Terri Schiavo's Family Continues Effort to Block Jack Kevorkian UF Speech

Life News ^ | 9/3/07 | Steven Ertelt

[wagglebee]

Gainesville, FL (LifeNews.com) -- The family of Terri Schiavo is continuing its efforts to block a speech by Jack Kevorkian scheduled for the middle of next month. The speech would be the first for the former assisted suicide crusader following his release from prison for killing a disabled man and showing the death on national television.

Kevorkian would speak to students at the University of Florida on October 11 and receive $50,000 for the talk, as long as his parole officers approve the trip.

The family of Terri Schiavo has been leading an effort to stop the speech by gathering petitions from concerned citizens so Kevorkian doesn't get a platform in their home state.

They don't want the former pathologist telling students that people with disabilities should be killed, like their sister, rather than receiving appropriate medical treatment or rehabilitative care.

Bobby Schindler, Terri's brother, told LifeNews.com, "We have collected thousands of petitions (and they are still coming in) to deliver to the Office of the President of the University of Florida."

"We're demanding the University rescind its offer to pay $50,000 for Kevorkian to address the students," he added.

"Despite the ongoing message of death spreading through our society and those, like Jack Kevorkian, who attempt to justify killing the most vulnerable among us, we are committed to fight against this death-obsessed culture and spread Terri's legacy of life, hope and love," Schindler explained.

He said there is still time for pro-life people and others worried about Kevorkian's pro-assisted suicide message to sign a petition asking the University of Florida to cancel the speech.

The petition can be found at the Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation web site.

ACTION: You can also contact the University of Florida President J. Bernard Machen at 352-392-1311 or president@ufl.edu.

[wagglebee]

I think T'wit said it best:

"Visitors: the good news is, lots of people have agreed with you. The bad news is, they were Nazis."

[Badeye]

I’ve learned over the years in these forums whenever a poster becomes so ate up with the goofies they start tossing out Hilter comparisions, its time to move on.

[Lesforlife]

Superb!

[Sioux-san]

I am trying to remember the last time UFL Speakers bureau featured a convicted felon who killed people and went to prison for his crimes. They have had a lot of lame people spew baloney at the students, but this really does plumb the depths.
If Kevorkian needs the money - Let him move to Oregon.

[bjs1779]

The final autopsy doesn’t support this. I do believe there was something seriously, horribly wrong in this incident, but there isn’t anything to support further investigation in my view.

The final autopsy report stated the the manner of death is: "UNDETRIMINED". The case is still open, according to Dr. Thogmartin.

Interesting how you think there is "something seriously, horribly wrong in this incident", yet you do not support an investigation. Fact is there never was a credible investigation to start with.

Even after they killed Terri, Jeb Bush requested that an investigation about Michael's statements about the night of the incident. The Pinenllas States Attorney most eloquently told Bush that it was not nessecary. In other words, they didn't bother to ask Michael Schiavo ONE question.

[bjs1779]

Should I bankrupt her completely so as to endure an agonizing ‘end’ months, maybe years in the future?

Nobody can answer that complicated question for anyone else.

You mean she had money? Do you mean that you wanted it?

[8mmMauser]

Did the MoveOn crowd move on?

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Boże, coś Polskę.................

Courageous move of Poland on right to life in a thread by wagglebee...

WARSAW, September 6, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) -The European Commission's proposal to establish a European Day Against the Death Penalty has come under sharp criticism from Poland, which says the European Union (EU) instead needs to promote a day dedicated to the protection of all human life.

In the proposed declaration, the EU and the Council of Europe "stress the importance of persevering in the pursuit of actions aimed at abolishing the death penalty in the world" and "invite European citizens to support the abolition of the death penalty in the world and thereby contribute to the development of fundamental rights and human dignity."

However Poland has objected to the notion that "development of fundamental rights and human dignity" can take place without being placed in the context of the "right to life."

Poland Demands EU Make Day for "Right to Life" Not Just Day Against Death Penalty

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[mtbopfuyn]

Well, there’s THE death penalty and then there’s a penalty on living. Two separate things.

[8mmMauser]

Little Maria...

This is a story of how things sometimes happen. Thread by wagglebee...

September 5, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - At numerous North American abortion clinics dedicated, prayerful pro-life sidewalk counselors attempt to save mothers and their babies from abortion. Many babies are in fact saved and their mothers helped to continue with the pregnancy and raise their saved children.

What is not widely known are the often amazing, unexplainable occurrences that result in many of these successes. LifeSiteNews staff have heard numerous such stories which are sometimes enough to cause tears or raise goose bumps on one's skin.

The following is one such story about the uncanny appearance of a stranger who made all the difference in the world (or shall we also say, out of this world) to the life of little Maria.

The Miracle of Little Maria's Rescue From Abortion (Wonderful Story!)

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[wagglebee]

Did the MoveOn crowd move on?

It seems that way, I guess the truth hit a little too close to home.

[8mmMauser]

Upcoming event...

HERNDON, VA - SEPTEMBER 7, 2007 - 15th Annual International Week of Prayer & Fasting (October 5-13, 2007) – the International Week of Prayer & Fasting Coalition has seen a huge expansion of its original mission and continued growth. Originally established to promote a “culture of life” around the world, this coalition has witnessed a transformation of sorts since it began.

Coalition Chairperson Maureen Flynn says the expansion of the group’s mission is ongoing. “This is actually a coalition, a grassroots effort of groups from all over the world that we have been working with for over 15 years,” she notes, “and as we have approached more problems in the world, especially with terrorism and the decline of the culture of life, this grassroots movement has grown.”

~Snip~

Sunday, October 7th - Culture of Life Awards Banquet, Georgetown University Conference Center with Dr. Alan Keyes - Keynote Speaker, Raymond Arroyo - EWTN, Congressman Chris Smith and Eduardo Verastegui - star of the new movie BELLA.

Monday, October 8th - Eucharistic Prayer Day at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception (9am-5pm) with Rev. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, Rev. Clement Machado of the Vatican, Bobby Schindler (Terri Schiavo’s brother) and several other speakers.

Global Prayer and Fasting Movement

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[8mmMauser]

Another upcoming event, also featuring Bobby Schindler...

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Leaders from around the globe will share strategies for saving lives.

The first International Symposium on Euthanasia, "Current Issues and Future Directions," is set for Nov. 30-Dec. 1 in Toronto. It is being organized by the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition of Canada, and will allow leaders to discuss strategies for stopping the euthanasia movement.

"The conference is going to bring together leaders and people concerned about euthanasia from all around the world," said Rita Marker, executive director of the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide. "We definitely have to be concerned about what is happening everywhere."

Marker pointed out that assisted-suicide supporters from Oregon traveled to Britain to study its policies before Oregon passed its own law in 1997. 

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In addition to Marker, the list of speakers includes: Dr. William Toffler, national director of Physicians for Compassionate Care in Portland, Ore.; Diane Coleman, founder of NOT DEAD YET, a leading disability rights group in the U.S.; Alex Schadenberg, executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition; and Bobby Schindler, brother of Terri Schiavo.

International Conference Tackles Assisted Suicide

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[8mmMauser]

Now here is a heart chilling appointment!

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TAVARES - A doctor best known for performing the autopsy of Terri Schiavo has been named interim medical examiner for Lake and four other counties.

Pinellas-Pasco County Medical Examiner Jon R. Thogmartin, who also worked on cases involving victims of the ValuJet crash in the Everglades, will complete the term of Dr. Steven Cogswell.

~Snip~

Since the resignations, medical examiners from Thogmartin's office in Pinellas County have filled in at the Leesburg office, which employs about 20 people. Thogmartin will oversee both the Pinellas-Pasco office and the District 5 operation.

In the highly emotional Schiavo case, which sparked a passionate debate about end-of-life wishes, Thogmartin denied rival requests by the brain-damaged woman's parents and by her husband to allow their own pathologists to observe the autopsy.

Countieto have new examiner... A Florida Gulf Coast doctor best known for performing Terri Schiavo's autopsy will take over on an interim basis for Dr. Steven Cogswell.

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[8mmMauser]

Excerpt from an article by Helen Valois on Alan Keyes...

Recall, in the critical days of Terri's suffering Alan Keyes stood by us and fought to save Terri as few have. Elites and their echoes in the media and even here on FreeRepublic are quick to laugh down this fine and honorable man who just does not get the approval of the RINO's and compromisers in places of power. Helen Valois has worked tirelessly as well, fighting for Terri's Legacy.

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They're still signing on. People from across the country are going to the petition at AlanKeyes.com every day and adding their names and remarks to the list of those who are hoping, praying, and working to see Alan Keyes run for President in 2008.

The petition itself represents only the tip of a conservative iceberg submerged under a virtual media blackout of the draft-Keyes effort, an iceberg that is ready to sink a RINO nomination as surely as the hunk of ice that sank the Titanic.

Only a relative few are aware of this phenomenon — but happily, the mainstream media doesn't actually create reality. At best, it only mimics it. Those who want to know what is really going on — and who want to participate in it themselves — can easily do so and can encourage others to do so as well.

~Snip~

What Mrs. Brown aptly describes as a "watershed moment" in our national history is certainly upon us. We used to have two major parties that were pro-life, as indeed Americans qua Americans — regardless of political affiliation — understood themselves to be, as well. Pressured by the radicals who promote the notions of Margaret Sanger, however, the Democrats eventually went pro-choice, while "pro-abortion" is the only possible description of their stance by now.

(Correction: Even the term "pro-abortion" no longer covers it, actually. Democratic frontrunner Barack Obama, after all, failed to support the Born Alive Infants Protection Act while he was a senator in Illinois, indicating that, as surely as "pro-choice" becomes "pro-abortion," "pro-abortion" becomes "pro-infanticide" and — in view of the Schindler-Schiavo slaying — "pro-euthanasia" as well. A friend of ours once told me, from the comfort of my own living room couch, that what I was telling him about Obama simply couldn't be the case, since the Democratic "rising star" is obviously — as the media unfailingly presents him — such a wonderful and winning guy. It's truly blood-chilling, the extent to which the simple facts of our political situation have been successfully banished from our mainstream discussion of it.)

Alan's the key: Ask his growing corps of supporters for '08

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[8mmMauser]

Soon to come to our town if the dems have their way...

Thanks to TheSarce for a ping to this thread by Clive.

Get immediate surgery to treat a brain tumour -- or risk permanent blindness and possibly death. That was the choice presented to 43-year-old Shona Holmes of Waterdown, Ont. But Ontario's government-run health care system offered her only a waiting list.

Ms. Holmes, a self-employed family mediator and the mother of two children, began losing her vision in March, 2005. She also experienced severe headaches, anxiety attacks, high blood pressure, extreme fatigue and weight gain. In spite of these symptoms -- and an MRI scan revealing the tumour causing them -- Ontario's health system told Shona that she would have to wait four months to see a neurologist and six months to see an endocrinologist.

Suing the government for the right to see and live

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[8mmMauser]

Thread by NYer on this outrage of human-animal hybrids. Thanks to TheSarce for the ping.

I must note that despite the powerful evidence to suggest, the far leftists are not human-animal hybrids contrary to all logical claim. Surely, someone will note an example or two which looks beyond dispute, yet it is ersatz just like the words spilling out of its mouth.

Britain's step towards the creation of human-animal hybrids has been condemned by the Vatican as a "monstrous act against human dignity". Days after the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority agreed in principle to license experiments for research, the Vatican's Bishop Elio Sgreccia accused the quango of crumbling "when confronted by requests from a group of scientists", who, he said, were "absolutely against morality".

Vatican attacks human hybrids as 'monstrous act against human dignity'

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[8mmMauser]

A WMD...

Consider this, Dr. Death.!

Just in case anyone still wonders about Planned Parenthood and abortion and euthanasia...

Thread by wagglebee.

September 6, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - An Israeli doctor has recently published an account of the Nazi use of abortion, euthanasia, and sterilization to eliminate groups they deemed "inferior stock", especially Jewish and Slavic people.

Dr. Tessa Chelouche writes that "Abortion was used as a weapon of mass destruction in Eastern Europe," where "it has been estimated that tens of thousands of Polish and Russian women were compelled to abort not because of health reasons, but because of Nazi dogma." She goes on to quote Hitler's 1942 policy statement on the application of abortion to Slavic people, which is chillingly similar to modern Planned Parenthood propaganda:

Israeli Doctor Exposes Nazi Abortion Program

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[8mmMauser]

In the serial snuff finals, Killer Tiller gives Dr. Death a run for his money in this sudden death playoff. Thread from wagglebee.

TOPEKA, Kans., Sept. 7 /Christian Newswire/ -- A former patient of abortionist George R. Tiller gave jaw-dropping testimony before a joint interim legislative committee today, telling the detailed story of her late-term abortion experience that obviously violated the Kansas ban on such abortions at nearly every turn.

"This is perhaps the most explosive testimony that has every been heard at the Capitol. Based on this testimony alone, Tiller's medical license should not survive to the end of the day," said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. "We demand that the Board of Healing Arts take immediate action to stop Tiller from victimizing any more women."

Former Tiller Patient Drops Bombshell Testimony of Illegal, Coerced Abortion on Legislative Comm.

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[8mmMauser]

Looks like Congress is set to choose sides (like both/all of the above...) in the Tiller/Kervorkian playoffs. Thread by wagglebee.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Attempts to advance policies opposed by pro-life and pro-family organizations are expected to resume now that Congress has reconvened after a month-long recess.

The Senate and House of Representatives returned to work Sept. 4 with the war in Iraq the center of attention, but the Democratic leadership also appears prepared to challenge President Bush with votes on such controversial proposals as funding destructive embryonic stem cell research (ESCR) and expanding so-called "homosexual rights."

Congress poised to challenge Bush on pro-family issues

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