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Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation Thanks Holy See for Reaffirming Obligation to Care for Disabled
Christian Newswire ^ | 9/14/07 | The Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation

Posted on 09/15/2007 1:38:21 PM PDT by wagglebee

Vatican Statement Defends Pope John Paul II’s 2004 Allocution on the Moral Obligation to Care for and Show Compassion for All People Like Terri

Contact: Suzanne Vitadamo, The Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation, 727-490-7603, info@terrisfight.org

ST. PETERSBURG, Fl., Sept. 14  /Christian Newswire/ -- By issuing its latest statement on the obligation to feed and hydrate those persons deemed to be in a "vegetative" or even comatose state, the Vatican today reiterated its two thousand year old teaching that all human life is sacred and deserving of our care, no matter its condition. The Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation (Terri's Foundation) wishes to extend its sincere thanks to the Holy See for again repeating this vital truth.

Even if a person is severely injured, compromised or otherwise limited in his or her abilities, they still retain their "fundamental human dignity and must, therefore, receive ordinary and proportionate care" according to the Vatican. This includes providing them both food and water, even if by artificial means.

It is our fervent hope that the clergy, religious and those who administer Catholic health care, as well as the laity who persistently ignored the basic right to life of our daughter and sister Terri, and who persist to this day to dissent from this basic moral teaching of the Church by claiming that Pope John Paul II's March 20th allocution is "up for discussion", will begin to open their eyes and hearts to the immutable and incontrovertible truth re-affirmed by the Holy See today.

"We find it sad that many of those who claim to speak on behalf of the betterment of society and concern for the poor were against Terri and our efforts to care for her," said Robert Schindler, Terri's father. 

As the Associated Press was quick to point out, "the Vatican condemned [Terri] Schiavo's death as 'arbitrarily hastened' and called the removal of her feeding tube a violation of the principles of Christianity and civilization."

Our fight continues every day to defend the lives of vulnerable persons threatened by new laws which redefine feeding tubes as "artificial life support" and also "medical futility" laws that allow hospitals, nursing and hospice facilities and family members to abandon our fellow human beings to a torturous death by starvation and dehydration or by any other means.

As we stated to His Eminence, Cardinal William Joseph Levada, Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in April of 2006, "Our goal is to defend the rights of our severely brain-injured or otherwise disabled brothers and sisters in the hope of preventing what happened to our Terri from ever happening to another."

Today's statement from the Vatican moves us much closer toward that goal.

About the Schindler Family: Mary and Robert Schindler as well as Suzanne Schindler Vitadamo and Bobby Schindler now work for The Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation in St. Petersburg, Florida, an organization dedicated to promoting the Culture of Life, embracing the true meaning of compassion by opposing the practice of euthanasia.



TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: moralabsolutes; prolife; terrischiavo; vatican
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To: SmoothTalker
Her spirit had left her body years before. It was time to let her body go. Thousands of Americans make the tough choice to let a loved one who is suffering or who have no chance of every waking go every year.

You are terribly mistaken about Terri, she was not in any sort of a coma and hadn't been for years.

This case (where there was more reason to let her go than most) was only different because shameless people turned it into a political cause and fooled a lot of good people.

You're right, Michael Schiavo went to court to illegally murder his wife to cover up a crime. He found a judge who was willing to break state and federal laws. And finally, the culture of death duped a large part of the public on the matter.

61 posted on 09/16/2007 8:51:54 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: presently no screen name
"Why?"

Nobody knows why. No judge has ever issued an order like that before. Only him, guided by a death freak named Geroge Felos.

When Bobby and Suzanne tried to feed Terri some pudding after her tube was pulled in 2001, Greer punished them by disallowing them to visit Terri for a period of time. Greer had his mind made up that she was going to die long before he was actually able to pull it off.

62 posted on 09/16/2007 4:09:09 PM PDT by bjs1779
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To: presently no screen name
ORDERED AND ADJUDGED the Respondents' Emergency
Expedited Motion for Permission to Provide Theresa Schiavo with food
and Water by Natural Means is is DENIED.
DONE AND ORDERED in Clearwater, Pinellas County, Florida, this 8 day of March, 2005.

It is clear that the credible testimony was that given by Dr. Bamhill for various reasons, not the least of which is that he has examined Terri Schiavo and reviewed her medical records.

While the attorney for the Respondents did get him to acknowledge that he could not say with certainty how much of her nutritional requirement she might be able to ingest orrally, he was quite positve that in no way could she comsume enough in the manner to sustain herself.

The court does not feel that another medical procedue merely to specify what portion of insufficiency would result from the removal of the feeding tube warrants the granting of the Petition.

Accordingly, It is ORDERED AND ADJUDGED that the Petition for Order Aurthorizing Evaluation, be and the same is hereby denied.

Full ruling here:

http://judgegeorgegreer.com/docs/030805orderdenyfood.pdf

63 posted on 09/16/2007 4:34:23 PM PDT by bjs1779
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To: bjs1779

yes, I know - I followed it. Just thought you may have had some new insight. There is only one reason in mind when ordering ‘no food or drink allowed’ to anyone - and that is to kill them.


64 posted on 09/16/2007 4:41:05 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: presently no screen name
There is only one reason in mind when ordering ‘no food or drink allowed’ to anyone - and that is to kill them.

And that makes it MURDER.

65 posted on 09/16/2007 4:45:47 PM PDT by bjs1779
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To: wagglebee
she was not in any sort of a coma

how true yet those that were brainwashed by the MSM - this is their mindset. Even though there were pictures of her looking at her mom, etc, testimony from Dr. Hammesfar - it was all ignored.
66 posted on 09/16/2007 5:02:20 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: presently no screen name
Even though there were pictures of her looking at her mom, etc, testimony from Dr. Hammesfar - it was all ignored.

The culture of death hated this video also.

http://gordonwatts.com/ConversationWithTerri.wmv

67 posted on 09/16/2007 5:20:15 PM PDT by bjs1779
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To: bjs1779
Exactly - court appointed murder through starvation and dehydration on a innocent person who happened to be disabled who felt pain and cried out - 'no' - when told them were going to disconnect her feeding tube. She knew what that meant.
68 posted on 09/16/2007 5:22:16 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: presently no screen name
Exactly - court appointed murder through starvation and dehydration on a innocent person who happened to be disabled who felt pain and cried out - 'no' - when told them were going to disconnect her feeding tube. She knew what that meant.

Pity to the judge who would of done that to Charlie Manson.

69 posted on 09/16/2007 5:24:33 PM PDT by bjs1779
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To: presently no screen name

“First of all Terris not a poor soul. She is walking on streets of gold with not a care.”

Would you please be so kind as to tell me where you got your information?


70 posted on 09/16/2007 5:33:34 PM PDT by Renatus
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To: Renatus; presently no screen name

First, would you please explain why you question such a claim?


71 posted on 09/16/2007 6:28:54 PM PDT by BykrBayb (In memory of my Friend T'wit. ~ Þ)
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To: Renatus; BykrBayb
Renatus, BykrBayb brings up an even better question for you.

.....explain why you question such a claim?
72 posted on 09/16/2007 7:26:28 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: bjs1779
Pity to the judge who would of done that to Charlie Manson.

Exactly. The Death Culture doesn't kill those who lust after murder - they are already of one mindset - they go after the innocent, the lovely. Evil hates goodness.
73 posted on 09/16/2007 7:40:56 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: BykrBayb

I don’t question such a claim. I was just trying to find
out where you found out where her soul is. I have been praying for her but won’t have to do it anymore if you
can tell me how you found out that she is in heaven.


74 posted on 09/16/2007 8:05:45 PM PDT by Renatus
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To: Renatus

I still don’t understand your questioning..
1. To Whom do you pray to?
2. When praying for Terri, what are you praying for?
3. Where do you think her spirit is?


75 posted on 09/16/2007 8:30:31 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: wagglebee

Ah yes the she was walking, chewing gum, riding a unicycle, and juggling myth again.


76 posted on 09/17/2007 1:44:12 PM PDT by SmoothTalker
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To: SmoothTalker; bjs1779; Mr. Silverback; Sun; 8mmMauser; BykrBayb; floriduh voter

Please find ANY evidence that Terri was in any way unconscious when the feeding tube was removed.

You are trying to make a claim that her estranged husband and his ghoulish attorneys didn’t even put forth.


77 posted on 09/17/2007 1:51:03 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: presently no screen name

In answer to your 3 questions:

1. I pray to God.

2. I pray that God will free Terri from Purgatory if she
is there.

3. Where do I think her spirit is? It is in either heaven,
hell or purgatory.

You put her in heaven and still haven’t answered my question
asking — where did you get your information.


78 posted on 09/17/2007 6:36:58 PM PDT by Renatus
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To: Renatus
You put her in heaven

You give me way too much power. I can't put Terri anywhere - Terri put herself in heaven by her decision in believing that Jesus is her Savior who died for her sins. Absent from the body, present with The Lord. 2Cor 5:8

where did you get your information.

From God's Word - The Truth.
79 posted on 09/17/2007 10:09:20 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: wagglebee
Terri was SCREAMING when she was advised the feeding tube was coming out. She knew being that this was their FOURTH attempt (MIKEY, ET AL WHO WERE AFTER HER.) Mikey guarded her while she was heinously tortured for almost two weeks. How vile to watch someone suffer for two weeks and at the time as currently, he was a SHERIFF EMPLOYEE, just like the mother of his current wife was.

Meanwhile, in Gainesville, FL a guy asking JOHN KERRY a question at the mike, was pounced on by female deputies and THEN TAZERED. His parents are going to be on FOX NEWS.

FLORIDA IS A POLICE STATE and tazers are used way too much ending in numerous deaths. They use female deputies to disguise the obvious.

As much as I hate to pay for state sponsored criminal negligence, I hope his parents SUE the pants off of that County.

So many incidents of criminal negligence by Florida's police! Pick your poison: starvation/dehydration or TAZER? Visit Florida and they'll choose for you.

80 posted on 09/18/2007 6:38:21 AM PDT by floriduh voter (Terri Anti-Euthanasia Ping List: 8mmmauser DUNCAN HUNTER FOR PRESIDENT OF U.S.)
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