Posted on 12/03/2006 3:03:26 AM PST by 8mmMauser
Theresa Marie Schindler was born to Robert and Mary Schindler on December 3, 1963. She was the first of three children the Schindlers would have.
Terri was a shy, but comical, child who had an affinity for music, animals and the arts. She kept a small circle of friends and was dear to schoolmates, neighboring families and her own extended family.
Following high school, Terri came into her own. She developed a knack for sketching and doodling. She enjoyed outings with her friends. She was an adoptive mother to the familys dog, Bucky.
Terri attended Catholic School while growing up and remained close to her faith throughout her life.
In 1983, Terri met Michael Schiavo at Bucks County Community College and the two began dating. He was the first romantic interest Terri had.
The couple was engaged within a few months and married a year later at Terris church in Southampton, Pa. She was 21.
In 1986, Terri and Michael relocated to Pinellas County, Florida and her parents followed three months later.
In 1990, at the age of 26, Terri suffered a mysterious cardio-respiratory arrest for which no cause has ever been determined. She was diagnosed with hypoxic encephalopathy neurological injury caused by lack of oxygen to the brain. Terri was placed on a ventilator, but was soon able to breathe on her own and maintain vital function. She remained in a severely compromised neurological state and was provided a PEG tube to ensure the safe delivery of nourishment and hydration.
On March 31, 2005, Terri Schindler Schiavo died of marked dehydration following more than 13 days without nutrition or hydration under the order of Circuit Court Judge, George W. Greer of the Pinellas-Pascos Sixth Judicial Court. Terri was 41.
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Ted Bundy allowed over one hundred young women to die. Why isn't he honored at guardian-of-the-year banquets and bioethics conferences?
Look how well the disinformation has stuck. How can you be "allowed to die" if you're not dying? Terri was not dying -- confirmed by the autopsy report, as if we needed any scientific proof of the obvious. The word "allowed" also implies that she had previously lacked permission to die. Iow, the writer bought into the nonsense that she wanted to die but somehow had been prevented. Ridiculous! The undisputed truth is that she left no advanced directive. Her family, friends and priest were unanimous that as a devout Catholic, she had not asked to die and never would have.
She was murdered.
Henry Adams would be stricken to know that his beloved Mont Saint Michel and Chartres have been removed from Europe.
Morning bump
Over the years we have been to both and were disturbed mostly at how Mont St. Michel has changed. It has become more of a tourist trap than anything else and the chapel is hard to find for the public unless one is determined.
Chartres OTOH is still a center for pilgrimages and is fairly intact.
Sadly, the beautiful cathedrals, basilica throughout France at least remain so only in outward appearance, inside being more similar to older train stations. The beauty and majesty inside are usurped by more modern trappings, sometimes modernistic banners and feel-good stuff tacked around, the tabernacles gone, and even the big crucifixes in the back rooms.
Shells, for the most part. IOW.
Worst of all, we watched the gradual deterioration of Lourdes from a spectacle of solid faith decades ago to a kumbaya center for ALL New Age faiths. Haven't been back now for nearly ten years.
Encouraging, though, the core of solid faithful is there and defiant. Despite the best efforts of the anti-church elements, it prevails.
Sigh........ :-(
Europe seems on its way to worse. Here is the Hagia Sophia, Church of the Holy Wisdom and crown jewel of the Byzantine Empire in the City of Constantine. Older than Mohammed, it survived as a Christian edifice until A.D. 1453, a reign of a thousand years. Conquering Turks were at last able to take it, and they destroyed its ikons and converted it into a mosque. This despoliation is still obvious because of the four minarets. Today it is a museum, in a country (Turkey) something like 99% muslim, but secular.
The way things are going, Europe's many great cathedrals may well share this fate.
A dance call the Thousand-Hand Guanyin
Give it time -- slow to load.
No problem. It was none of any of our business. That's why it was removed.
Watch this guy squirm, cough, stutter and lie.
They would be good source of information for a SciFi thriller, but if you're looking for someone to help with your health care decisions, avoid them like the plague.
They prey on the elderly, especially what they call "lonely nursing home residents." Their version of "humane and ethical medical care" is exterminating those unworthy of life. They spend big bucks on a pogrom [sic] to encourage these "lonely nursing home residents" to sign an advance directive, forfeiting their right to humane and ethical medical care, and even life itself.
Yes Virginia, there is a Satan clause.
That's a pretty low percentage of people choosing death for themselves. I'd be curious to know what percentage choose death for their "loved ones." I would estimate that about 95% of the articles I read about incidents of brain injury, include family members choosing death for the patient. And they're usually quoted as claiming it's what the patient would have wanted. Hmm..
Can't quite place it, but sounds familiar.......
I have been doing a bit of reading into the interesting field of criminal profiling. You never can tell what you'll learn about criminals who have not yet been discovered and brought to justice -- but who will be, just wait! My favorite sodomist / serial killer so far in this exercise is Carl Panzram, a man mean enough to be a star role model for Michael Schiavo. Also found a European Ted Bundy-type sociopath named Jack Unterweger. Between the two of them we're getting more insights into Terri's killer and his friends.
Sounds as if he's almost ready to complete his bioethics training and start killing patients.
Judge declines to dismiss suit against doctorA judge in federal court denied a motion to dismiss a lawsuit against a doctor at the Medical University of South Carolina, who is accused of removing life support from an injured child.
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The advocates of forced euthanasia are right about one thing. It does happen every day. But they're wrong about the frequency magically making it right. Murder is wrong, no matter how often it's committed.
Over the last twelve months two of the most articulate defenders of life, and most ardent opponents of Planned Parenthood, covered the nation talking and teaching average Americans about the threat that Planned Parenthood poses to their children and grandchildren. In the process, David Bereit, American Life League's executive director, and Jim Sedlak, ALL's vice president, motivated thousands of Americans. During this time, Planned Parenthood closed 13 clinics and currently operates its lowest number of facilities since 1987. That is very good news for expectant mothers, preborn children and youngsters.
Though this does mean that there are 817 of these operations still in place, there is every reason to believe that Planned Parenthood is shrinking and will continue to do so. It is also clear that Planned Parenthood's multi-million dollar taxpayer subsidized package, arriving in its bank accounts annually, is at risk. Thousands of Americans signed on to our Stop Planned Parenthood Tax Funding petitions in 2006. The reality that we Americans are supporting Planned Parenthood with our tax dollars attained a level of discussion that nobody could have expected when 2006 began.
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Thanks, cyn.
Their lives ended almost as soon as they began. And every time their tiny bodies were found, in Dumpsters, garbage cans or, in the case of a newborn girl in Queens last fall, on the conveyor belt of a recycling plant, dismay and bewilderment followed.
Six dead newborns were found abandoned in the New York City area in 2006, twice as many as in the preceding year, according to Timothy Jaccard, president of the A.M.T. Children of Hope Foundation on Long Island, which offers outreach to expectant mothers and buries discarded babies.
Safe-Haven Laws Fail to End Discarding of Babies
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Daniel Kerner is a 6 year old boy who, last month, was the recipient of stem cells from aborted, donated fetuses in hopes of combating this rare genetic disease which usually ends the life of those afflicted before they reach their teens.
This is from their link:
Press Release: Donated Aborted Children Provide Stem Cells for Treatment of 6 Year-Old Boy
And here is the link to ProLifeBlogs which has more topics of interest today.
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Iow, medical caregivers who wrongly or prematurely "pull the plug" are getting a free pass. Somebody else is made to be legally responsible for the death. But killing patients for their organs is so lucrative, it offers a huge financial incentive for wrongful death. The "plug pullers" may be the actual murderers, or at least full accomplices to the murder.
Moral: "In Adam's fall / We sinnéd all." If you leave even the tiniest loophole for evil in the law, you will soon have a flood of evil consequences.
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