TERRI SCHINDLER SCHIAVO FEBRUARY DAILY THREAD 2005: TERRI IS OUR VALENTINE!

*Michael, HAVE A HEART !!!!!For Valentines Day give Terri back to her MOM & DAD, The Schindlers!!!!!!!!*

The Terri Schindler Schiavo Daily Threads are created month to month as we watch local and national news regarding Terri and her family.

Since Terri's supporters are in every time zone, you may see something FIRST. Please share news with us that you don't see here already. Now, why would you want to do that? Terri's Daily Thread for September/October of 2004 was viewed over 15,000 times. Terri's November Daily Thread was viewed over 6,000 times. December's thread is over 3,000 views. January 2005 Daily Thread was a RECORD HIGH!!!!!!! 15, 103 VIEWS!!!!!!

More and more good folks are finding out about Terri and that judicial tyranny would take her life, but for lots and lots of prayer and non-stop lobbying of relatives, friends, clergy, our leaders, the media, a passerby, a cashier - ANYONE who you feel comfortable chatting with.

Folks always want to know how can this be in America or on earth for that matter? Unfortunately, this is really happening to an innocent woman who just celebrated her 41st birthday. She's not the only one but she's the one with devoted parents and siblings who knows what's in Terri's heart. Terri has a strong will to live. That's apparent. It's been 14 years.

Besides, feeding tubes have been around practically since the Civil War. They are not high tech devices. Terri is "not hooked up to machines". Her feeding tube is the diameter of a piece of spaghetti.

Talkin' about Terri is the best way to lobby for her. It is a salespitch to save her life and subsequently, many lives. If you've never sold anything in your life, START NOW. START WITH TERRI.

See Terri's flash movies if you need more information. You can see for yourself that's she's interactive and follows the doctor's instructions.

NOTE: Terri's December Dailies are noted as a source above. There are lots of important links at the very top of that thread. If you missed Terri's Celebration of Life, you can click on it from there.

AGAIN WE HAVE A NEW RECORD: 15,103 views on the tote board for the Terri Schindler Schiavo January Daily Thread!

The most significant event in Terri's case in January, was the Supreme's Courts refusal to hear Governor Jeb Bush's appeal, after the Florida State Legislature struck down Terri's Law. This once again places Terri's life in extreme jeopardy, though there are other issues regarding her case before the court.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com

BREAKING NEWS.

LIFE AND DEATH TUG OF WAR Activists: Stop pulling feeding tubes

Group says patients like Terri Schiavo should be given chance

Posted: February 18, 2005

1:00 a.m. Eastern By Sarah Foster

Prompted by reports of new findings that certain brain-injured people may be more aware of their surroundings than heretofore thought, a national disability rights group is calling for a moratorium on the practice of withdrawing feeding tubes from patients like Terri Schindler-Schiavo, who are alleged to be in either a persistent vegetative or minimally conscious state.

Not Dead Yet, an Illinois-based organization, says no one should be starved or dehydrated to death unless tested under a protocol described in a study published in the February issue of the journal Neurology. Using special brain-imaging technology – magnetic resonance imaging – neuroscientists discovered high levels of brain activity in two men thought to be minimally conscious and essentially brain-dead. The MRI scans of the patients revealed that under certain stimuli their patterns of brain-activity were comparable to those of healthy people.

The group wants similar MRI tests performed on all cognitively disabled people whose lives are threatened by the removal of their feeding tubes.

"State-of-the-art testing for cognitive activity should be a minimum standard to be applied when someone's death is proposed," said Stephen Drake, research analyst for Not Dead Yet, in a statement.

"Just as the availability of DNA testing and competent counsel are accepted as essential to people being tried in capital cases, the new technical tools to evaluate cognitive activity and potential should be applied to individuals before feeding tubes are withdrawn," he declared.

Drake said the authors of the study drew a distinction between "minimally conscious" and "persistent vegetative" states, but the distinction is not a reliable one, according to Dr. Joseph Fins, chief of the medical ethics division of New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center.

In a New York Times article, Fins referred to an earlier report from the United Kingdom that showed as many as 30 percent of patients identified as being unaware and in a persistent vegetative state were not PVS but minimally conscious.

Fins told the paper the recent study "gave [him] goose bumps, because it shows the possibility of this profound isolation, that these people are there, that they've been there all along, even though we've been treating them as if they're not." Fins was not involved in the research, but has collaborated with its authors on other projects.

The implications of the study to the plight of brain-disabled Terri Schindler-Schiavo, are obvious, though it may come too late to save the disabled Florida woman from a court-ordered starvation death.

Terri's right to live is at the heart of an ongoing euthanasia battle being waged in the courts between her parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, and her estranged husband, Michael Schiavo.

The Schindlers have long maintained that Terri is not brain-dead, and are reportedly eager for their daughter to undergo MRI testing. Her responses to family members and the few outsiders who have been allowed to meet her strongly suggest she is one of the many brain-injured patients misdiagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state.

But Schiavo has not permitted his wife to have even a "swallowing test," to determine if she really needs a feeding tube. Such testing, he says, would violate her "privacy" and "right to die with dignity."

Drake said that Terri is not the only one trapped by laws and courts that allow the starvation of people diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state – hence the urgent need for a moratorium on feeding tube removals.

"Thousands of people around this country with labels of both MCS and PVS are being starved and dehydrated, often without an advance directive indicating their wishes or a durable power of attorney appointing a substitute decision-maker they chose for themselves," he said.

"Given the current research regarding brain activity and misdiagnosis, it's a virtual certainty that countless people have been helpless to prevent their own deaths through starvation and dehydration.

"Even with this technology, there will probably still be mistakes," Drake added. "But at least it will be the first step in reducing the number of conscious people dying from hunger and thirst in hospitals and nursing homes, aware of every minute and unable to cry out that they are awake."

Drake told WorldNetDaily a resolution calling for the moratorium is in the works, and within the next few weeks Not Dead Yet will approach other disability-rights groups for endorsement.

He hopes congressional hearings will be held on the starvation of patients that in turn will lead to legislation.

"It's a national problem, and Congress is going to have to step in," he said.

FV SAYS: I don't think this has its own thread yet. If anyone has time, please check that and post this as a separate thread. Thanks, FV

(1) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to condone, authorize, or approve mercy killing or euthanasia, or to permit any affirmative or deliberate act or omission to end life other than to permit the natural process of dying.

I think I like this part the best. She has the right to eat and don't care what Judge Greer says because they don't do animals like that.

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"A year later, in April 2001, her death by dehydration was
ordered to begin, and the day her feeding was stopped her
brother and sister came by with a spoon and a cup of pudding,
asking a nurse to try to feed her by mouth.

The nurse refused and reported the request to others. When Schiavo
found out he demanded that Bobby and Suzanne be removed from the
list of approved visitors, and Greer rubberstamped his request"

Source

Judge Greer's response when he learned of the feeding attempt:

“I don’t want anyone trying to feed that girl”, Greer thundered from the bench in 2001. Greer’s statement, “the law of the case is that she is going to die”, is part of the court record.

Source

Over 100 now.. trying for 500 but we need others to get the information and urge that others do the same thing ad infinitum.

http://hyscience.typepad.com has organized a blogburst for Terri Schiavo. You can join up if you have a blog or you can start a blog and join up. You simply agree to have at least one post a day about Terri in regards to taking action, or whatever information you may have to share, etc.
To join this blogburst which seeks to help Terri get protection (by getting her out of the hands of those trying to kill her) and getting her rehabilitation and therapy so she can have her own voice, etc. please e-mail Hyscience (http://hyscience.typepad.com) or ProLifeBlogs (http://www.prolifeblogs.com/articles/contact.php). You can also visit http://tekgnosis.typepad.com. There is a script that you need to add in the links section or sidebars of your blog and you can get it from these sites. After adding the script a list of all the sites in the Terri Schiavo Blogburst will then be listed on your blog. You then e-mail hyscienceblog@3oaks.com to let them know to add you. Please put in the subject line ADD ME TO THE TERRI SCHIAVO BLOGBURST. The recommendation is that you contact at least 5-10 others to try to get them involved and ask them to do the same, ad infinitum.

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