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.

[Dante3]

LOL

[CRBDeuce]

kinda like the watershed moment when UF realized it was about to go down for the count:
http://www.wftv.com/news/14144880/detail.html
or mebbe Taseree Andrew called and said he couldn’t wait to see Dr. Death!

and I sure hope you’re right in your analysis: “It was a watershed moment that CC came to the realization that hanging out with Brad Pitt, Arnold and w/Bill Clinton re: global warming doesn’t help Floridians one bit with their insurance and property taxes.”
for a while he looked as crazy as a loon.

[floriduh voter]

"Don't taze me, bro."

An idea for a t-shirt, "Don't tax me, bro."

[floriduh voter]

More on Loyola, the place where they look like Catholics as on a movie set...

That remarks sounds like Bishop Lynch or the fr who hitched Mikey and his intended Jodi after Terri was out of the picture ("Thanks judicial/hospice system for killing my wife for me."

[floriduh voter]

Fred T. was right about "history".

Terri WAS HISTORY after 3-31-05 after she was MURDERED in Florida, by Florida.

[floriduh voter]

"Don't taze me, bro."

An idea for a t-shirt, "Don't tax me, bro."

[floriduh voter]

my pc is acting up. sorry about the duplicate but I think I’m gonna get a t-shirt that says Don’t Tax Me, Bro and have a Trim Notice graphic on it too.

[8mmMauser]

Ping to thread about the boy allergic to nearly everything...

The boy who is allergic to almost EVERY food

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[8mmMauser]

WND's Janet Folger nails Ron Paul's response on the Terri question.

Here's what I saw: While he's been a courageous defender of the Constitution, Ron Paul had too many wrong answers at the Values Voter Debate to receive our support. Save your angry e-mails until you've seen the video of his podium lit "red" with "no votes" while everyone else voted "yes" to questions about whether they would protect disabled patients like Terri Schiavo from a starvation death, agree to prosecute all violators of the federal obscenity law, and support a trade policy with China contingent on improved human rights and quality standards.

The next president of the United States

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[8mmMauser]

Fred and Terri, every day, every day...

His opening gaffe on Terri so early opened a wound the media just loves to exploit...

* Asked about his thoughts on the Terri Schiavo matter, Thompson said, “That’s going back in history. I don’t remember the details of it.”

Fred Thompson clueless again, this time on Iraqi WMD

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[8mmMauser]

A look at PVS and how it is used...

“Brain regions involved in language, movement and navigation, which would be active when someone was playing tennis, wandering around a building, or imagining doing so, lighted up in ways that were 'indistinguishable' from those in 12 healthy people," according to the Post. The researchers reported that the fMRIs “confirmed beyond any doubt that [the patient] was consciously aware of herself and her surroundings, and was willfully following instructions given to her, despite her diagnosis of a vegetative state.”

You can imagine the implications for patients who, like Terri Schindler Schiavo, have been diagnosed to be in a PVS. They routinely are given only the most modest care and, as the case with Terri, can be starved and dehydrated to death.

Re-Defining My Life Away: Turning PVS Patients Into Non-Persons

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[8mmMauser]

Yes, it is shocking, but we must remember it what they do, the killers. They kill. That is their profession. Thread by wagglebee.

HYANNIS, Massachusetts, October 1, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A Massachusetts woman is demanding the authorities take action against an abortionist, who destroyed her daughter's unborn child while she died of cardiac arrest on his operating table.

Operation Rescue reports that Eileen Smith has initiated legal action against abortionist Rabin Osathanondh in order to prevent her daughter's cruel death from being merely "swept under the rug" as frequently occurs after abortion tragedies.

Smith's 22-year old daughter, Laura Hope Smith, walked into Osathanondh's Women Health Clinic in Hyannis on September 13, 2007, as a healthy young woman engaged to be married before she died on Osathanondh's abortion table. A friend had taken Laura to the abortion clinic without the knowledge of her mother, Eileen, who told Operation Rescue that she never realized her daughter was 13 weeks pregnant and considering an abortion until both her daughter and the child were dead.

Early reports had indicated that Smith's daughter had died of hemorrhage from the abortion, but Smith contends this information is erroneous. "There was no bleeding. She stopped breathing and went into cardiac arrest," said Smith.

Mother Demands Justice against Abortionist for Letting Daughter Die As He Was Killing Her Child

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[8mmMauser]

Washington events as posted in the Baltimore Sun...

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12:30 p.m. SCHIAVO — Bobby Schindler, brother of Terri Schiavo, and Robert Destro and David Gibbs, legal counsel to the Schindler family, will discuss the Schindler family's legal and legislative battle to halt the removal of Schiavo's feeding tube, sponsored by Georgetown University.
Location: Georgetown University Law Center, 12th floor, 120 F St. NW.

Swamp Sunrise

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[fatnotlazy]

True. But for some people disability or serious or chronic illness is enough for them to want to end it all.

And remember, as far as I know, these individuals sought out Dr. Kevorkian. He didn’t just come to their homes or hospitals and force death upon them. It was their choice.

[dfwgator]

And remember, as far as I know, these individuals sought out Dr. Kevorkian. He didn’t just come to their homes or hospitals and force death upon them. It was their choice.

So I take it you're also pro-choice when it comes to abortion?

[fatnotlazy]

So I take it you’re also pro-choice when it comes to abortion?

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No. Because “pro choice” is no choice for the baby.

[floriduh voter]

BIG NEWS: KEVORKIAN WAS POSTPONED AT U OF F cuz the school is reeling from the tasered student who said, "Don't taze me bro." It seems that students are getting t-shirts made for Dr. K's visit that say, "Don't kill me, bro."

It's supposedly postponed until January. www.sptimes.com

KEVORKIAN POSTPONED FOR UF SPEECH!

[8mmMauser]

A fitting closing to the September Terri Dailies thread is this moment, "Don't taze me, bro!" Signed, Jack the Dripper...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The University of Florida is postponing an appearance by Dr. Jack Kevorkian after the controversy over police use of a Taser on a student during Sen. John Kerry's speech, officials said Monday.

School officials said they need more time to address security and events management policies and procedures. They cited the problems during the arrest of 21-year-old student Andrew Meyer as the reason for the change, according to a news release.

Kevorkian's visit, which will include a panel discussion of assisted suicide with professors, was postponed from Oct. 11 to Jan. 15.

Taser Flap Nixes Kevorkian Speech at UF

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[8mmMauser]

Thanks for that, FV!

[wagglebee]

Well isn’t that just too bad, John sKerry went and got Dr. Death cancelled.