I've never watched EWTN before but these two upbeat programs that covered Terri may have gotten me hooked to their channel. It will at least be added that to my 'favorites' list.
TRANSCRIPT of the SCHIAVO segment:
[I am including timestamps so if you download the real media file, you can fast forward to specific parts.]
17:07 MODERATOR: We will go now to Father Frank Pavone, He's the national director of the priests for life 17:13 and he's going to join us, talking again about Terri Schiavo, whos really in a state, well, judicial state sanctioned act. 17:21 She'll be forced to starve to death, and Father Frank, welcome to Life on the Rock. 17:26 Father Frank: Thank you, its good to be with you. 17:28 Moderator: hey, Father Frank, first of all, could you kind of give us a status, 17:34 I know certainly within the last couple weeks, you have seen Terri herself? 17:38 When you walk in the room, when you are there with her, 17:40 tell us a little bit about what happens... 17:44 Father Frank: Yes, well I visited Terri for the 2nd time Sunday February 6th. 17:50 She is VERY responsive, very alert, we spoke with her, I was with her parents 17:56 and she follows everything that is happening, with her eyes, 17:59 she smiles, her dad leaned over and kissed her, and she returned the kiss, 17:04 she tried to vocalize, she cannot pronounce the words, 18:07 but you can hear her voice, trying to form words and sentences, 18:14 Terri is... what most people dont understand, is Terri is HEALTHY. 18:18 She has suffered a brain injury, but she is NOT a dying patient, 18:21 she is not in a coma she is not hooked up to life support, 18:26 she has a small simple feeding tube which sustains her nourishment, 18:31 she has NOT requested death or suicide, and unfortunately 18:36 as you said, she's under this THREAT of death, which 18:40 we'll talk about in a moment. But she is 18:43 AMAZINGLY responsive. I prayed with her, and she closed her eyes 18:47 during the prayer, and then opened her eyes up again. 18:50 And I told her many many people, Terri 18:53 are thinking about you and praying for you 18:55 and you have lots of friends around the country. 18:58 MODERATOR: Now what can, in particular, young people, they hear about this type of thing, and you also hear the other side saying, quote unquote, 19:08 that this is an act of MERCY, on their part, she's been this way for TWELVE years... 19:13 I think young people can get confused when they hear stuff like that, 19:15 that she is in this 19:18 perpetual vegetative state... that she's in a coma... 19:21 and its been going on for 12 years... and it would be an act 19:25 of mercy to, quote unquote "let her end her life" ... 19:28 How do young people process that, and what can they 19:31 then do? Father Pavone: Well first of all in regard to Terri herself, 19:36 her life can still be saved, because there are a lot of things that can still happen 19:40 basically right now centered in the state of Florida, 19:44 and therefore anybody who knows people in Florida, 19:46 should urge them to contact the Governor, and also their state legislators in Florida, 19:52 and ask them to do everything possible to save Terri's life. 19:56 Now the legal situation is pretty complicated, 19:59 but the bottom line is, that things can still be done. 20:02 And if people want to get updates and 20:06 action alerts as things develop, especially over the next few weeks, 20:09 then they can go to our website at priestsforlife.org 20:12 they can read about what's currently going on, 20:16 and they can sign up to get updates, because there may be 20:18 some prayer vigils taking place, in florida and things like that. 20:21 MODERATOR: What do you think of, and where you see this, perhaps euthanasia itself, 20:28 going in this country, and is this something we need to be 20:31 concerned about? In my mind, it seems like 20:33 there is already a really structure-ized, 20:36 like passive euthanasia thats out there already. 20:39 Do we need to be worried about this? 20:41 Father Pavone: Well, very much so, 20:43 and Terri's case is going to decide that question that you just raised, 20:46 because, if SHE can be put to death, than ANYONE who 20:50 somebody ELSE says is not happy, because remember, Terri is not complaining, 20:57 She's not saying she's not happy, and, you know, its a terrible act of 21:01 judgemental superiority when we look at somebody else life and we say 21:05 oh well, they really shouldn't be in that situation. 21:09 Who are we to decide what another person's happiness, or value is? 21:14 And thats the crux of the matter, that we DONT decide that. 21:17 Because IF someone like Terri can be killed, 21:20 then thats going to affect THOUSANDS of others, 21:24 who, just because someone else says they're not 21:26 productive, they're not valuable, 21:29 and if she can be killed because of what WE think is her suffering, 21:32 well then so can a teenager who has just flunked a course, 21:36 got kicked off the football team, 21:38 lost his girlfriend... you know, to him, the world is falling apart 21:41 And you know, does HE have a right to end his suffering by ending his life? 21:45 We usually have suicide hotlines and councelors ready 21:49 to help a person like that. And, ah, so we're at a crossroads here, 21:55 there's no question about it. 21:57 Moderator: Yes it certainly is, I wanted... Thank you Father Frank. First of all, thank you Father Frank for joining us We appreciate it, and all of you out there, we have to get down on our knees, its lent, a time of prayer... pennance, and charity, and I think the greatest act of charity we could give to Terri is that she's allowed to live. 22:14 Moderator: Its UNBELIEVABLE to me how, in this "civilized country" (he makes double quote signs with his fingers) that we live in, that this could really happen here, and to have her spouse pull that thing out, and they're not going to FEED her. She's not going to die of like a brain hemmorage, or cancer that's going to consume her somehow, she's going to SLOWLY die over time. Dehydrate, and starve to death. Its really just mind boggling. 22:36 Moderator: If you want to know what you can do specifically, the schindlers who are Terri's parents, they have a webpage, terri's fight dot org. (he spells it out and it is shown on screen) Go onto that, and you'll get all kinds of information, and I know even today [probably taped Thursday the 17th] there was a news conference with the father, mister Schindler, who is fighting to save, as any man would, please god, his own daughter, he said that back in 2000, he goes, I was going to give every ounce of energy I had to save her life, and he says I still have a lot of ounces left, and I'm going to do it. This TUESDAY [Feb 22nd] is D-Day for Terri and her family. 23:21 (he turns to 2nd moderator) If you wanted to comment on that? 2nd Moderator: Yes, well we all need to pray, it seem like.. well is this really at THAT point? God is great, and he needs intervention to change hearts. 23:30 1st Moderator: You know theres a lot of people praying for the conversion of her estranged husband, that is Michael Schiavo, and we want to pray as well that he might see the light here, and that the lord might change his heart. So keep that in mind, We're going to be back in just a minute here, to the Rock House. [he changes the subject] [He gives their call-in number. Apparently whenever this is shown the 1st time on Thursday evenings, it is live and you can call in: 1-800-221-9460 and he gave their email: rock@ewtn.com ] 24:20 ...END OF SEGMENT
SOMEONE ASKED ABOUT SAVING THE BROADCAST TO A FILE: I tried a couple of ways but the files I ended up with seemed corrupt. Maybe write to rock@ewtn and ask them to SAVE that whole broadcast somewhere. They might also be willing to clip out just the SCHIAVO segment and place THAT to a separate file.
