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.

[floriduh voter]

Greer is a GOP puppet for sale. He’s one reason I became an indy. With the big guns protecting him instead of Terri, someday the truth will come out. Meanwhile, Terri is in the news every day.

[floriduh voter]

Oh, and Nancy Grant is a born again Christian. As this country is taken over by secular progressives, there will be more false prosecutions of Christians; and why not start in Florida where you can be murdered cuz you’re disabled?

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[floriduh voter]

Nancy Grant sued Jeb Bush. Here's the case number.

http://www.floridasupremecourt.org/clerk/disposition/2002/10/02-2187.pdf

No wonder the media isn't reporting her false prosecution. The media is controlled by the family.

[floriduh voter]

2002 Governor's Race here Nancy Grant, Christian Party:

http://www.thegreenpapers.com/G02/FL.phtml

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A view from Tuscaloosa...

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Terri Schiavo has been dead for 2 1/2 years. Her parents and siblings now have an answer on an important question: Was her death natural and moral, or not?

The Vatican's answer: Not, on both counts.

No doubt you remember the Schiavo case. The Florida woman collapsed and went into a coma in 1990 and was later diagnosed as being in a permanent vegetative state. Her husband, Michael, won a malpractice settlement, used at first for her care at a nursing home, then later sought to have her nutrition and hydration tubes disconnected because, he said, she told him she wouldn't want to live that way.

Terri's parents, Robert and Mary Schindler, fought this in the courts for seven years but ultimately lost. The Florida Legislature and even the U.S. Congress would eventually get involved, but the tubes were disconnected, and Terri died in March 2005.

About four months after her death, U.S. Catholic bishops asked two questions of the Vatican. Last week, the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a response............

CARY MCMULLEN: Was Terry Schiavo's death 'natural'?

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Place holder. Have some early morning errands today, will be back later.

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[floriduh voter]

CANDIDATE HUCKABEE changes position re: TERRI SCHIAVO. New position is "err on the side of life."

Ouch, he must have been bombarded by Terri's supporters after what he's said in the past.

So, this flip flop is one that I welcome.

www.sptimes.com (front section).

[floriduh voter]

Scientology news: In downtown Clearwater by the courthouse, the HQ announces a big expansion and their new bldg will be called SUPER POWER. They are going to make the hotel friendly to non-sci fis for dining, etc. And then there's this about TOM CRUISE (IMO, poor Katie Holmes is going to end up in a bunker.) She might just as well as her movie career is below ground after the successful brainwashing.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=484455&in_page_id=1773

[Dante3]

Jeb Bush was a big disappointment. IMHO he is basically dishonest and his initial claim to support Terri was merely a charade. I kept thinking why is he dragging his feet. And when he could have saved her, he refused to do it. Now Florida has another creepy governor.

[Dante3]

I agree. Terri’s death was like something one expects to find in a horror story. In addition there were numerous other aspects to the case that were enough to cause concern - a sadistic person who hated Terri and had vested interests in her death nevertheless gets appointed guardian; Judge Greer’s flaunting of laws; a mother not permitted to give water or hold the hand of her dying child; etc. What kind of a society are we becoming?

[floriduh voter]

The only saving grace for the Fla GOP is that the national democrats are fighting w/Fla dems. Lawsuits are flyin' everywhere. As bad as Fla's rnc is, the dems are even worse. Somehow, they'll find a way to blame the gop in 08. Maybe their in fighting is a set up for another recount next year.

BACK TO JOHN ELLIS BUSH: Jeb succeeded as a politician but failed as a leader. (that's the bottom line and you can take that to the bank.) FV

[Dante3]

I do also.

However, his frantic support of amnesty and perks for illegal aliens makes him unacceptable to me.

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The Fred and Terri tar baby...

No surprise, the lefties won't let the Terri gaffe pass. Today it dominates the Terri news. How long has it been now? Note the post by Floriduh voter above, #728. Sounds like Mike Huckabee sees the relevance and import and recognizes it, joins his stalwart colleagues now in support. We conservatives do not have our consciences twinged by the murder of Terri so we may not appreciate how the lefties writhe.

It is they, not we who are Terri-fied. They will not let go easily.

Is Thompson’s hilarious presidential campaign for real? (Asked about the Jena Six, Thompson said, “I don’t know anything about that,” and, in Florida, said he had no opinion on the Terri Schiavo case.) Or is it on a par with Kramer’s invention of a garbage disposal for the shower so you can pare vegetables while you soap your armpits? When Thompson told Jay Leno, “I’m running for president of the United States,” was he talking about the United States of Kramerica?

Thompson, dubbed “Lazy Like a Fox” on the cover of Newsweek, has shown a studied lack of focus - he’s a former shoe salesman, lobbyist, one-and-a-third-term senator, radio commentator and ambulance chaser. Thompson was a personal-injury lawyer who represented people like Kramer, who sued Java World after spilling coffee on himself.

KRAMER VS. KRAMER A PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN ABOUT NOTHING...

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From the American Thinker...

Dick Morris complains that he is too lazy to prepare well-scripted answers to questions about local issues. In Florida, for example he deflected a question about the Terri Schiavo case saying he wasn't familiar with the details but in general he preferred local answers to local questions. To a question about oil drilling in the Everglades he said that he wasn't aware of major oil resources there but that we couldn't be in the business of putting energy resources off limits.

Each of these answers was perfectly reasonable and part of a package that is likely to have broad appeal. Neither shows a lazy candidate. They both show a mature and sensible candidate who isn't willing to pander. Thompson, unlike all the others, has important themes to project and can't be bothered to pick up a few supporters here and there by promising to serve the interests of those few at the expense of the many.

President Thompson

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Kicking the tar baby, LA Times doesn't forget...

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Thompson trips againFred Thompson didn't exactly assuage questions about his attention to detail when, during a trip to all-important Florida, he appeared at sea when asked to comment on the Terri Schiavo end-of-life case that so consumed first the state and then the nation in 2005. "That's going back in history," he said. "I don't remember the details of it."

Clinton gets most talking time in Democratic debates

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Palm Beach Post reminds as well...

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Phone makes a nice marital prop

What makes sense for Thompson right now is not to answer any more questions.

That's why he needs a handy cellphone.

Another candidate, Rudy Giuliani, has learned that a properly timed cellphone call in the middle of a speech can do wonders. Giuliani has taken a couple of calls during speeches, most recently in front of a lukewarm National Rifle Association group.

The call allowed Giuliani to say "I love you" a couple times to his wife, or somebody playing his wife. It's a good crowd softener, even when it's Wife No. 3.

And Thompson's only on No. 2. So it works even better for him.

Recently, Thompson was asked if he would have intervened to keep Terri Schiavo alive. He sounded as if he were being asked to discuss the Stamp Act of 1765.

"That's going back in history," he said of the Schiavo case. "I don't know the details of it."

If one of his handlers had been in cellphone emergency mode, he might not have looked so tragically uninformed again about a national issue that dominated the news only two years ago.

"That's going back in ... oh, excuse me, my phone. Oh, hi honey. Yes, I love you, too. ... Say hello to the nice people of Florida, dear."

Thompson ought to run on speed dial

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I am simply whelmed. That's Rich (Frank). The New York Times also remembers, to the point of including a link to the earlier report and to the episode on "Law and Order". It is almost outraging, and I am indignant, or at least a little dignant. Aging white guys indeed...

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The Republican field of aging white guys, meanwhile, gets flakier by the day. The front-runner has taken to cooing to his third wife over a cellphone in the middle of campaign speeches. His hottest challenger, the new "new Reagan," may have learned his lines for "Law & Order," but clearly needs cue cards on the stump. In Florida, even the most rudimentary details of red-hot local issues (drilling in the Everglades, Terri Schiavo) eluded him. The party's fund-raising is anemic. Its snubs of Hispanic and African-American voters kissed off essential swing states in the Sun Belt and moderate swing voters farther north.

Is Hillary Clinton the New Old Al Gore?

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Just in from New Zealand, a defender of Mikey still plying his craft...

In a wide-ranging interview, Eisenberg, one of the attorneys who represented Michael Schiavo several years ago in his battle with Congress and Florida Governor Jeb Bush to have his wife, Terri, removed from artificial life support, discussed the David vs. Goliath battle he has taken on and how it could lead to the unraveling of the Bush administration's warrantless spy program if the appeals court rules in favor of his clients.

Attorney Talks About Lawsuit Against Bush, NSA

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A sad note on another of Terri's List... TheSpottedOwl. Through thick and thin, throughout all this difficult time, TheSpottedOwl has remained a stalwart follower of the TerriDailies and a regular contributor. I thought of her as a friend in the many exchanges we shared. It is a time of prayer for Rose.

TheSpottedOwl Is passing

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