Feeding Tube To Remain. Judge Issues Stay.[Terri Schiavo]

[Salvation]

From Catholic Exchange

The Bishops Speak

Title:	Health Can Only Be Sacrificed for Higher Ends
Author:	Vatican Information Service
Date:	Wednesday, February 23, 2005

John Paul II has written a Message to Bishop Elio Sgreccia, president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, and to participants in a study congress on the theme: "The Quality of Life and the Ethics of Health," being held in the Vatican from February 21 to 23.

The Holy Father writes that "in the first place, it is necessary to recognize the essential quality that distinguishes each human being by the fact of being created in the image and likeness of the Creator Himself. ... This level of dignity and quality belongs to the ontological order and is constitutive of the human person, it endures in every moment of life, from the first instant of conception up to natural death, and it is fully realized in the dimension of eternal life. Consequently, man must be recognized and respected in any condition of health, illness or disability."

"Under pressure from affluent societies," the Pope says, "a notion of the quality of life is being favored which is at the same time both reductive and selective, and which consists in the capacity to enjoy and to experience pleasure, or even in the capacity for self-awareness and participation in social life. As a consequence, any kind of quality of life is denied to human beings not yet or no longer capable of expressing their intelligence and will, and to those no longer capable of enjoying life as a series of sensations and relationships."

Later in his Message, the Pope refers to the moral dimension of the concept of health, "that cannot be overlooked." After recalling the spread of alcoholism, drugs and AIDS, he adds: "How much of life's energy, and how many young people's lives, could be saved and kept healthy if each individual had the moral responsibility to know how to promote better prevention and the conservation of that precious good we call health!

"Of course, health is not an absolute good," John Paul continues, "especially when it is seen as simple physical well-being, mythicized to the point that it restricts or overlooks higher ends, even proposing reasons of health in the refusal of nascent life. This is what happens in so-called 'reproductive health.' How can we not recognize in this a reductive and deviant concept of health?" Health, the Pope highlights, "can only be sacrificed to attain higher ends, as is sometimes asked in service towards God, towards the family, towards our brothers and sisters or towards society as a whole. Health must be guarded and cured as the mental-physical and spiritual equilibrium of the human being. Squandering health because of various disorders, especially those associated with the moral degradation of the individual, represents a serious ethical and social responsibility."

 

[tutstar]

Impeach Judge Greer now up to 818 signatures. Everyone please email this to all your contacts.

[Missouri gal]

blogsforterri.com is raising money to post an ad in the St. Petersburg Times this Sunday. They've raised most of the money, but they need more pledges. Ads like this can be very effective at moving the tide, so it's a worthwhile effort.

They also have the addresses of media for writing letters to the editor.

ConservativePetitions.com has a link for writing the governor and legislators simultaneously.

I sent money to the family's fund this week also. See terrisfight.org for more information.

Terri has been treated like a prisoner at Auschwitz. I will not be silent!!!

[Sun]

Thanx again!!

[Northern Yankee]

That would be nice, but as long as he enjoys judicial protection, he's almost untouchable.

There is no way he is going to escape #1 judge...Our Heavenly Father...Micheal will spend a bleak eternity because I don't think he is the type to repent....

Glad I am not in his shoes... but then again I wouldn't be making such decisions like this.

We can thank God that he has provided us with such faith!

[uvular]

Thanks for the info, 80sm.

Self-inflicted ping to read this afternoon.

Heard Terri's sister on Glenn Beck's show today. She said they do have some circumstantial evidence regarding Michael's actions on the day Terri collapsed, but DA will not investigate. Wonder if family has tried contacting a crime writer to investigate this travesty of justice?

The judge and Michael's attorney stink to high heaven.

[floriduh voter]

Terri and Greer's futures are on the line THIS AFTERNOON.

There are FR guidelines re: posting from this web site but PLEASE, IF JUDGE GREER REJECTS THE SCHINDLERS TODAY AND THE TUBE IS COMING OUT TODAY, go to

www.theempirejournal.com

give or take twenty minutes.

New York Journalists are being read by Florida's journalists, by the USDOJ, HHS, Gov. Bush, Judge Greer bookmarked TEJ, the Fla Legislature has visited.

If Greer turns down Terri's right to live today, THERE WILL EB AN EXCLUSIVE AT TEJ.

[bjs1779]

yes it is..

No it ain't....

"Dr. Hammesfahr revealed that Terri has at least 75% functional brain tissue and that the stories circulating in the media about a head full of fluid "only" are totally false. He has had patients with less brain function doing much more than Terri is doing, and Dr. Hammesfahr believes that Terri is being kept to a lower level of function by her being denied opportunities to do anything, have any rehabilitation, and that she her improvement is being sabotaged by her being kept in isolation,"

Ron Panzer's AUDIO interview with Dr. Hammesfahr who performed tests on Terri for 10 hours.

[newzjunkey]

Maybe we can put "Terri's Tube" on the "Wheel of Fortune" and let the contestants take a spin! Then they get to decide whether she gets the tube kept in or removed the next day. (sarcasm)

It makes as much sense as the courts in the Terri drama.

[MarMema]

Exactly.

tony

[MarMema]

Not to mention Karen Quinlan who turned out (at autopsy)to have an intact cerebral cortex despite their predictions, and had much less function than Terri.

[MarMema]

Dehydrate Judge Greer.

[cymeckajax3]

Could a DA charge the Judge with murder?

[samtheman]

The Empire Journal

[samtheman]

LIFE AND DEATH DECISION TODAY IN COURTROOM OF SCHIAVO JUDGE

[bjs1779]

[Theodore R.]

You know in many ways Michael R. Schiavo has demonstrated total and complete faith -- not in the Almighty of course but in himself, his own ideas, the euthanasia movement, and the conviction that he is "right" no matter what. He is the poster boy of 2005 secular humanism.

[RinkRat23]

"Dr. Hammesfahr revealed that Terri has at least 75% functional brain tissue and that the stories circulating in the media about a head full of fluid "only" are totally false. He has had patients with less brain function doing much more than Terri is doing, and Dr. Hammesfahr believes that Terri is being kept to a lower level of function by her being denied opportunities to do anything, have any rehabilitation, and that she her improvement is being sabotaged by her being kept in isolation,"


And many of those patients even serve as Judges in Florida.

[RinkRat23]

My daughter is going to be 12 years old next month and I often remind her of her less than humble beginnings when her Mother and I had to feed her and wash her and change her diapers. We love her so much that we would do it all again if necessary. Michael is a despicable creature and I am certain that Judgement will be harsh.