Posted on 03/26/2005 7:20:40 PM PST by EveningStar
Bob and Mary Schindler, both practicing Catholics, urged dozens of supporters gathered outside the Florida hospice where Schiavo is being cared for to go home for Easter.
"The family would request that everyone go home, be with your children, hold them close and share every moment you have with them," said Brother Paul O'Donnell, a Franciscan monk who is a spiritual adviser to the Schindlers.
It was not clear if the Schindlers had finally abandoned all legal avenues in their fight to restart their 41-year-old daughter's feeding, a cause that embroiled the Florida legislature, the U.S. Congress and President Bush.
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She has received communion prior to removal of the tube. She has also received last rites.
Go to hemlock.org and you will see this:
You have reached the web site for End-of-Life Choices and Compassion In Dying.
It's still the Hemlock Society in prettier clothing.
Chad-- I think we're the crazy ones...wandering around out here amongst the ghouls, instead of hiding in the shopping mall. :-)
Tell me your position on every political topic. Here come the government agents to demand it...and you can't refuse.
Now go out and buy a gun and carry it. You have to.
The Constitution guarantees Freedom of Speech, not the Freedom to Keep Quiet.
The Constitution guarantees Right to Keep and Bear Arms, not the right NOT to do so.
OR are you willing to rethink your position, which would overturn the foundations of our great republic?
Fortunately, I think my parents are a lot more loving than that.
Today is Easter. So do you think its OK to deny her Holy Communion on Easter. To Catholics as to many Christians Easter is our Holiest day. Holy Communion is a Sacrament. They are denying her right to Religious freedom. Where are all the people who have posted that Killing Terri is OK because they are following the "LAW". Well, denying Terri receiving a Sacrament of the Church is violating the 1st Amendment of the US Constitution.
I grant this is speculation -- my comments regarding any future marital status for Michael are driven by disgust and disillusionment with almost everyone involved in this sordid case.
What has been done to Terri is evil, and sooner or later, the facts will come out. What Michael Shiavo has done in denying Terri therapy, and the chance to live a full life, is evil, What Judge Greer has done to deny Terri the chance to have legal representation and to grant a new hearing based on new evidence is evil.
There is no question that this is eugenics at work in America. But by throwing around the word "Nazi" willy nilly, you diminish the argument, and anything rational you have to say will be dismissed.
If you are insistent on using the word at the expense of your own, and all the rest of our arguments that what has happened here is abominable, go ahead.
Just keep in mind that in your stubbornness and extremist rhetoric, you have hurt your own cause, and the cause of the protection of LIFE, and I, as a strong pro-life advocate find that disgusting.
And your recent sign on date makes me wonder if that wasn't your purpose in the first place.......
It will not be a good day to be Jeb Bush.
I agree the number show the pro-ife Republicans walking away from the Bush GOP.
I am thankful on this Resurrection Day that we have a brother in Christ in the White House, and that in the next 4 years, steps will be taken to prevent this kind of tragedy from occuring again, and to move America back toward having a culture of LIFE.
Praise the Lord for our Godly leaders who took a stand on this, the most important issue of our generation.
Pray for this country, and its leaders........especially President Bush.
Disability as Genocidal Marker in Nazi Germany The methods used for mass extermination in the Nazi death camps originated and were perfected in earlier use against people with physical, emotional, and intellectual disabilities. Developed from the article by Dr. Mark Mostert, this website describes the historical context of attitudes toward people with disabilities in Germany and how this context produced mass murder of people with disabilities prior to and during the early years of World War II.
fist , is not the type of tube she uses need to be surgically removed?
it most likely was clamped...
Seems the Nazi comparison really ticks them off and it should but it once we begin state sponsored murder of the disabled how far removed from the Nazis are we? In the beginning the Nazi's would kill those whom did deemed as having a "life not worth living" is that not exactly what we are doing? We are not yet killing on the same scale but who knows what tomorrow brings. And if tomorrow bring massive killings, well it will still be legal so what will the obey the law crowd say then? Just how much is too much is a question that needs to be asked and answered before we travel that road.
Do not be bullied into thinking that the Nazi analogy is false, it might be then again it might not be. We are just now testing state sponsored murder of handicapped people. Maybe it will end with Terry, maybe not. But what we do know for sure is that as another poster pointed out. We (lawyer/political class) have become so enamored of the process we have lost site of the end result. That is very very bad. Until we begin to hold the process accountable for the end result we are adrift without a moral compass.
I have said over and over agin the the Bush brother are good descent men. And they are, but they are not the leader the country needs, they do not lead. Since it is Easter Sunday I will just leave it at that.
But saying those who are doing this are Nazis and that America is the same as Nazi Germany is where you have gone over the line of rational thought.
Historically you need to go back in America to the Eugenics movement which PRECEDED Nazi Germany, and see the line coming from Margaret Sanger, et al in this country who sanctioned killing the disabled, and the poor, and those of lesser races.
As it stands, those who toss the Nazi accusation around without (historical and factual) qualification, are not taken seriously, and as I said, diminish the argument, and the cause of life.
Well then since I provide both I hope you will take my argument seriously.
If you read my posts you will clearly see that I am not claiming the US is now Nazi Germany or that the American people are sheep the Germany were. But I do claim that we better think this thru very carefully before we begin defining disabled people like Terry of living a "life that is not worth living".
It only takes about 15 seconds to think this one thru. Don't go there, fire, brimstone and hell awaits there.
Oh, now it made sense..your question, I mean!
I am sorry if I offended you.
I guess your incident was one of those, "Becare what you ask for, for you may get it." times!
But I'm glad you got your home.
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