Posted on 02/19/2010 6:07:22 AM PST by Kfobbs
To say that the purposeful murder of an innocent human being is tragic would be truthful, right? To murder an innocent woman who was taken from the bosom of her family was wrong. To have it done with the self-serving suspect-expedient reasoning used by Michael Schiavo’s medical authorities in state of Florida and political anti-life activists in Washington and across the nation was shame before God.
In cities like Ann Arbor, Cleveland, Boston, St. Louis and many others, faith leaders as well as followers of the pro-life movement can be buoyed by the news of a recent published medical study supporting the rightful contention that Terri’s life was unjustly...
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The legalized murder of Terri broke my heart. It truly did. For a long, long time, I couldn’t think about her without tearing up, feeling a deep pain in my gut.
I was also almost as upset by the response of a few, very few, here on Free Republic. I just couldn’t understand it. If we stand for and celebrate and protect LIFE, doesn’t that include the lives of those at the end, as well as the lives of those at the beginning, of the unborn? I still don’t understand the attitudes of the ‘few’ here. It’s taken me a very long time to get over that. I couldn’t come to this site, even to read the news, for many months afterward. I felt betrayed. Silly, overly emotional response, I guess.
Still, that was a heart breaking time. Still is, when I look back.
pattyjo
Terri Schindler Schiavo simply became an anti-Bush tool for the left. All they knew was Bush was allegedly for saving her life — and either Bush COULD HAVE SAVED HER if he’d had the stones — so the left wanted her put her down. Never mind that her husband had contributed to the deciding judge’s campaign.....
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Terri was never on a machine. She simply had food and water administered through a tube. Her family was more than willing to take her home and give her food and water.
Her husband based his claim that she had said she would never want to be kept alive under certain circumstances. Her comment, as reported by a friend, had to do with a totally different case where a young woman was hooked up to a machine to make her breathe. It had nothing to do with Terri’s situation.
Inspired in part by the e-mails and letters from thousands of Floridians, Gov. Jeb Bush has entered the legal arena on behalf of Terri Schindler-Schiavo, the 39-year-old brain-disabled woman whose court-ordered death by starvation is scheduled to begin in eight days.
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=34974
All during that terrible time, I felt so connected to this woman I had never met. I wondered, I worried. I ranted and raved. I thought over and over again of the words of John Donne:
“No man is an island, entire of itself. Every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were. Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee.”
What was happening to that poor woman, as I said, broke my heart. I wondered, would that happen to me someday? Who would stand for me. Would others, totally unrelated to me by family ties, nonetheless feel a connection to me.... fight for me?
sigh
pattyjo
So? Jeb still let her be killed. He could have stopped it. Who would have stopped Jeb — his brother?
And I saw a lot of hate from leftists for anyone who dared suggest she be let live. Anti-Bush rants were the defense du jour for Terri’s “right to die.” Shameless leftist cows.
"Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members."
~ Pearl Buck
Well,as much as they hate to be labeled such, the left.... the democrat party..... are supporters and lovers of death. Something human has to die. Unless, of course, some monster, some violent murderer of their fellow man is set to be LAWFULLY executed for their crimes. Then they shed crocodile tears. Then they scream and yell. But NEVER for the innocent.... the unborn babe, the elderly... and poor souls like Terri. No... then their ranting and raving is all for the killing.... the extermination, of the innocent.
Truly sickening.
pattyjo
Who better than Bill Clinton showed us that by launching cruise missiles and bombs whenever he needed “news” above the fold and more prominently placed than his allegedly “private, personal affair”?
Amen, Joe, Amen.
I think of the words of the Apostle Paul, referring to those who are ‘without natural affection’, those who have their ‘consciences seared with a sharp iron’.... deadened.
If so many of them have no natural affection for the fruits of their own bodies, no desire to protect the aged and disabled among us...... well, then, we are beginning to reach the bottom of the fall.
They do evil, and are proud of it, refuse to recognize it as such.
pattyjo
It's to be expected from the leftists, what disgusted me the most were the self-proclaimed conservatives who wanted Terri dead.
It's quite likely that some will be along shortly to explain that Terri was "brain dead" and on "life support" and that she had definitely told her estranged, adulterous and possibly abusive "husband" that if she was ever incapacitated he should find the most evil way imaginable to kill her.
Where did you find that quote? It’s incredible and I don’t recall ever seeing it before.
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“It’s quite likely that some will be along shortly to explain that Terri was “brain dead” and on “life support” and that she had definitely told her estranged, adulterous and possibly abusive “husband” that if she was ever incapacitated he should find the most evil way imaginable to kill her.”
They sure had the buzzwords down pat, almost like they had internalized exactly what they had been reading from the Associated Press. And not all of them were trolls.
I have an aunt that's a retired USAF nurse. Since leaving the service she's dedicated herself to Birthright and any number of other pro-life causes. She's had it on a plaque for as long as I can remember. A few years ago I was trying to remember the exact wording, and I just googled "Pearl Buck Quotes", and there it was :-)
Thanks.
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