[Ohioan from Florida]

Somebody ought to tell Judy (who wrote this hit piece) that her little snippet has some factual errors, but I can tell she doesn't care about accuracy.

"Dayside" on Tuesday (March 29, 2006) featured the parents and siblings of Terri Schiavo, who died in a Florida nursing home hospice a year ago following the removal of a feeding tube that had kept her alive nourished her for years after she suddenly collapsed at the home she shared with her husband Michael Schiavo in 1991 1990. The family was there to promote the book they have written about their fight to keep in the feeding tube, titled A Life That Matters.

Can you believe that some people think a nursing home is the same thing as a hospice facility? My guess is that they've never been to either one.

[8mmMauser]

Facts are not very important to those types. Words are but tools for effect. Accuracy and meaning are irrelevant, only the effect they have on the recipient.

Catholics I admire include Brother Paul O'Donnell and Brother Hilary, the Franciscan monks from Minnesota who stood by Terri and her family. A mild mannered man, Brother Paul spoke as if the Holy Ghost were speaking through him when he defended Terri.

Here is something else from Minnesota, the state where I was born.

A bill encouraging Minnesotans to make their long-term and end-of-life care wishes known continued to pass legislative hurdles this week.

The Minnesota House Civil Law Committee voted March 27 in favor of the “Starvation and Dehydration of Persons with Disabilities Prevention Act.”

Bill covers food and water issues for those in long-term care or ending life

Minnesota bishops support proposal

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