Terri Schiavo's Family Calls for Observance of Terri's Day to Honor Disabled Woman

Life News ^ | 3/31/08 | Steven Ertelt

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St. Petersburg, FL (LifeNews.com) -- Terri Schiavo's family and a leading pro-life group are calling on people to honor the disabled woman whose husband took her life in a painful euthanasia death. Together with Priests for Life, the Schindler family has established the observance of “Terri’s Day” each March 31.

That's the day Terri succumbed to a 13-day starvation and dehydration death at the hand of Michael Schiavo, her former husband who won a court order to take her life.

“This third anniversary should be an occasion for all of us to both remember the injustice done to Terri, and reach out to others with prayer and concrete action when they need the kind of help Terri needed," Terri's brother Bobby Schindler told LifeNews.com on Monday.

Suzanne Vitadamo, Terri’s sister, added that Terri's Day is also a way for her family to encourage others to take better care of the elderly and disabled.

“Our family continues to be consoled and uplifted by the many ways in which people honor my sister, learn from her story, and grow in compassion for all the disabled," she said.

During the days leading up to Terri's death, Father Frank Pavone of Priests for Life brought comfort and peace to the Schindler family.

Father Pavone was present for the final prayer Terri participated in before her death. He also saw the manipulative ways Michael tried to prevent the Schindler family from caring for her or being present with her during the starvation and dehydration.

“Terri’s death was not the end of her fight," he told LifeNews.com. "It was the beginning of a new chapter in the pro-life movement."

"I call upon all those who were moved by Terri’s death to continue their courageous activism in the cause of life, and never to be silent," he said.

Together, Priests for Life and the Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation encourage churches, families, organizations and individuals to observe Terri’s Day with prayers, memorial services, educational activities and community outreach.

Related web sites:
Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation - http://www.terrisfight.org
Priests for Life - http://www.priestsforlife.org

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Looking worse for Florida! If the guy who left was conservative, what is in store?

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Gov. Charlie Crist will make one of his most historic decisions as he considers a selection to replace Supreme Court Justice Raoul Cantero.

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It seems likely Crist will be provided a list of candidates favorable to his moderate views. He appointed three of the JNC’s nine members – Jason Unger, Robert Hackleman and Howard Coker. Hackleman is a lawyer with Gunster Yoakley & Stewart, the firm whose new chairman is George LeMieux, Crist’s former campaign manger and chief of staff.....................

Crist's Supreme chance

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Governor Suntan is at another crossroads. He’ll pick somebody who watched his back when he was the worst Atty General Fla ever had bar none (including Janet Reno).

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Whomever Charlie picks, there’s a real good chance the fla supremes will strike down a lot of what the legislator does and what the voters voted for.

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Jeb picked Cantero. I wonder why Cantero’s really leaving. He’s quite young for a judge to leave such a lucrative position.

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"It was a proud moment for us that we were able to reach a unanimous decision," Cantero said. "We were able to work through the issues dispassionately.".....

It's mid-morning here, and reading this makes me glad I skipped breakfast.

I will never understand how anyone who had any part, however small, in murdering, yes, MURDERING, an innocent disabled woman, can feel pride in not trying to do something to stop what was an execution, one that if it had been carried out on a domestic animal would have warranted the owner a felony conviction in many places.

Cantero, and the others like him who had a part in this, will have to answer in another life for their actions and non-actions, and I doubt that a plea of lack of knowledge of all the facts, or the necessity of returning an unanimous verdict will mitigate the guilt for Terri's murder.

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Good riddance to bad rubbish.

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My questions also - most conservative?

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Reminding us of Andrea Clark...

Texas treatment treated on this blog on Medical Futility. Thanks, Les, for the tip.

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In Texas, when a patient's surrogate asks a health care provider to provide life-sustaining treatment that the provider deems medically inappropriate, the provider may refuse so long as (1) she gets confirmation from her facility's ethics committee and (2) she gives the surrogate an opportunity to transfer the patient to another facility willing to provide the requested treatment.

To help surrogates navigate the transfer process, the Texas Advance Directives Act established a "registry" of providers willing to accept transfers of patients who want LSMT that their current facility is unwilling to provide. But the registry is comprised primarily of lawyers "willing to receive requests for legal counsel from families that are going through a transfer." And Texas Right to Life states that it is "willing to help transfer to a facility that provides treatment." Even with such help, transfers are very hard to find.

But perhaps there is a solution. Either UCLA could list itself on the Texas registry or at least TRL and the Texas law firms could focus on UCLA as a potential transferee. As recently reported in the 2008 Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care, the UCLA Medical Center was by far the most aggressive in managing chronic illness, as measured by the use of medical specialists and intensive care units, as well as the total number of physician visits.

(chart from NYT) Medicare spent an average of $52,911 for U.C.L.A. patients but only $28,763 for those who used the Mayo Clinic hospital.

Take just one tangential illustration: the Nataline Sarkisyan case. Cigna got a lot of flack for refusing to cover a liver transplant for this girl with leukemia and multiple organ failure. But it did appear that UCLA recommendation for the transplant was far more aggressive than not only the independent reviewers whom Cigna used but also more aggressive than other leading medical centers like UCSF and Baylor.

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Texas Right to Life, Transfer Patients to UCLA

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Thanks, Les...

Another 'Dead' Man Now Recovering

Dateline NBC recently ran this story about Zach Dunlap. 21-year-old Zach had flipped his ATV and suffered a serious brain injury.

His doctor ordered a blood flow scan to determine if there was any blood still coursing through Zack’s brain. Zach's mom explained, "The doctor took us in and showed us the image on the computer. And he told us the dark areas will be the areas where there's no blood flow to the brain . . . and that was the whole brain. That was the whole thing. It was just black." Zach was declared brain dead. As Zach's doctor explained, "he was dead. He meets the legal, medical requirements for declaring a patient brain dead. "

The facts suggest that the brain death tests were accurately performed. But hours after being declared dead, his doctors detected "purposeful movements." He was not dead after all. As MSNBC reports, "tests can be fallible . . . [and] doctors here haven't been able to explain Zack’s return from a scientific standpoint."

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Sure as death and taxes is the drone of death bots. Whining may be heard afar from these poor critters cheered only by deaths. Killing the unborn is a thankless lot of work and is rough on the nails, too. I can only post an excerpt from this site.

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The bill requires these women to pay for the ultrasound, which could be a few hundred dollars and is just an additional barrier placed in the paths of those who feel, for whatever personal reason, they are unable to have a child at this time.

All this in order to make a hard decision even more punitive. When protection of human life is less concerned with the living and is preoccupied with the lesser-developed existence, then we certainly should re-prioritize. The protection of the embryo and the developing fetus appears to be on a higher agenda for the conservatives in the Republican Party. The philosophy within the party stresses individual responsibility. Social Security, Medicare and other reforms that try to protect the weakest in our society are programs that the Republicans feel take away from individual responsibility.............

Legislature favoring unborn over the born, again

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Living wills again and again are brought up, not mention of the "Will to Live" promoted by our side.

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History will be made Wednesday. Approximately 50 of the most prominent national health-care, religious and legal associations and organizations, as well as countless others, will participate in the inaugural National Health Care Decisions Day. The goal of this nationwide initiative is to ensure that American adults have both the information and the opportunity to communicate and document their future health-care decisions.

While making health-care decisions is often difficult in the best of circumstances, making decisions for others is even more complicated. As Terri Schiavo’s situation vividly revealed, having an advance directive can be valuable for all adults, regardless of current age or health status. Yet, fewer than 25 percent of all Americans have one. For an action that can be done without a lawyer, for free, and relatively easily, this figure is astonishingly low............

Historic day for our health

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Head strong meets head weak...

A view from different prism makes these ramblings a bit comical. Here you have good ole Bucks County in Pennsylvania registering a whole bunch of new Democrats in time for the primaries. Explanation has nothing to do with Rush Limbaugh's Operation Chaos which goes unmentioned as a factor, but tells us conservative Republicans are fed up with that limp wristed weak kneed swamp of GOP known as RINOS as just to "conservative". Huh? Yep. Naturally, they have the factors separating the lefties from the right, and part of that big five is, yes, we guessed it, Terri's Legacy.

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It's not that the party isn't conservative enough to win the suburbs; it is that the party is too conservative and has lost touch with a suburban constituency.

Fault for that lies in the party's national image. Impressions of political parties are established nationally. People don't usually join a political organization based on their sense of the county commissioners, the competence of the row officers, or the performance of the borough council. They choose the party whose platform, they believe, most closely resembles their general views. And those platforms flow from the federal level. They are personified by national players.

In Washington, the GOP has been on the wrong side of many hot-button issues. As these issues have unfolded - the war in Iraq, Terri Schiavo, global warming, stem-cell research, and the ever-present issue of reproductive choice - the Democratic Party has made strides in the suburbs. Instead of listening to its more-moderate voices, the GOP has instead concentrated on stoking its hard-core base - a minority of Americans - by taking time out of the legislative schedule to posture on issues such as same-sex relationships...............

Head Strong: Why the GOP lost its grip on Phila. suburbs

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We can make no mistake about the beast we face. He appears in many forms, on many battlefronts, but his father is always the same. Mr Silverback has a video which may be disturbing to some in his thread linked below. The beast is always disturbing, just not seen so well as here. His face changes but his nature is the same. Thanks, BB, for the ping.

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Here's the first segment of video from the Baby Napalm incident. I'm reposting the description from this thread where I posted links to the transcript.

In Rockford, Illinois, an abortion clinic known as the Northern Illinois Women's Center performs abortions twice a week. On March 29, the clinic was open for business. Two dedicated pro-life activists were there for sidewalk counseling and prayer.

A neighborhood resident, Keith, arrived to accost them, making illegal physical contact with one of the men in the first moments of his criminal freakout, issuing forth a stream of vile racial and sexual epithets, threatening the men with his dog, and even voicing his approval for what he himself calls child killing. After a seven minute spree of misdemeanors and behavior that some viewers have described as "demonic," the abortion clinic operator, Wayne Webster, warns Keith that the police are coming and the two make it very clear that Webster has no problem with this vile activity. When police arrive over an hour later, they do nothing about the attack, treat the pro-lifers and their right to free speech derisively and are uninterested when they are informed that there is video evidence of a crime available to them. You see, Keith and Wayne performed for a camera that was in plain sight....

The Baby Napalm Video: Footage of Racist Assault on Pro-Lifers

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Sun peeks through the dark clouds. Thread by wagglebee.

Madrid, Spain (LifeNews.com) -- A respected European oncologist has changed her mind about euthanasia after battling cancer. Sylvie Menard's change of heart has one leading anti-euthanasia activist to urge people not to abandon the elderly and disabled patients who need love and support the most as they battle medical problems.

Menard, one of the most renowned oncologists in Europe, has been battling bone cancer and she shared her transformation on end-of-life issues with the Spanish magazine Huellas....

Respected European Oncologist Opposes Euthanasia After Cancer Battle

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Troubles in the used parts sector in a thread by freerepublic_or_die with thanks to TheSarce for the ping.

With her mother desperately in need of a transplant, Laura Ashworth told family and friends she wanted to donate one of her kidneys.

So when the 21-year-old died after an asthma attack, it seemed that the tragedy would at least give Rachel Leake a chance of a healthy new life. But because Laura had not begun the formal process of becoming a "living donor," the authorities refused to let her mother receive her organs. Instead they went to strangers at the top of the waiting list.......

Mother Needing Transplant Refused Dead Daughter's Kidney Despite Girl's Deathbed Plea

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We can be assured the Obama Nation will be on the side of the critter in the video in post #173 upthread. I can imagine easily that beastly image with B.O. outside a Hussain asylum.

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Barack Obama has voted against every limit on abortion as a member of the U.S. Senate -- including repeated votes against making sure taxpayers aren't forced to pay for abortions here or overseas. But Obama told the media on Friday that no one, including him, is pro-abortion.

As LifeNews.com reported, Obama's campaign announced a new contingent of Catholics who are supporting his presidential bid....

Barack Obama Claims He's Not "Pro-Abortion," Abortion Not a "Good Thing"

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Surprise, surprise! Thread by wagglebee...

DUBLIN, April 11, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Girls who become sexually active before age 17 are almost 70 percent more likely to experience a crisis pregnancy in later life and three times more likely to procure abortion in their lifetime than those who wait until they are older, according to a study released by the Irish Crisis Pregnancy Agency.

The Irish Study of Sexual Health and Relationships, the largest nationally representative study on sexual knowledge, attitudes and behaviour ever undertaken in Ireland, was published by the Department of Health and the Crisis Pregnancy Agency (CPA) today.....

Teen Sex Linked To Regret and Abortions in Later Adult Life

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Hillary, being observant and savvy if not likeable, understands the impact of Terri's Legacy to the point she dare not challenge it for fear of the losses that would bring.

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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- During the faith debate at Messiah College on Sunday night, pro-abortion Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama largely avoided a question about whether patients should be allowed to have a right to assisted suicide or euthanasia.

Clinton was asked if she "believe[s] it is compassionate, that it is appropriate to let someone who is really suffering choose to end their life."

"Again, this is one of those incredibly challenging issues," she responded.

"You know, the Terri Schiavo case in Florida posed that for many people," Clinton added, referring to the case of a disabled woman whose former husband won the legal right to subject her a painful 13-day starvation and dehydration euthanasia death.

She called the Schiavo case one where "there were people of good faith and people of strong feelings on both sides about what should happen to that woman's life."

Ultimately, Clinton said she was unsure whether government should allow assisted suicide or euthanasia.

"I don't know that any of us is in a position to make that choice for families or for individuals, but I don't want us also to condone government action that would legitimize or encourage end-of-life decisions," she said.

Clinton appeared to ask more questions than give answers to the bioethics concerns.

"Somehow there has to be a framework for us to determine how can people who are either able to make these decisions on their own do so? Or if they are not, how best do we create a decision process for their families to try to decide?" she added........

Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama Largely Avoid Assisted Suicide Question

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I don't watch this stuff, much less even know what it is, but an excerpt from a description jumped out...

Later, Eli gathers Taylor, Patti, and Dowd into his office and explains to Taylor and Patti that he needs them to witness the signing of his living will. He doesn't want to be Terri Schiavo'ed. "You want us to witness you signing your suicide note?" Taylor asks incredulously. It's "about how and under what circumstances I don't want to live," Eli tells her. It's another moment that really showcases one of the things I like so much about this show -- the strength of the relationships between the people. They're not always close, but the bonds are apparent, and it feels real....

It happened last night

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Dying with dignity, a classic oxymoronic way lefties see things. Thread by wagglebee.

Veteran MSP Margo MacDonald plans to research clinics abroad which allow those with terminal illnesses to end their own lives.

The 64-year-old, who suffers from Parkinson's disease, recently told fellow MSPs that she should be allowed to bring about her own death....

MSP to research assisted suicide (Scotland)

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