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CNN just did a piece on Terri's plight, AND are asking what WE think!

Judy&Thomas@CNN.COM is the address they want emails sent to.

Here's the media asking us for what we have to say! LET'S LET EM HEAR US.

My gosh CNN is really covering this nnow! I've heard five short blurbs just in the last half hour. And one decently long piece.

CNN reading emails now. Two against Terri's life two in favor! They want more.

Just sent this email to CNN.....urge all to write:

Judy&Thomas@CNN.COM

CNN:

After getting the malpractice money, Terri Schiavo's husband, Michael stopped all attempts to rehabilitate her.

He's been committing adultery & had had two children with another woman. After many years he suddenly remembers that Terri 'would not have wanted tubes'.

Since he has been living with another woman for some time; should not have been appointed guardian of his disabled wife.
He should have given her guardianship to her loving parents who want to take care of their disabled daughter.

Anyone who has seen the videos of Terri knows that she responds to her parents. She is not comatose nor on life support.

To starve & dehydrate a disabled woman is the cruelest of death sentences. I am glad that the FL House passed a bill against such cruelty.

I pray the FL Senate acts in time to save Terri's life.

(name & town)

Dear CNN,

I have followed with great interest the legal battle to save the life of Terri Schiavo. It is of enormous importance that this country turn back the tide of the culture of death.

Currently we are following in the steps of those patriotic countrymen in Germany, pre-Hitler, who deemed it compassionate and kind to kill the useless eaters in a state with "scarce resources". Just prior to the mass killings of the disabled, the mentally ill, and war veterans who were injured or amputees, there was a large and very successful right-to-die movement in action.
In this country currently we are seeing a startling similarity.

More worrisome, the most recent medical literature is asking that the concept of death be re-defined to include those who are less responsive or diagnosed as in a "vegetative state". A very recent journal proposal suggests that we not wait until death to harvest useable organs from the critically ill and brain-damaged. It was written by two *pediatric* specialists in the Boston area. It is becoming a given that the weakest and most vulnerable citizens are seen as either discardable or potential organ donors.

I posted a message on an online forum several weeks ago stating that my husband and I were considering moving to a kinder country to live. I was astonished to receive not only several requests posted asking me for more information, but also a flurry of private replies from other families asking for help in doing the same. People wanted to know where we were hoping to go and how they could join us.

As Terri slowly dies an agonizing and painful death, as her husband - who denied her painkilling medicine in an act of absolute sadism and barbarism - tries to convince us that this was a loving act, as the disabled are increasingly frightened to live in America, this country is slowly being perceived by many as no longer great or even safe. We are all simply one auto accident away from being the next involuntary organ donor or victim of the cruelty of terminal dehydration.

Thank you for your assistance in bringing these issues to the public.