Elanor Clift just may have been understanding of Terri's plight, but the sway of the left is more powerful than life itself in those who give themselves over to that side. The mantras of lies prevail. Nothing personal.
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Eleanor Clift came to UMKC to discuss the Terry Schiavo case, not because it is still relevant, but because while Schiavo lay dying in the hospital, Clift's husband was also dying.
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Clift's husband, Tom Brazaitis, was diagnosed with metastatic kidney cancer five years before he died. Brazaitis died the day before Schiavo. Clift joked her husband was very competitive.
"He had the journalistic good sense to die the day before Terry Schiavo," Clift said.
Clift's husband was in a hospice when he died. She was thankful to the hospice staff for their help.
Clift spoke about the Schiavo case and the role it has in the book she is writing, "Two Weeks of Life." The book is about her husband's death and the Schiavo case.
Terry Schiavo was in a vegetative state for 15 years. Her husband, Michael Schiavo, was trying to remove her feeding tube for the third time. The previous two times he ordered it taken out, Schiavo's parents went to court and gotten the feeding tube put back in.
When the case went to Congress, the media focused attention on it. Clift said Congress was shocked to find the U.S. population didn't think they should be deciding the case.
"Eighty-two percent of Americans thought Congress shouldn't get involved [in the case]," Clift said.
She pointed out her book will not be political. It portrays Schiavo's parents and brother sympathetically.
She said the main issue in the Schiavo case was who decided what would happen to Schiavo: her husband or her family.
Schiavo's husband won the case when he presented enough evidence to indicate his wife wouldn't want to live in a vegetative state.
Newsweek editor speaks at UMKC: Clift wrote about one death while watching her husband die
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Gabriel Stansfield
A New Jersey family is hoping for a court hearing today to regain physical custody of their 8-month-old son, who is being detained now at Morristown Memorial Hospital on the order of the state Division of Youth and Family Services.
"The only thing the family appears guilty of is standing up to the heavy handed approach of the Sussex County office [of the agency]," said Mike Donnelly, a lawyer with the Home School Legal Defense Association.
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Here it comes, "Not a day goes by."
God Bless the memory of Terri and freepers who have passed recently. They were part and parcel of Terri's freepers and their contributions to these threads are sorely missed. FV