threatened to sue me if her material is posted to FR?
The federal government has a vested interest in protecting the lives of its citizenry.
(sigh)
I understand. But this is important stuff. Got any wiggle room? Any friendly compromise? I'll be the beer-fetcher. Let's just sort it out.
We need your support. There was a misunderstand caused by one of your admin moderators. Considering the situation of what is going on right now with Terri it wasn't helpful.
So therefore if the feds passed a law banning Big Macs, that would be OK, because it would protect our lives. Once again, be careful what you ask for.
I'm not talking about assumed hazard. I'm talking about direct hazard. There is a MAJOR difference.
I'll take a pitcher of the best beer ya got.
To liberals, there is no difference. This is a state matter.
Black and Tans, of course. Waiting for Jim to join in so this can all be sorted. ;-)
Sorry, you'll have to talk to the person threatening the lawsuit.
Not true. There are many liberals on the side of protecting the lives of society's weakest members. We have to try to drop our own political leanings and see that this death crap is turning epidemic before our eyes. The judges who have ordered this young woman dead are Republicans. We have all screwed up badly.
Indeed the FL Republican judges have proved themselves in this case indistinguishable from the Democrats.
Please hear me out. This is not a lefty issue or a righty issue. This is a human rights issue. When we can all just drop our affilliations and do what's best for all, we'll get more done.
What is happening in Florida is that the state is presuming the posture of disposing of unwanted people as an authority. This offends every leaning from left to right and interrupts everyone's constitutionally guaranteed rights to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.
Both sides of the political coin have everything to lose. While it may be fun to debate and argue on other matters, this one should be an absolute conduit for one and all. No one deserves this kind of treatment.
In my eyes, this is so not a political chip but one of human rights and the inherent rights to live ones own life. I don't mean to spit. I just think we can all agree on this one. That's all.
Is that your way of telling us you're the moderator that thought the empire journal wasn't a real news source??
Bump.
You put things into words the way I can never do sometimes. I'm with you 100%. This has been where I have been coming from since the get go.. both human rights and criminal issues at the same time. We all come from different walks of life and are sticking up for Terri.
Citing Kansas case, Terri Schiavo's parents seek more MD tests
By MITCH STACY Associated Press Writer
February 17, 2005
CLEARWATER, Fla.- The parents of a severely brain-damaged woman at the center of a contentious right-to-die case said Thursday they will ask a judge to delay the removal of her feeding tube so more medical tests can be performed to better determine her condition.
An attorney for Bob and Mary Schindler said new medical technology could better assess Terri Schiavo's brain activity and those tests should be done before her husband is allowed to order the removal of the feeding tube keeping her alive.
With other legal options running out, the attorney, David Gibbs III, said he will file a motion Monday asking Circuit Judge George Greer to allow the tests. Also Monday, a hearing is scheduled in which Gibbs will ask the judge to extend a court-ordered stay set to expire Tuesday.
Barring any more court-ordered delays, the tube could be removed sometime after Tuesday. She could live for 10 days to two weeks afterward.
"I think the bottom line is that Terri deserves to get these tests," Bob Schindler said. "It would be unconscionable for Judge Greer or any other judge to order her death without these tests."
The Schindlers have been fighting their son-in-law, Michael Schiavo, in court for years over what should happen to their daughter. He contends his 41-year-old wife who suffered severe brain damage 15 years ago would not want to be kept alive artificially; her parents contend she had no such death wish and could get better with therapy.
The Schindlers also dispute that she is in what the court has determined is a persistent vegetative state. They say she laughs, reacts to them and tries to speak.
The family pointed to recent news that a woman left in a coma 20 years ago in a car accident recently began to speak. Sarah Scantlin of Hutchinson, Kan., began to speak after years of only being able to communicate in the simplest ways.
They also point to new medical research published in the journal Neurology showing brain scans of some severely brain-damaged patients prompted a pattern of brain activity similar to that of healthy people.
Michael Schiavo's attorney, George Felos, said the Scantlin case and the medical study don't apply to Terri Schiavo because tests have already shown that she "is in a vegetative condition and has no consciousness."
"These are frivolous, last-ditch efforts on the part of the parents," Felos said.
The Schindlers' other legal options have dwindled in recent weeks. Gibbs plans appeals on some other issues, but state courts have consistently ruled against the parents.
The family has again turned to Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry to organize a public relations campaign that includes demonstrations and lobbying of Gov. Jeb Bush and lawmakers to intervene to save the woman's life. He said they also plan to picket Michael Schiavo's home and workplace.
The Florida Legislature intervened in the case in 2003 with a hastily passed law allowing Bush to order the feedings restored six days after Michael Schiavo had them stopped. That law was subsequently struck down as unconstitutional.
Terri Schiavo, who lives in a Pinellas Park hospice and grew up in the Philadelphia suburb of Huntingdon Valley, Pa., was left brain-damaged after her heart stopped beating temporarily in 1990 due to a chemical imbalance. She can breathe on her own but is dependent on a feeding tube for nutrition and hydration.
http://www.tcpalm.com/tcp/home/article/0,1651,TCP_996_3556646,00.html
And you think there will be recourse with the federal government, which has already declared that women have the right to dispose of unwanted people gestating within their bodies?
Millions of babies have died because abortion went from being a state issue to a federal one because of judicial activism. I would behoove you to think twice about trying to make Terri's case a federal one, given the fact that the Supreme Court basically consists of Sandra Day O'Connor deciding what is constitutional on any given case.
A message for those weary from the judicial plan to murder an innocent person
Q: What is the shortest chapter in the Bible?
A: Psalms 117
Q: What is the longest chapter in the Bible?
A: Psalms 119
Q: Which chapter is in the center of the Bible?
A: Psalms 118
Fact: There are 594 chapters before Psalms 118
Fact: There are 594 chapters after Psalms 118
Add these numbers up and you get 1188.
Q: What is the center verse in the Bible?
A: Psalms 118:8
Q: Does this verse say something significant about God's perfect will for our lives?
The next time someone says they would like to find
God's perfect will for their lives and that they want to
be in the center of His will, just send them to the
center of His Word!
Psalms 118:8
"It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man."
Now isn't that odd how this worked out (or was God in the center of it)?
When things get tough, always remember...
Faith doesn't get you around trouble, it gets you through it !!
God Bless You!
I will respond to that, even though I said I would not discuss the subject any longer on this thread, since you have levelled a charge against me. I am not an FR moderator, I have never been an FR moderator, I have never requested to be an FR moderator, nor have I ever been asked to be an FR moderator. Quite frankly, I don't have the patience or pain threshhold for the job, and would probably ban everyone but Dog Gone and Okie01 by the time I was done.
Having said that, I have a lot of respect for the moderators and JimRob for the job they do moderating this site. Their job is thankless. One only needs to look at the forum cesspools around the 'net to see what happens when there are not some set of rules for discourse on a forum. And there are a lot of maladjusted folks who scream about their First Amendment rights being violated because they cannot post what they want, where they want, whenever they want on FR ... all the while oblivous to the other section of the First Amendment that enumerates the right to freedom of association. They glom onto FR because they get visibility here - and then rip JimRob because the rules that have elevated FR to that level of visibility are too restrictive for them. 'nuff said.
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