Posted on 02/20/2005 5:52:01 PM PST by bjs1779
...Mr Schiavo, who lives with a girlfriend by whom he has two children, plans to withdraw the gastric tube through which his wife is fed when a temporary court order barring him expires tomorrow. He insists that his wife once told him that she would not want to be kept alive should she ever suffer brain damage, although he recalled the conversation three years after her collapse and only after winning $1 million in medical negligence damages relating to her early care....
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I do not know any of the specifics. Wish I did. Keep calling, writing, and most importantly, have everyone you know say a prayer for Terri. If we could get this whole nation to pray, it would be wonderful!
You are asking the technically challenged for help? I'll ping some others who surely have a few tricks they can teach you.
I am, and I just emailed Jeb Bush again. BTTT!
Thanks. I'm not only technically challenged. I'm socially challenged. LOL
How confirmable is its authenticity? We don't want to get Rathergated.
Keep the e-mails going for this poor girl and her family! I know Gov. Bush is doing all he thinks he can, but I pray to God that there will be a way to save her life. That miserable excuse of an ex-husband of hers should have no say in any decisions concerning her! And especially in light of the other woman in a coma who just "woke" up. Who knows what might happen, and no one should be able to play God with Terri's life!
I'm pretty sure it's reliable. The Schindlers aren't the types who would stoop to forgery. At any rate, I will check it out with a few sources who are in a better position to know.
Dear Governor Bush, Please give Terri protective custody from those who want her dead. She is NOT in a vegitative state - in a coma - or on life support. Her feeding tube was inserted as a matter of convenience to save on cost for her care.
God help you to make the right decision that is in your power to make. If this were your child - you would make that decision.
What harm is there for Terri to live? She has suffered from lack of therapy and common decency. We would not allow a dog to be treated like Terri has been treated.
My heart is breaking over what is happening in our state. Please correct this horrible situation. We are all praying that you will stand up to the task.
I voted for you and would appreciate a reply to my email.
Sincerely,
I signed my name and address
Maybe so, but there are people who think they can pray and be done with it. And this is a deadly danger to the conservative cause. Too often, prayer-only can be an excuse for cowardice and inaction.
After all, if prayer were all that mattered, there would be no need to do anything for any reason.
I'm also reminded of a comment that Lincoln supposedly made about the Civil War: "I would like to have God on my side, but I must have Kentucky."
Goodnight Terri prayer!
G-DDAMMIT, the right-wing bloggers SHOULD BE ALL OVER THIS STORY. Instead, they spend too much time talking about THEMSELVES!!!!!! GET SERIOUS, GUYS!!!!!!
The better term to describe what Terri's two-timing-father-of-two-bastard-children-possible-BOTCHED-ATTEMPTED-MURDERER-not-legally-qualified-guardian-husband Michael is doing is
PRE-MEDITATED MURDER!!!
Thanks. I am making calls and sending emails.
And praying and asking others to pray, too.
I will Email Jeb again as well, and my Prayers continue Daily for our dear Terri. Hear all our Prayers for Your daughter, O Lord, and Deliver her from her enemies Once Again!
Actually I was thinking out loud when I wrote that. Because I don't know if there will be any footage but I thought there should be.
The thing to do here is, first face it, she's not going to die right away. As I understand it, they are removing her feeding tube. So she must die of starvation. It took my father, who was in a complete coma, a week to die and he was a mess, after they removed his feeding tube.
Someone, perhaps a clandestine medical person, should get a camera in there and get some video/pics of her. Eventually she's going to shrivel up amd who knows what else, get catatonic. Starving hurts. Perhaps she'll start to moan. Even in her current state the difference would be obvious.
Plays the video of her now compared to the suffering she endures by starving for the liberal public.
I bet they'd get a court order real quick to put that feeding tube back in.
Yes I read your warning that lovely husband won't allow cameras. Hey, they make real little cameras you can wear on your hat. I'm betting something like this happens.
That's great to hear!
God bless!!!
My father did NOT have his feeding tube removed. The hospital would not do it. He lived a week after his heart attack while he was in a coma with no brain activity. But he DID have a feeding tube. We were not even asked if we wanted to remove his feeding tube so I don't know how this woman's husband gets to demand this.
Creator God, Your Word teaches of the woman who continually came before the Judge for justice ... she was sent away time and again, but she would not relent. Bring forth that Judge for this mother's child, O God ... let him be so weary of the appearing of Terri's parents that he will grant the justice that they have long sought. Show Yourself in a mighty way, Merciful Father, that Your children may rejoice that the Righteous Judge of the Universe has heard the cries for this wounded woman ... set her free from the evil that binds her. Vindicate the love of mother and father and sister and brother. Thunder upon the people that You are God, and that in Your hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind. Job 12:10.
Sovereign Lord, we no longer know what to do, yet even in our inability, You have provided. Grace the words of her attorneys as they again approach the bench today ... move within the governments of men to have compassion and protection for the least among us ... burden our hearts as never before to cry out before the Throne of Grace on Terri's behalf ... totally and utterly destroy the Merchants of Death. May each minute seem like an eternity to each one who wishes the death of this wounded woman ... pierce their stony hearts and replace their hatred with dreadful realization of what they are about to do ... may they repent while there is still time.
Surround Terri's family with renewed strength and energy ... may Godly grace continue to emanate from a family whose only desire is to care for their own. We echo their prayer ... we seek to save her life, Merciful Father, but of ourselves, we are unable. Rescue her, O God, in the Name of Jesus, the Christ, we pray, Amen ...
I did get our entire church to pray for her this morning.
Pegita is right, this is a spiritual war. And I don't know what God's plans are for Terri, but I know He is loving and merciful, and may His will be done.
I'm holding onto the belief that Christ will be with her and not allow her to suffer.
Oh you are too much. I was composing my post before yours was up. And then here you are.
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