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

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

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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.

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I am all for what Sean Hannity does for the troops and their families. He just got wobbly about Terri after Mark Fuhrman's TERRI SCHIAVO SILENT WITNESS book deal, said book reported recently by the St. Petersburg Times as a "true crime" book.

Are they being provocative or are they softening? It was in an OJ Where Are They Now article this past week.

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“word is getting out about NANCY JO GRANT but it’s just starting to get momentum.”

http://www.makethestand.com/article54.html

Thank you - will check out the link!

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It is but an excerpt of a fascinating look at morality.

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In a previous installment of Bellocution Lessons, you were introduced to the work of Hilaire Belloc, who foretold by half a century the unraveling of our civilization.  We are witnessing the era of Modernism usher in the last assault on the Catholic Church in its effort to stamp it out by upending, not some, but all of its teachings and influence in our world.  He correctly describes the method of advance and the character of this movement, which he calls "antichrist", in the final chapter of his book, The Great Heresies.  

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Make no mistake, the founder of Planned Parenthood, whose policies pushed the contraception movement, are not compassionate, but are utterly hateful and socially destructive:

"(Our objective is) unlimited sexual gratification without the burden of unwanted children… (Women must have the right) to live…to love…to be lazy…to be an unmarried mother…to create…to destroy…The marriage bed is the most degenerative influence in the social order. The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it." Margaret Sanger, The Woman Rebel Volume 1, Number 1

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But perhaps the most evil fruit of all that came out of the anti-life attitude is even more far-reaching and costly, for it is an attack on our very humanity:

"The characteristic [evil fruit], the one presumably the most permanent, is the institution everywhere of cruelty accompanied by a contempt for justice… [Before Christendom] what we chiefly discover is this: That in the realm of morals one thing stands out, the unquestioned prevalence of cruelty in the unbaptized world. Cruelty will be the chief fruit in the moral field of the Modern Attack…

When there is a fundamental shift in our attitude toward life and its sacredness, as has been initiated by the imposition of contraception, does it not follow that a certain callousness will set in?   Do we not see this callousness reflected in the anti-life policies being foisted on a weary world--.  troubles compounded with troubles, until we no longer care about the sufferings of others?  Until we become indifferent to injustice?  Until dying or killing seem like mercy?  Remember the slow, tortuous death of Terri Schiavo.  Where was justice then?  Whatever discomfort I as a Catholic might have accepting parts of Catholic history, it is nothing compared with the cruelty perpetrated in its absence, and the frightening future I see before us.  Some Protestants and anti-Catholics will remind us of the cruelty perpetrated by the Church in the inquisition, the confinement and censoring of Galileo, the Crusades, and so forth, but as Belloc reminds us:

Bellocution lessons, Part 2: The death of reason

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Demonic convergence

It so usable! It is so fitting!

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Fred and Terri...the coverage persists. RedState reports.

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After surveying the entire field of Presidential candidates, I made the decision several months ago to give my tentative support to the campaign of Fred Thompson. I believed Thompson to be the most electable candidate whose views aligned most closely with my own.

Now I'm not so certain. His views of the federal marriage amendment, the Schiavo case, and his general position on federalism are troubling. For me, conservatism trumps federalism, while the position Thompson endorses seem to reverse that order.

Sadly, many conservatives--including it appears, Sen. Thompson--assume that federalism is an inherently conservative philosophy. It is not. In fact, federalism can be antithetical to conservatism when applied in the way that Thompson seems to champion.

Conservatism vs. Federalism

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Susan Estrich repeats the oft told leftie lie, the one if shouted loud enough converts to truth in the feeble mind.

Susan, you are the great expert on gender, so you should notice Terri is a girl, Terry is a guy.

This time, not shouted but whispered, it means to remind delicately that we, the American public, wanted an innocent to be murdered and abhored efforts to save that innocent life.

But when it comes to passing bills, complete with debate on the Senate floor, things have gone too far. This was a Republican diversionary tactic, and the crime here is that Democrats think so little of the American people that they were afraid, again, to label it for what it was, and refuse to play along.

Remember Terry Schiavo. The Democrats all went home and hid rather than stand up and say that the Republicans and their president were out-of-bounds in their grandstanding efforts to usurp the roles of the family, the doctors, and the courts in ending the life of a long brain-dead woman.

They were afraid the people would hold it against them. But as every poll showed, the people were disgusted with the Republicans and disappointed in the Democrats, which is to say that they, we, are a whole lot smarter than we’re given credit for.

Attacking a Newspaper Ad Doesn't Save a Single Soldier

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Once again we hear about Clearwater, the black rock of Scientology. Recall it envelopes the habitat of Judge George Greer and the killers of Terri. Now it is AP describing the uniforms of today.

CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — Sure, says Mayor Frank Hibbard. It can be a little unsettling sometimes — throngs of Scientologists wandering Clearwater's streets in their blue or khaki trousers and crisp dress shirts.

Sometimes, it makes the neighbors a bit uneasy.

Clearwater, Fla.: Scientology Stronghold

Times have changed. Their uniform of a few years back was more distinctive.

Nancy and her neo-Nazis

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As Time goes by...

Time magazine is looking for hypocrites in Vatican City, carrying a story headlined "Was John Paul II Euthanized?" Reporter Jeff Israely cited a "provocative article" in the Italian media that an intensive-care specialist concluded that John Paul’s death was "caused by what the Catholic Church itself would consider euthanasia. She bases this conclusion on her medical expertise and her own observations of the ailing pontiff on television." But wait, doesn’t that sound a lot like Sen. Bill Frist in 2005 suggesting a diagnosis for Terri Schiavo based on his expertise and TV watching? Back then, Time magazine thought that wasn’t merely provocative, but the act of a "truly unhinged" man, a "dodo." Time insulted Frist for that in six different articles. But Pope-bashers merely ask "provocative" questions.

Time Plays TV Doctor: Did Vatican Give Pope John Paul A Push Into Death?

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Playing God is a tough act in the designer baby department in this thread by wagglebee.

Increasingly, doctors confront angry groups armed with arguments about diversity, freedom, human value, love of children and definitions of disease.

"You are targeting people with Down syndrome. Why are you doing this to a particular class of people?" said Kathleen Forney, the director of the Down Syndrome Association of Minnesota, who has a 10-year-old son with Down syndrome.

Miles said doctors now scan fetuses for a broad range of disabilities, including blindness and congenital disabilities such as one that results in a baby without a brain. Tests for other conditions are being developed rapidly - leaving pregnant women with ever-more-difficult choices.

How perfect should our children be? (Pre-Natal Genetic Testing)

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Ping to this thread on the Pope's death in a thread by NYer with thanks to narses for the ping. Note upthread #669 here in a post today in reaction to this topic.

In a provocative article, an Italian medical professor argues that Pope John Paul II didn't just simply slip away as his weakness and illness overtook him in April 2005. Intensive care specialist Dr. Lina Pavanelli has concluded that the ailing Pope's April 2 death was caused by what the Catholic Church itself would consider euthanasia. She bases this conclusion on her medical expertise and her own observations of the ailing pontiff on television, as well as press reports and a subsequent book by John Paul's personal physician. The failure to insert a feeding tube into the patient until just a few days before he died accelerated John Paul's death, Pavanelli concludes. Moreover, Pavanelli says she believes that the Pope's doctors dutifully explained the situation to him, and thus she surmises that it was the pontiff himself who likely refused the feeding tube after he'd been twice rushed to the hospital in February and March. Catholics are enjoined to pursue all means to prolong life.

Was John Paul II Euthanized? (red herring alert!)

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Teachers pet...

Chasing the perp down in a thread by monomaniac... Thanks narses.

Boyntown Beach, FL (LifeNews.com) -- Police in southern Florida have arrested a public school teacher who is accused of having sex with two of his students and using an abortion to cover up his actions. Santaluces High School drama teacher Andrew Foster, 29, allegedly started having sex with the students last year and got one of them pregnant.

Foster was arrested yesterday in Collier County by the U.S. Marshals South Florida Fugitive Task Force.

The teacher had been on the lam for about two weeks until authorities located him at a hotel in Immokalee. After officials apprehended him, they took him to the Palm Beach County Jail.

Florida Police Arrest Teacher Who Used Abortion to Cover Up Sexual Abuse

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They tried to SMEAR Mother Theresa which didn’t work so now they try to SMEAR the Pope who was terminally ill, I might add. It was not EUTHANASIA but that Italian professor may be a euthanazi.

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Well, per Judge Greer, all seeing (blind), all knowing, Pope John Paul was nuthin’ but a blogger.

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A comprehensive perspective comes from, admittedly to my surprise, ProgressiveU.

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Remember what happened to the Terri Schiavo case in 2005? I still think it was unethical to take her feeding tube away. If you said yes to it, then you should be considered as a murderer.

Many people back up Terri's husband because he claimed that Terri would want to die since she can no longer function correctly. I believe money was also an issue. My friends told me that it's mercy killing and they wouldn't want to live anymore if they were in Terri's place either. You cannot say that. You're not the one who is lying the bed trying to communicate with other people but cannot due to the fact that the body will not listen to you. Plus, if you give an excuse of, "She told me to kill her because she doesn't want to live her life in bed in that anymore"...then you are saying that you support assisted suicide, which is considered to be murder.

You must also be willing to help someone who is in emotional distress (suffering from depression, for example). If your friend is heart broken and depressed to the point that she does not eat or associate with anyone, then she asks you, "Can you kill me? I cannot live this way anymore." If you use that excuse to pull Terri's life support, then you should use the same excuse to help your friend commit suicide too. Am I wrong?

Then, you might tell me, "No, that's different. My friend is physically fine". Just because your friend is still capable to move physically, does that mean you should try your best to save your friend and not someone like Terri who is experiencing similar situation but cannot move? If so, you must support abortion as well. The mother can say, "I don't want want this baby because it wouldn't want to live when it comes out to this cruel world. I cannot support her." And you have to support abortion for that mother.

Basically, if you say yes to take life support away from someone like Terri Schiavo, you should say yes to assisted suicide, and you should say yes to abortion as well.

It's the same thing, isn't it? If you say no to one question, then you have to say no to all three. If not, then your opinion wouldn't make sense. You'll be contradicting yourself. Right?

Don't Take Out the Life Support

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Another recognizes what we have been saying all this time! Here the writer equates Terri's impact with that of Iranian whatzit, Ahmadinejad.

Every once and a while an issue emerges that exposes in stark relief the great chasm separating Right from Left – where the differences revealed are so profound that the two sides look at each other across this great divide and see not a political opponent but a strange and unfamiliar form of life whose habits of thought and moral calculus are so dissimilar as to make the gulf that separates them seem unbridgeable.

The on again-off again visit by President Ahmadinejad is such an issue. Rarely has the reaction to an event been so dichotomous. Perhaps not since the Terri Schiavo matter has the lines of understanding and perception been drawn so sharply that bewilderment mixed with outrage have been the dominant themes rather than the usual snark and spite that is hurled back and forth on a daily basis.

Grow Up

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In the department of Aw shucks, some items wax and wane and some items grow. Sorry, Mikey, you and the killers are becoming so....yesterday, as Terri's Legacy grows.

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Coral Gables, FL(LifeNews.com) -- Terri Schiavo's ex-husband has made it official and filed legal papers on Friday with the Federal Election Commission confirming his intention to disband his political action committee. According to FEC papers LifeNews.com obtained, Michael Schiavo's brother Brian signed the report terminating the organization TerriPAC.

As LifeNews.com reported last week, Michael decided to close down the political action committee he created to go after pro-life lawmakers who sided with Terri's family in their efforts to save her life.

After ordering her painful two-week-long starvation and dehydration death in March 2005, Michael Schiavo created the PAC to target pro-life lawmakers who tried to stop him from killing her. Coral Gables, FL(LifeNews.com) -- Terri Schiavo's ex-husband has made it official and filed legal papers on Friday with the Federal Election Commission confirming his intention to disband his political action committee. According to FEC papers LifeNews.com obtained, Michael Schiavo's brother Brian signed the report terminating the organization TerriPAC.

As LifeNews.com reported last week, Michael decided to close down the political action committee he created to go after pro-life lawmakers who sided with Terri's family in their efforts to save her life.

After ordering her painful two-week-long starvation and dehydration death in March 2005, Michael Schiavo created the PAC to target pro-life lawmakers who tried to stop him from killing her................

Terri Schiavo's Ex-Husband Files FEC Papers Officially Closing Political Group

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Gays protest again, and the few protesters against us those last days of Terri's ordeal were gay, as well. I am a little puzzled about why. (Not much though...) I wonder if they will adopt as their theme song, "Love is a Many Gendered Thing."

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A protest was staged outside a Florida Baptist church last week as it hosted a pro-family summit attended by some of the nation’s most prominent conservative Christian leaders.

Signs reading “God Loves Me as I Am” and “Queerly Divine and Doing Fine” were seen outside of Bell Shoals Baptist Church in Brandon, Fla., Thursday afternoon, according to the St. Petersburg Times.

About 75 gay rights activists called the Family Impact Summit a “hate summit” that encourages bigotry with its opposition to gay “marriage” and for mobilizing Christians to petition against the practice.

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The summit, which aimed to lay the groundwork for a new Florida activist network, attracted prominent national Christian leaders such as Tony Perkins, president of Family Research Council; Gary Bauer, founder of American Values; Dr. Richard Land, president of The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission; Bishop Harry Jackson, founder and chairman of the High Impact Leadership Coalition; and Tom Minnery, senior vice president of government and public policy at Focus on the Family.

Local political leaders and activists also attended the conservative gathering including former Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris and Bobby Schindler, the brother of the late Terri Schiavo.

The first day of the summit included sessions ranging from “Life Issues” to “The Homosexual Agenda” to “What Every Christian Should Know about Islam,” according to the St. Petersburg Times.

Pro-Family Summit Faces Opposition

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