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American Life League: Do Not Remove Lauren’s Feeding Tube
Yahoo News ^ | 2/1/08 | American Life League

Posted on 02/03/2008 10:18:11 AM PST by wagglebee

Contact: Michael Hichborn of American Life League, 1-540-226-9178

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Judie Brown, president of American Life League, released the following statement concerning an order by Delaware Court of Chancery Master Sam Glasscockon to give guardianship of Lauren Richardson to her mother, who wants to remove Lauren's feeding tube.

Lauren is 23 years of age and, due to a heroin overdose, is now in a persistent vegetative state. At the time of the overdose, Lauren was expecting the birth of her baby and reports indicate that she was kept alive to allow her to give birth, which she did in February of last year. Her daughter is now about to celebrate her first birthday, but Lauren may never have another birthday.

Of interest is the fact that, during the pregnancy, Lauren relied on feeding tubes and a breathing machine to keep her alive. Today Lauren has a feeding tube only. But there is a struggle going on regarding whether or not Lauren will live or die.

Lauren's case is more than a sad commentary on the plight of a family battling over what each of the opponents believes would be in her best interest. Her story is a testimony to the growing philosophy in this country that some, because of their condition, are better off dead than alive.

Like Terri Schiavo before her, Lauren is not dying nor is she in a terminal condition. She has been diagnosed as someone in a persistent vegetative state, someone who is very much alive but locked in her body and unable to express her desires to anyone. The only thing Lauren is relying on is a feeding tube without which she will starve to death. Lauren's mother, who is Laurens guardian, wants the feeding tube removed while Lauren's father is fighting to keep Lauren alive.

This family is in our prayers. We hope that, in the interest of respecting Lauren's dignity as a human being whose future improvement or lack thereof is known only to God, the court will listen carefully to those who argue in favor of Lauren's right to life. It is a tragedy beyond description when any human beings fate rests solely on the subjective opinion of others, some of whom truly believe that patients like Lauren have no quality of life and therefore are better off dead.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: all; euthanasia; fakesubsistence; laurenrichardson; moralabsolutes; prolife
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To: Balding_Eagle

Anuzer useless eater! What’s a hitler to do?????


281 posted on 04/21/2008 4:28:38 PM PDT by floriduh voter (FL Gov. Crist "This is America. I can wear whatever I want. I believe in freedom." You go, girl.)
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To: floriduh voter; Balding_Eagle; bjs1779; 8mmMauser; BykrBayb; Lesforlife; MHGinTN; Mr. Silverback
Terri got a perm for $80.00. Shame on her. She deserved to have her larynx crushed from behind by a future male nurse.... (sarcasm tag)

Well, "unfortunately, as with a lot of people, she allowed herself to get in a postion where her own death was the most likely outcome."

Basically, Terri failed to "think of a person walking through a really bad part of town, at night, without taking the gun offered them for free.

(See Post #213 for clarification.)

282 posted on 04/21/2008 4:41:06 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: MHGinTN; BykrBayb
OCTOBER 1939. Extermination of disabled begins.

http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/euthanasia.htm

(We are the white rose. Where's the rose in remembrance of Sophie's sacrifice?)

283 posted on 04/21/2008 4:56:00 PM PDT by floriduh voter (FL Gov. Crist "This is America. I can wear whatever I want. I believe in freedom." You go, girl.)
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To: wagglebee
T-4 PROGRAM. FV SAYS: At first the disabled or even ill people were gassed. After the Bishop did a sermon, the gassing stopped and the disabled and the sick were DRUGGED AND STARVED TO DEATH instead. Sounds like hostage woodside to me.

EXCERPT HERE: August 3, 1941, a Catholic Bishop, Clemens von Galen, delivered a sermon in Münster Cathedral attacking the Nazi euthanasia program calling it "plain murder." The sermon sent a shockwave through the Nazi leadership by publicly condemning the program and urged German Catholics to "withdraw ourselves and our faithful from their (Nazi) influence so that we may not be contaminated by their thinking and their ungodly behavior."

As a result, on August 23, Hitler suspended Aktion T4, which had accounted for nearly a hundred thousand deaths by this time.

The Nazis retaliated against the Bishop by beheading three parish priests who had distributed his sermon, but left the Bishop unharmed to avoid making him into a martyr.

However, the Nazi euthanasia program quietly continued, but without the widespread gassings. Drugs and starvation were used instead and doctors were encouraged to decide in favor of death whenever euthanasia was being considered.

FV SAYS: "plain murder" just like the courageous Bishop. Deathbots on these threads should read this entire link posted above. Their group think is straight out of the Nazi playbook.

284 posted on 04/21/2008 5:11:35 PM PDT by floriduh voter (FL Gov. Crist "This is America. I can wear whatever I want. I believe in freedom." You go, girl.)
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To: floriduh voter; 8mmMauser; BykrBayb; bjs1779
Drugs and starvation were used instead and doctors were encouraged to decide in favor of death whenever euthanasia was being considered.

Sounds disturbingly familiar.

285 posted on 04/21/2008 5:13:46 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: MHGinTN
This could be now instead of from 1940s.

"Drugs and starvation were used instead and doctors were encouraged to decide in favor of death whenever euthanasia was being considered."

"in favor of death" spells MURDER.

286 posted on 04/21/2008 5:13:57 PM PDT by floriduh voter (FL Gov. Crist "This is America. I can wear whatever I want. I believe in freedom." You go, girl.)
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To: wagglebee
From the actual link, you can click on the Bishop's Sermon, the one who wasn't beheaded. Plain murder hasn't changed much since 1941.

Let Lauren Live.

287 posted on 04/21/2008 5:15:24 PM PDT by floriduh voter (FL Gov. Crist "This is America. I can wear whatever I want. I believe in freedom." You go, girl.)
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To: wagglebee

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005200

Another link. The buses had windows so you couldn’t see inside. Remember how the death cultists hid Terri so her true condition would remain hidden? This is another link worth bookmarking. Folks, it’s plain murder.


288 posted on 04/21/2008 5:21:09 PM PDT by floriduh voter (FL Gov. Crist "This is America. I can wear whatever I want. I believe in freedom." You go, girl.)
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To: floriduh voter; 8mmMauser; BykrBayb; bjs1779
In Nazi usage, however, "euthanasia" was a euphemistic term for a clandestine program which targeted for systematic killing institutionalized mentally and physically disabled patients, without the knowledge or consent of themselves or their families.

Yep, still sounds familiar.

289 posted on 04/21/2008 5:22:49 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: floriduh voter

290 posted on 04/21/2008 5:39:24 PM PDT by Lesforlife ("For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb . . ." Psalm 139:13!!!!!)
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To: wagglebee; 8mmMauser

If McCain picks Pontius Pilate for VP, he’ll definitely lose.


291 posted on 04/21/2008 5:42:59 PM PDT by floriduh voter (FL Gov. Crist "This is America. I can wear whatever I want. I believe in freedom." You go, girl.)
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To: Balding_Eagle
Unfortunately, as with a lot of people, she allowed herself to get in a postion where her own death was the most likely outcome.

In other words, Michael killed her. Sometimes I wonder why I am a pro psycho site.

292 posted on 04/21/2008 5:54:54 PM PDT by bjs1779
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To: bjs1779

Sometimes I wonder why I am [on] a pro psycho site.


293 posted on 04/21/2008 5:58:58 PM PDT by bjs1779
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To: bjs1779
Hey, don't you think we could make more money if we bumped off some more disabled people?

As I pointed out to Balding Eagle, if we start starving all the people on Socdial Security disability, we could save so much monney the system might stay solvent for a few more years.

294 posted on 04/21/2008 9:08:42 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback (It's not conservative to accept an inept Commander-in-Chief in a time of war. Back Mac.)
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To: Balding_Eagle; wagglebee
You said it was her fault. You said she got herself in a positio where her husband, who you have admitted was an unfit guardian, could kill her. Well, how is that any different from saying that a rape victim put herself in a position to be raped?

You keep saying she wouldn't have been in this situation if she had filled out the right paperwork. Well, she wouldn't have been in it if her husband weren't trying to kill her or if the judge had done his job, either, but you don't seem to get that.

295 posted on 04/21/2008 9:36:10 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback (It's not conservative to accept an inept Commander-in-Chief in a time of war. Back Mac.)
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To: Mr. Silverback; Balding_Eagle; 8mmMauser; floriduh voter; BykrBayb
You keep saying she wouldn't have been in this situation if she had filled out the right paperwork.

And this also overlooks a very critical fact. As part of nearly all advance medical directives and living (dying) wills is a medical power of attorney because someone has to be authorized to make certain decisions. And, in nearly every case, this power of attorney goes to the spouse; so, Terri might very well have been killed MUCH SOONER if she had prepared any such documents.

Let's not forget that at the time of Terri's "accident" feeding tubes WERE NOT considered to be life support under Florida law, the law was changed later to include them. However, as the courts routinely disregarded and violated the law in Terri's case, it is unlikely that an ex poste facto law would have mattered.

296 posted on 04/22/2008 5:03:13 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: 8mmMauser

BUMP


297 posted on 04/22/2008 8:19:55 AM PDT by Dante3
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To: wagglebee
I've got a question for you, my family is very wealthy, if I needed medical treatment money wouldn't even be an issue (not to mention that I have excellent health insurance, and disability insurance, and long-term care insurance), so why do you believe that my life is worth more than your life? I don't think my life is worth more than yours, I'm certain God doesn't think my life is worth more than yours, help me understand why you don't feel the same way.

Because, if we both got very ill, an illness that required ' lot of doctoring' as they say, you would have more financial resources to throw at the problem.

I have a million dollars, you may have ten or a hundred times as much. If the condition was curable for, say two million, one of us would make it, and one wouldn't.

That's how life is in a capitalistic society, which is an awful society, but all the others are much worse.

298 posted on 04/22/2008 4:29:30 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
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To: floriduh voter
Here we go...

:

"We will not be silent. We are your bad conscience. The White Rose will give you no rest."

299 posted on 04/23/2008 3:07:43 AM PDT by 8mmMauser (Jezu ufam tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
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To: floriduh voter
HERE'S ONE FOR LAUREN RICHARDSON With thanks to Breakpoint!!

THE POPE BLESSES THE DISABLED

APRIL 21, 2008

The pope and the disabled by Gina Dalfonzo

One of Pope Benedict XVI's "most intimate public event[s]" during his trip to the United States was his blessing of a group of disabled youths and their caregivers in Yonkers, New York. He told them:

God's unconditional love, which bathes every human individual, points to a meaning and purpose for all human life. . . . Through his cross, Jesus in fact draws us into his saving love and in so doing shows us the way ahead -- the way of hope which transfigures us all, so that we too, become bearers of that hope and charity for others.

Sadly, according to this Catholic PRWire release, the pope learned this fundamental lesson in an unspeakably tragic way.

As a boy of fourteen, Joseph Ratzinger had a cousin who had been born with Down's Syndrome, only a bit younger than himself. In 1941, German state "therapists" came to the boy's house and probably informed the parents of the government regulation that prohibited mentally handicapped children from remaining in their parents' home. In spite of the family's pleas, the representatives of the Nazi state took the child away. The Ratzinger family never saw him again. Later the family learned that he had "died," most likely murdered, for being merely "undesirable," a blemish in the race, and a drain on the productivity of the nation. This was Joseph Ratzinger's first experience of a murderous philosophy that asserts that some people are disposable.

At a time when children with Down syndrome are once again being systematically slaughtered, may the pope's experience with "a murderous philosophy that asserts that some people are "disposable," and his resulting understanding of the value of each human life, help bring us to our senses.

And with deep appreciation to Unborn Word of the Day comes this powerful quote from Pope Benedict:

“Life, which is a work of God, should not be denied to anyone, even the tiniest and most defenseless unborn child, and far less to a child with serious disabilities. At the same time, echoing the Pastors of the Church in Italy, I advise you not to fall into the deceptive trap of thinking that life can be disposed of, to the point of ‘legitimizing its interruption with euthanasia, even if it is masked by a veil of human compassion’

Benedict XVI, Angelus

St Peter’s Square Sunday, 4 February 2007

These important issues are explored in the fabulous new Ben Stein movie, Expelled, which this weekend propelled into the box office top ten spot!!


300 posted on 04/23/2008 7:58:12 AM PDT by Lesforlife ("For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb . . ." Psalm 139:13!!!!!)
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