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 family’s 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 Terri’s 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-Pasco’s Sixth Judicial Court. Terri was 41.
"I think he was internally struggling with it," said O'Malley. "His dilemma was obvious. On one hand he holds himself out to be a constitutional scholar, and, of course, our Constitution makes clear that persons born are entitled to all the rights and privileges of full citizens. He consistently characterized the issue before us as being about abortion, but the legislation had nothing to do with Roe v. Wade. It focused on persons born alive. It was so easy to be on the right side of the angels here, but he wasn't."
Jill Stanek: When Obama chose his church over his state
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London, England (LifeNews.com) -- Unlike in the United States, abortions are on the rise in England, but apparently that's not good enough for the BBC. The prestigious British news service is actively looking for women who have had to wait to have an abortion because of the typical delays that accompany the nation's health service.
In a post on its web site, the BBC asks women, "Have you tried to get an appointment for a pregnancy termination and been told you will have to wait for weeks?"
BBC Looking for Women Who Waited for Abortions for Biased Story
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Many people, apparently upset that Saddam Hussein was mocked and ridiculed prior to being hung, did not dwell on the fact that thousands of innocent people were maimed, tortured and murdered without evidence of any crime, the benefit of a trial or any appeal to a higher authority of law. Opponents of the death penalty or capital punishment are not really distraught at how Saddam was executed; they don't think that his life should have been taken at all.
Judge Roy Moore: Death penalty opponents wrong again
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Darn, I'd like to go.
As a former intelligence specialist, I have nothing but contempt for Sandy Berger. As a human, though, I can appreciate his motives -- it was this or Ft. Marcy Park.
It's scary what the Clintonistas are willing to do just to keep in their good graces. That is why I believe that Dick Morris may still be doing their bidding, he is the ONLY senior person to ever walk away from them who hasn't been destroyed or worse.
Me, too. Wish I could pull it off, but circumstances are gumming us up.
That is an anomoly, isn't it. He hasn't suffered from Sudden Instant Death syndrome like the others who offended the king and queen. Makes me mutter hmmmmmm.
The park was on my commute route home for years and I would stop there a lot, long before its infamy. It was a, ummmm, good choice for such a task. Amazing how something so close to heavy traffic could be so private...
Yes, I've been there too, just to see for myself. Even brought home a souvenir pebble :-) How VF's suicide trainers found the place themselves is beyond me. How various committees reached the verdict of suicide is no mystery at all.
Maybe they found it because it was a handy rendezvous for lunch time lovers. I have noticed in the parking area some likely candidates such definition. I bet it was a busy place in the Clinton years.
"Yes mommy. Is Frontline here filming this private family matter for everyone to watch on TV next week?"
And maybe, "joe, you are never going to get better. I think it would be best if you committed a rational suicide".
Perplexing statements for sure.
I keep remembering this:
"[Nancy] turned and looked at me and stared at me with a panicky look, sweating profusely, and the thought I had was, she was thinking, ‘Oh, here’s a policeman, he’ll help me.’ But we weren’t allowed to do that,” said Seneker.
"Here's a prescription, Joe. Take the whole bottle."
IIRC, the first guy to find the body had stopped to use the outdoor men's room. Maybe he wandered back a ways because too many people were having fun in the parking lot. That was actually a huge flaw in the plan -- the body was discovered much too quickly. It would have been far harder to track the forensic details a few days later.
There was a road winding down to the river along the back boundary of the park. One could easily have hopped the fence there to enter the park.
>> I, Joseph Hughes, being of sound mind a body, do hereby ask you, my readers – the very select two or three of you whom this concerns directly – to not seek resuscitation should I enter a persistent vegetative state. I do not want to "exist" ad infinitum, my vital life functions performed by complex machinery.
Got news for you, Joe. Terri Schiavo was not attached to any complex machinery. Karen Ann Quinlan was not attached to any complex machinery for the last nine years of her life. Nancy Beth Cruzan was not attached to any complex machinery.
Got more news for you, Joe. You don't have to ask not to be resuscitated. Nobody cares.
So regular and predictable that Felos imported him all the way from Minnesota to vote to kill Terri. Cranford wasn't called as an expert, he was called as "Dr. Humane Death" -- a guaranteed vote for death. Such was "due process" by the Greer Court -- those who wanted to kill Terri got three votes, those who wanted to keep her alive got two. Voila! She dies! The media then duly reported that "the court determined that Terri Schiavo was in a persistent vegetative state."
The court rigged the vote, is all. It ignored some 33 other affidavits and petitions from neurologists and professionals who questioned the PVS diagnosis.
It also ignored the testimony of the doctors who advocated killing her. Even they testified to her condition being inconsistent with Florida's legal definition of PVS, as well as the medical community's definition. They all testified that she was responsive and aware.
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