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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Thread on sneaky euthanasia stats, by wagglebee:

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, September 27, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - One of the many arguments against euthanasia, widely held by activists and medical professionals alike, is the fear that legalized physician-assisted suicide will result in a "slippery slope effect" resulting in the coerced suicide of vulnerable individuals. A new study which will be published in the October issue of the Journal of Medical Ethics is purporting to have put that objection to rest by proving that, in areas where euthanasia has been legalized, there has been no such "slippery slope" effect. The research was lead by University of Utah professor, Margaret Battin known as an expert in the 'ethics' of suicide and a prominent supporter of physician-assisted suicide. Battin's curriculum vitae is a laundry list of works pertaining to the legalization and 'morals' of euthanasia.

According to the research team, the purpose of the study was to determine if there was a significant increase in the death of any particularly vulnerable demographic such as the elderly, minorities, children or those who suffer from a chronic illness following the advent of legalized euthanasia in both Oregon and the Netherlands.

Euthanasia Critics Challenge Pro-Euthanasia Study Research Methods

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Massachusetts killing machine thread by wagglebee.

Hyannis, MA (LifeNews.com) -- Two weeks ago, a Massachusetts woman may have died from an abortion at an abortion business in this southeastern city. The unnamed woman apparently died after suffering hemorrhaging caused by an abortion obtained at Women Health Center in the Cape Cod town of Hyannis.

It appears that abortion practitioner Rapin Osathanondh, did the abortion that may have caused her death. He made headlines in 2001 when he threatened to kill staff members because of misplaced paperwork.

Woman May Have Died From Botched Abortion at Massachusetts Facility

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Salvation has a fitting thread for the day.

VERY soon your life here will end; consider, then, what may be in store for you elsewhere. Today we live; tomorrow we die and are quickly forgotten. Oh, the dullness and hardness of a heart which looks only to the present instead of preparing for that which is to come!

Therefore, in every deed and every thought, act as though you were to die this very day. If you had a good conscience you would not fear death very much. It is better to avoid sin than to fear death. If you are not prepared today, how will you be prepared tomorrow?.......................

Imitation of Christ: 1, 23, Thoughts on Death [Devotional]

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The train is to nowhere, a dark tunnel with no light at the end. Thread by wagglebee.

Remember those quaint old days when biotechnologists told us that “all” they wanted to effectuate embryonic stem cell research (ESCR) was merely access to leftover in vitro fertilization (IVF) embryos “that were going to be tossed out anyway?”

Actually, I misspeak. Those days might have been quaint but they definitely aren't old. Human embryonic stem cells were only derived in 1998; the great ESCR debate has been with us for fewer than ten years.

No Brakes on the Runaway Embryonic Stem Cell Research Train

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We have discussed Living Wills many times on these Terri Daily threads. This thread by wagglebee comes from the UK.

Desperately ill patients will be at risk of being killed off by friends or relatives under "living will" laws, officials admitted yesterday. The system that allows a third party to withdraw the medical treatment that is keeping a patient alive is open to abuse and fraud, they said.

The prospect of patients being killed on the orders of relatives who stand to benefit from their wills has reignited debate on the Mental Capacity Act, which comes into force on Monday.

'Living will law' could put frail lives at risk, warn doctors

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Doublecross of Holy in this thread by wagglebee on evil masked as good.

WORCHESTER, Massachusetts, September 28, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Jesuit-run Holy Cross, the oldest Catholic college in New England, is hosting the 2007 Teen Pregnancy Institute with Planned Parenthood promoting teenage contraception.

The Massachusetts Alliance on Teen Pregnancy presents the conference every year, but by hosting the conference the Holy Cross Jesuits are sending the message that they have no qualms with its promotion of contraception and the presence of Planned Parenthood, which are intrinsically inimical to the pro-life teachings of the Catholic Church.

Holy Cross College Hosts on-Campus Planned Parenthood Workshops, Awards Pro-Abortion Governor

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Maybe Dr.K was dying to pull the wool over someone’s eyes and he couldn’t do that from prison! UF has a long history of paying depressing guest speakers to depress their students. I had the misfortune of sitting thru a Commencement Address by then Ins. commissioner Bill Nelson. I’ve never heard more depressing tripe during a commencement address (to graduating students venturing forth in their new lives, mind you) before or since. Bureaucrats should not be allowed to speak to students ever, let alone at commencement! That he was then to be elected (to anything) was a bad joke on all Floridians!

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Will this do in Roe vs. Wade? Thread by wagglebee.

Pro-life organizations are trying to build support for the legal definition that an unborn child is a person to exploit a weakness that was cited by author Harry Blackmun when he wrote the creative Roe V. Wade abortion precedent in 1973.

But their work has generated a huge argument within the pro-life movement: whether it's better to chip away at the opportunities abortionists have to conduct their business or a challenge should be mounted to confront Roe's very premise that the unborn are only tissue.

'Personhood' silver bullet to kill Roe v. Wade?

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Encouraging thread on Downs by wagglebee...

At two-and-a-half years old, Evan is a special little boy who sings himself to sleep with "Jesus loves me." Declining all testing for which there was not a positive health intervention, Chris and Julie Messina welcomed their first child. "Joyful," "friendly" and "loving" are just some of the attributes that make Evan unique. He also has an extra (third) copy of the 21st chromosome, a condition known as Trisomy 21, or Down syndrome.

Over ninety percent of parents abort their children after receiving a pre-natal diagnosis of Trisomy 21.1 In an effort to remedy this, the Prenatally and Postnatally Diagnosed Conditions Awareness Act has been introduced to "increase the provision of scientifically sound information and support services to parents who receive a positive diagnosis" of Down syndrome and other conditions. This would help ensure parents receive up-to-date information and support services as well as real alternatives to abortion.

Bill Seeks Support for Parents of Children with Down Syndrome

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B
“Where did the children get into this?”

UF...Taser U...wacko central at times....Children there were actually listening to loser John (Cary)....UF isn’t inviting Dr. Death to talk to adults! Captive audince(s) of children is entirely different altogether! (and you know some ‘professor’ will be giving ‘credit’ to attend) If adults (over 21) want to call Dr. Death that’s one thing...None of us want to see UF get the ‘Columbia Syndrome’ (Useful Idiots posterchile du jour).

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“What other criminals are invited to universities (aside from drug users, pornographers and other moral deviants) to extol the “virtues” of their crimes?”

I’m sure you meant ‘other than Ahmaddanutjob speaking at Columbia...’.

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In some odd, yet unrecognizable remembrance, it comes back to me, the days at Desoto City School when I encountered for the first time, a small community of handicapped children. It was awhile back, 1948 or so, but the memories are vivid and portended what was to come.

I am fascinated by the works of J.A.I.L. and the courage of those daring to confront this dark amorphous wad of spectres in black.

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Soon after the founding of our Republic the Founding Fathers realized there was insufficient check on the Judicial Branch of government:

"The constitution, on this hypothesis, is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please. It should be remembered, as an axiom of eternal truth in politics, that whatever power in any government is independent, is absolute also; in theory only, at first, while the spirit of the people is up, but in practice, as fast as that relaxes. Independence can be trusted nowhere but with the people in mass. They are inherently independent of all but moral law."
~ Thomas Jefferson, letter to Judge Spencer Roane, September 6, 1819. "The Writings of Thomas Jefferson," edited by Andrew A. Lipscomb, vol. 15, p. 213 (1904).

J.A.I.L.

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Your ‘move on’ point is interesting....Brady’s definitely need to ‘move on’!

[Dante3]

Prayers for Rose. I have enjoyed reading her posts.

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He hadn’t been invited to Columbia yet.

[floriduh voter]

Bill Clinton was quoted re: Terri in today’s Sunday sptimes.com. Not a day goes by.

[floriduh voter]

Nice that South Dakota's Jail4Judges is informing the public of Nancy Grant's false prosecution.

God Bless, Rose. She was thinking about selling Avon and was always making plans. She was always in Terri's fight.

COMPUTER RELATED - Has anyone ever bought a pc monitor that seems to have little ants as an accessory? If so, how do I make them go away? They seem to live in the monitor...

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The Spotted Owl is still hangin’ in there.

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Huckabee says he’s a Baptist Minister. Maybe the Baptist Southern Witness set him straight.

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NANCY GRANT, Terri supporter, victim of Florida's injustice system.

The media will not cover her cuz she's anti-Bush and anti-judges, kind of like many of us who view the judges as abusers of power.

A Leon County judge is trying to take away our vote on property tax reform. If Floridians lose on this issue to a judge, more will flee the state. Judges have power they were never granted. They usurp power. That's why they are called activist judges.

Nancy Grant's fight has just begun. She is appealing her conviction. She's a Terri supporter and knows how corrupt Florida's judicial system is.

She is being punished for exposing DeSoto County, Arcadia, Florida's GOOD OLD BOYS.