Posted on 02/24/2005 8:38:06 PM PST by Deo volente
VATICAN CITY, FEB. 24, 2005 (Zenit.org).- A Vatican official launched an appeal to save Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged Florida woman whose husband wants her off life-support care.
On Wednesday a Florida judge ordered the tube delivering food and water to Schiavo kept in place another 48 hours.
Pinellas County Circuit Judge George Greer said he needed time to consider legal challenges raised by the woman's parents, including the possibility that her husband, Michael Schiavo, was unfit to act as her guardian.
In statements on Vatican Radio, Cardinal Renato Martino, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, said: "If Mr. Schiavo succeeds legally in causing the death of his wife, this not only would be tragic in itself, but would be a grave step toward the legal approval of euthanasia in the United States."
He added: "I would like to remind everyone in this connection, about all that the Holy Father has said in past days to the Pontifical Academy for Life, confirming that the quality of life is not interpreted as economic success, beauty and physical pleasure, but consists in the supreme dignity of the creature made in the image and likeness of God.
"No one can be the arbiter of life except God himself."
There's an even more official statement. The Holy Father's comments, on PVS and the withholding of food and water, can be found at this site:
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/speeches/2004/march/documents/hf_jp-ii_spe_20040320_congress-fiamc_en.html
Very well put! The law has been perverted inorder to move the social acceptance to euthanasia. The same tactics here as the effort to move the social acceptace to gay marriage.
Conflict of interest---Schiavo has a legal wife and a de facto wife. Two wives; it doesn't get any more conflicted!
He should not have the powers and privileges of a husband to Terri, when he has another woman in the role of wife, and mother of his children besides. There are some murky factors in this case (for some people), but this much is crystal clear. The marriage bond that made him Terri's next-of-kin, he severed when he took another woman as a wife.
I have been considering some painting work, making gifs to post here. Death with Dignity showing exactly the opposite in a picture, for instance.
BTTT!
I'll ping in the morning!
It was feeding tubes, left in place to deliver the anticonvulsants while the patient was dehydrated to death from not using it for food or water.
"The Court said Mr. Brophy's G-tube could be removed or clamped, yet neither was done. The tube remained in place, but food was withheld. When he began having seizures, anticonvulsant medication was administered via the tube, as were antacids to prevent hemorrhaging and laxatives to make him more "comfortable" as he died."
Some one get me a ride and I'll join in.
They dehydrate him and his stomach lining dries out, so to prevent hemorrhaging they send antacids in via the feeding tube. A true circus. Prevent hemorrhage while you are killing someone.
This is not only perversion it is sadistic perversion. I think the judge who ordered that should be made to crawl on the ground while a dominatrix in leathers whips him around the room and orders him to bark like a dog and lick her boots.
They're a piece of work, for sure.
Marmema, I haven't seen you for ages. How are you?
"Some proponents of imposed death suggest that, because death by dehydration and starvation is painful to suffer, ugly to watch and takes so long, it would be more "merciful" to reach the same deliberate end via lethal injection. They speciously frame the debate in terms of choosing the lesser of two evils: dehydration or lethal injection (in essence, death or death—some choice!)"
Good, and yourself?
I'm good, can't sleep though. Insomnia runs in my family.
Thanks for your efforts re: Terri!
Same to ya!
Did it ever cross your mind to just....say...NOT GO TO SEE THE MOVIE if you disagree with its content. Yea, your pictures will help, I'm sure!
Have the ultimate euthanizing convenience parlor: a picture of a euthanizing parlor with a drive up window. Have a reader board saying: "Relieve just a shot away." Show a Dr. Kevorkian looking goon in the drive up window with syringe in hand. Show a little girl holding a doll and leaning out the car window with her arm out. Caption: "Drive-in euthanization for future generations."
Lobby a boycott. It's a novel concept that has withstood the test of time.
Did you see the ones on my FR page? What did you think of them?
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