Terri's Day challenges the nation to unify

Renew America ^ | March 13, 2006 | Kevin Fobbs

[syriacus]

Thank you for providing the link to send a message to Andrea!

[Lesforlife]

From the mighty prayer warrior Pegita (on Freerepublic)

Heavenly Father, we return to thank You that there is none other than You who holds the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind. Job 12:10. How we praise You, Merciful Father, that Your mercy has overshadowed all attempts to end Andrea's life ... that You have sent others to minister to her ... that You have brought her back from the brink.

How we cry out to You, O God, that You will again intervene for Andrea and her family, not because of merit, but because of mercy. May Your healing manifest itself in blood pressure that can be sustained without medicines ... in the total disappearance of any manifestation of infection ... in a return to a measure of health that will astound, and convict, those who sought to remove her from our midst. Give ear to our plea for a miracle, O God, to the everlasting Glory and Honor of Your Name. Grace Andrea's medical team with wisdom and skill from on high, that they might be instruments of Your healing.

Take pity upon the heart of Andrea's beloved sister ... have mercy upon each one who has whispered Andrea's precious name before the Throne of Grace ... set before an unbelieving world that Creator God walks among His people ... draw near, Blessed Savior, that Andrea might touch the hem of Your garment and be healed.

Let our hearts not be broken again as they were for our beloved Terri, but strengthen and encourage Your children to continually defy the Merchants of Death, in the Power and Strength of God Almighty.

Hear our prayer, O Lord ...
Hear our prayer, O Lord ...
Incline thine ear to us
And grant us thy peace. Amen ...

[floriduh voter]

Martin was beaten and stomped but that didn't kill him. Sickle cell trait definitely did not kill him. Autopsy #2 in Hillsborough County is correct although Autopsy #1's Seibert stands by his report re: sickle cell being the cause.

Dueling autopsies is how the local news is spinning it.

[floriduh voter]

Fla AG Crist's office would not take any calls about Terri and her Civil Rights. A female there said they didn't have a civil rights dept.

Technically, she didn't lie because once a case goes to Crist's office, if it is Civil Rights, it is forwarded to Ft. Lauderdale for investigative and assignment purposes. Of course, that option was not afforded to Terri Schiavo.

I don't see how anyone can support Crist for governor. Whether a voter was for or against Terri, they should REALIZE that Charlie Crist is dishonest and he's being dishonest against regarding the death of Martin Anderson while MA was in state custody.

[floriduh voter]

FLA AG CRIST: I am dedicated to obtaining justice for Martin Lee Anderson, his parents and the people of Florida.

Charlie, why don't you tell the "people of Florida" that your friend Darryl Rousson is shadowing Martin's mom, GINA JONES? That is COLLUSION. Look it up, Charlie in your Law for Dummies book.

[Tax Government]

I trace Bush's big drop in the polls to his failure to protect Terri Schiavo

Very reasonable.

[supercat]

I trace Bush's big drop in the polls to his failure to protect Terri Schiavo

Very reasonable.

The issue isn't just that he failed to protect her, but rather he interfered with her situation by a logically-unjustifiable abount. To use a poker analogy, although "calling" may seem a compromise between raising and folding, there are situations where raising and folding may both be decent plays, but calling is a terrible. If Terri's dehydration was legally unjustifiable murder by the state, Jeb and GW Bush should have acted to prevent it, without backing down. If it was not, they should have done nothing. For them to act as they did generated the worst possible situation. Of course, Republicans seem to be good at that.

[Wampus SC]

Message from Andrea's sister:

ANDREA CLARK PASSED AWAY TODAY

"Andrea passed away peacefully a little before 3pm today, with her family and her friends at her bedside. We love her so very much and we are going to miss her terribly. We hope that the battle that we fought for our sister will bring to light and bear witness to the horrible acts committed in the name of ethics in hospitals across the state of Texas. "

(snip)

[T'wit]

Sad news.

There is good in this. Andrea died at peace because a great many people cared about her and fought for her. St. Lukes had threatened withdraw treatment. Had it done so, Andrea would have died unnaturally, not only in pain, but feeling helpless and betrayed by this world. Her family would have been embittered and left to wonder for the rest of their days whether she could have been saved. Thanks to those who cared, St. Lukes had to back off, and Andrea was given peace after all.

Thanks for passing this along, WampusSC.

[T'wit]

>> How, in the name of God, anyone can call putting someone to death when they are at their most helpless and begging for their lives "ethical," we cannot imagine. -- Melanie Childers [Andrea's sister]

One week ago, the "bioethics" department at the University of Pennsylvania held a symposium on how to put more people to death when they are helpless -- when they are sick or disabled or old.

The keynote speaker was Michael Schiavo -- invited solely because had had put his disabled wife to an agonizing death by dehydration. Other speakers included Judge George Greer and Dr. Ronald "Humane Death" Cranford, both likewise honored for their roles in putting a helpless Terri Schiavo to death. Greer should be remembered especially for his relentless bias and cruelty to Terri, such as denying her Holy Communion and refusing to let her have ice chips in her mouth to relieve the agony of dehydration.

Melanie Childers asks how in the name of God this can go on. So do we.

[8mmMauser]

Andrea...

Requiescant in Pace

[8mmMauser]

Saddened as we may be over this loss of Andrea, she denied the death ghouls their victory. Ping to #2,968 post from Wampus SC.

Terri's Legacy continues...

The Schindlers say since the death of Terri, hundreds of families across the country have reached out to them, wanting to know why doctor's aren't treating some patients equally.

"They're saying that that person's quality of life isn't worthy of that treatment, so they're literally allowing them to die," said Schindler.

Terri Schiavo's Parents Speak Out on the First Coast

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(this includes Ohioan from Florida's ping list, update to May 1.)



Terri on the road to recovery before the second stage began.

[CindyDawg]

Prayers for the families.

[8mmMauser]

Andrea's Fight...

From North Country Gazette:

She passed away peacefully a little before 3 p.m. Sunday in St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, with her family and friends at her beside.

Her death came a week to the day that the hospital had said it was going to remove all life support from the 54-year-old heart patient because the hospital's ethics committee had decided April 19 that it was medically futile to keep her alive.

Andrea Clark Loses Fight For Life

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[8mmMauser]

Some unlikely political bedfellows want to change the state's "medical futility" law, saying it gives doctors too much power to make life-and-death decisions and families who disagree too little time to fight back.

The law has received renewed attention in recent days after doctors in Austin and Houston sought to withdraw treatment from patients whose families wanted to keep them on life support.

A collection of conservatives and liberals, Republicans and Democrats, Texas Right to Life members and disability rights advocates — all members of the Texas Advance Directives Act Coalition, which helped craft end-of-life legislation in Texas a decade ago and is considering changes to the medical futility provision — are largely in agreement that the deadlines imposed on families are too burdensome. But so far they haven't been able to persuade many of the doctor and hospital representatives in the coalition of the need to extend the deadlines.

'Futility' law gives doctors too much power, groups charge

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[8mmMauser]

Martin Anderson update...

They called it a change to the game plan.

TALLAHASSEE - It happens nearly every year: An unforeseen issue that changes the game plan in the Florida Legislature.

A year ago it was the kidnapping and slaying of 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford two weeks before the session began and the end-of-life battle between Terri Schiavo's husband and parents that consumed lawmakers' activities. In 2004, lawmakers reacted similarly to the kidnapping and murder of 11-year-old Carlie Brucia.

Boot camp death changed legislative game plan

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[8mmMauser]

Catholic Online...

Too many people in this neo-pagan age have, knowingly or unknowingly, been lured into a new form of idolatry. “Choice” is the new golden calf around which many now worship. As a culture, we have stripped the word of its moral content and try to hide evil under its verbal guise. We have the arrogance to call some choices “rights”, when they are always wrong. “Freedom” can be exercised wrongly. This is obvious in the horror of legalized abortion on demand. We all know that procured abortion is the taking of innocent human life. Even its most vicious advocates rarely debate that issue any longer. They follow instead the way of the modern sophists, seeking to hide the horror of the act under the shadow of the new golden calf - the idol of unencumbered “choice”.

The truth is that some choices are always and everywhere wrong, such as the taking of innocent human life. It should never be chosen, even if there are no apparent legal impediment to killing certain subsets of persons, such as is currently the case with children in the womb. This “culture of death” has expanded the so called “right to choose” to the killing of “unwanted” disabled people like Terri Schiavo and, if left unopposed, will soon set include “unwanted” elderly and infirmed. Authentic human freedom must always be exercised with reference to the truth concerning the inviolable dignity of every human life, at every age and every stage. Otherwise, it becomes a counterfeit.

The Choices We Make Determine the People We Become

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[8mmMauser]

Another ping to the thread on Martin Anderson...

Autopsy: Boot camp guards killed teen

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[Pegita]

Heavenly Father, we return to thank You that You have this day again declared the truth of Your Word ... that in Your hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind. Job 12:10. How we praise You, Merciful Father, that You allowed not any man to usurp Your authority ... that in the fullness of Andrea's time, You called her unto Yourself.

Comfort Andrea's beloved family and friends, and all those who have stood between her and the Merchants of Death ... may they know the assurance that their every effort will be recorded throughout eternity, even as every effort to end her life will be an eternal testimony against the Authority of Sovereign God. Strengthen us, even in the midst of tears and grief, with the resolve to continue to uphold the preciousness of life wherever it is threatened, unto the time when an unbelieving world truly knows that God, not man, is the Creator and Sustainer of Life ... that You, Most Gracious Father, hold the life and breath of all mankind.

Unto You be all Glory, Power, Honor, and Praise ... now and forevermore, Amen ...

[wagglebee]

Prayers for Andrea, her family and friends.

And thanks to our Lord for allowing her return to Him to be at a time of His choosing rather than the culture of death.