Onaga found out she had leukemia when she became pregnant. She decided to have the child, and refused to undergo chemotherapy.
Woman Who Refused Chemo To Save Unborn Child Dies (Mother Of Three Dies Of Leukemia)
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Posted on 02/02/2007 3:49:53 AM PST by 8mmMauser
I don't know about anyone else, but I am still waiting for Michael Schiavo to make a correction on his blog about what "actually" took place in Colorado when he went there (to the debate) to supposedly ask Congresswoman Musgrave one question and she and her staff supposedly tried to have him removed. He called it, "My unreal night in Colorado - with radio link" (Thu Oct 26, 2006 at 08:05:14 PM PST). I'll say (from what I read) that it was his "unreal night".
As I said before in "Standing up and Admitting a Mistake: Not Schiavo's Style?", if four uniformed officers were around my seat, I would have some idea of what was going on. I certainly wouldn't be sitting in "duh mode" to only be told later of what took place right there around me, as Michael suggests he was. If Michael's account is realistic -- his response and reaction is not. Nor is his response appropriate now that he has "learned" what he was "allegedly told" is not what took place. One would think if he can't get the words out that he was mistaken, he could at least have removed the inaccurate entry from his blog.
He has done neither.
I'm also still waiting to read about, "Also, maybe tomorrow I'll post about my election-eve rally with Bill Clinton in Florida." (A real election impact by Michael Schiavo, Thu Nov 09, 2006 at 10:40:34 AM PST). Indeed, I would love to read that story by Michael, since I read it was not possible. Not if he was implying it was the Bill Clinton that is the former President of the United States. Will be interesting to see what he says about that if he ever does.
If Michael couldn't get it straight what happened at the Musgrave debate or even if he spent election-eve with former President Bill Clinton -- do you suppose he might have gotten Terri Schiavo's wishes mixed-up as well? (He does claim to have a bad memory from what I read.) Makes one wonder. At least makes me wonder. Whatever...
I'm still waiting for the corrections if not the explanations!
Carrie Hutchens is a former law enforcement officer and a freelance writer who is active in fighting against the death culture movement and the injustices within the judicial and law enforcement systems.
Rudolph W. Giuliani, whose 1989 campaign for mayor at times became bogged down in questions about his commitment to abortion rights, sought yesterday to remove the issue from his 1993 campaign by emphatically endorsing a woman's right to choose abortion without limitations.
Mr. Giuliani, the Republican-Liberal candidate, made his statement at a breakfast meeting organized by his wife, Donna Hanover Giuliani, who as a television news anchor was always Donna Hanover but like another political wife is now asking for an appellation evolution.
Giuliani Backs Rights On Abortion (Opposed the Hyde Amendment.)
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LITHIA - For 13 years, John Winter brought the morning sunshine into hundreds of thousands of homes no matter what the weather.
The 39-year-old News Channel 8 meteorologist's death on Thursday of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound shocked the region as investigators tried to piece together what happened.
Meteorologist Was A Ray Of Sunshine
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Can’t even read the day’s news, but I’ll try to steal a peek later on my daughter’s computer far away. Have a glorious Easter, all! Back Tuesday, Deo volente.
Where was he two years ago?
Rudy has realized that his star is fading and he is now pandering to conservatives. Some may believe him, but I never will.
Rudy has spent Holy Week reaffirming his belief that the 50 million infants who have been needlessly slaughtered in the wake of Roe v. Wade is acceptable and need not change.
To those who talk about his "promise" to appoint conservative justices, I still remember the results of believing, "Read my lips, no new taxes." (And I might add that I believed GHWB far more than I will ever believe Rudy.)
My keyboard types slower than I do. Yes, where was Rudy two years ago? Better late than never but that doesn’t help Terri now...
Weatherman chooses death. Maybe had his station taught their staff by example the value of Terri’s life, he would have valued his own. In the guest book, there is mention of being with “Davis” now. Maybe he lost a child? I do not know who Davis is.
It’s an empty promise, he is trying to appease conservatives by saying that while he won’t do anything to interfere with 1 million plus abortions a year, but he would have done something to help Terri. Any idiot can pander when he is talking about what he would have done two years ago.
Why hasn’t he found someone else that the culture of death is currently trying to murder and worked to save them?
So, Terri was trying to starve and dehydrate herself to death, but she had to wait for her estranged husband's permission?
Onaga found out she had leukemia when she became pregnant. She decided to have the child, and refused to undergo chemotherapy.
Woman Who Refused Chemo To Save Unborn Child Dies (Mother Of Three Dies Of Leukemia)
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St. Petersburg, FL (LifeNews.com) -- Terri Schiavo's family will never forget the next to last day of her life two years ago. It started with a Supreme Court ruling and a judgment by a federal appeals court, and ended with the knowledge that their daughter wanted to live.
Terri Schiavo's Next to Last Day: A Look Back, "I Want to Live"
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"How can you deny an abortion to a twelve-year-old girl who is the victim of incest?" complains an indignant supporter of abortion. "And how can you call yourself a loving Christian if you would force a victim of violent rape to give birth to a rapist's child?"
Every pro-lifer has heard these same challenges in one form or another. They are the emotionally charged questions designed to prove either 1) that pro-lifers are insensitive "fetus lovers," 2) or ethically inconsistent, allowing abortion for some circumstances but not others.
Rape, Incest and Abortion: Searching Beyond the Myths
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Have a Happy and Blessed Easter Everyone!
On this joyous day as it was two years ago, our joy is tempered by the grim wait as another executioner plies his craft.
In this case, Steven Ertelt of Life News tells the story. Little Emilio has two days before his scheduled execution under Texas Futile Care.
Thank you, LesforLife for bringing this to our attention before the clock runs out. Once more the Texas Futile Care law is cleverly misinterpreted to define "futile" as not the ineffective care given to a living soul, but the living soul itself.
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Austin, TX (LifeNews.com) -- A federal judge on Wednesday refused to grant a temporary restraining order to save the life of Emilio Gonzales, a baby plagued by Leigh's disease, an incurable disorder that causes the breakdown of the central nervous system.
Gonzales' family has been fighting with an Austin hospital over a Texas law that allows it to give them just 10 days to find another place that will provide medical care after doctors there gave up hope of treating him.
Doctors at the Brackenridge Children's Hospital decided to remove Emilio from life support and discontinue his medical treatments -- leaving his mother Catarina with little hope.
It agreed to care for the 16-month old boy until April 10, but his family must find a new facility by then. Without the treatments, Emilio will die in a matter of hours.
Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund, a pro-life law firm, are working with Jerri Ward, Catarina's lawyer, on the case..........................
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“The Children’s Hospital of Austin should do the right thing, and that is to make sure little Emilio gets the treatment he needs to live,” said Joshua Carden, and ADF-allied attorney working on the case, Gonzales v. Children’s Hospital of Austin, along with Ward.
“Instead, the hospital has betrayed this little boy by subjecting him to ‘death by vote.’ We are very disappointed that the court today refused to stop this insanity," he told LifeNews.com in a statement.
Pro-life advocates helping the Gonzales family are troubled that doctors are not certain in their diagnosis. They believe Emilio has Leigh’s Disease, a condition that is treated primarily through vitamin therapy. But on March 12, a hospital ethics committee voted behind closed doors to end Emilio’s treatment, deeming his life “futile.”
Federal Judge Refuses to Grant Restraining Order to Save Emilio Gonzales
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BOSTON - Of all the sad details about the case of 11-year-old Haleigh Poutre, of Westfield, one of the most heartrending was the Department of Social Services' decision to seek to remove the feeding tube from the brain-damaged girl when doctors said there was no hope of recovery.
After Haleigh defied the medical experts in 2005 by improving enough to survive without the tube, that DSS decision prompted an exhaustive examination of how the state handles end-of-life questions for children in its care.
But, despite the attention given to Haleigh's case, which included a bombardment of criticism aimed against the DSS for moving too quickly, the question of when to remove life-sustaining care from children in state custody is far from rare.
Since October 1993, a total of 54 recommendations have been made that the state forego or discontinue life-sustaining medical treatment for children in state care.
In the vast majority of cases - 81 percent - the underlying medical condition was due to birth defects or terminal illnesses.
But in at least 10 cases, including Haleigh's, the medical condition that led to the recommendation was the result of abuse or neglect.
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"We're hopeful that we will receive more time to find a transfer for Emilio, because we have not exhausted all possibilities and leads," said Jerri Ward of Austin, the lead lawyer. "We are still receiving information about hospitals, and we are still making calls."
Emilio has had help from people across the country, including the siblings of Terri Schiavo, who was diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state. She died after doctors removed her feeding tube after a highly publicized court fight in Florida in 2005.
Children's Hospital has contacted 30 hospitals on behalf of Emilio, including ones that specialize in treating patients like him, said Michael Regier, general counsel for the Seton Family of Hospitals, which operates Children's. None would take him, because "they have nothing further to offer this little boy" that Children's isn't already doing, Regier said.
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There was a time when I thought something like this could not happen in this country.
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I hope you all are enjoying a blessed Easter Sunday. The weather's a bit chilly, but the sun is peeking out -- how appropriate!
Thankfully, the Chron's ed board decided not to insult Christians today, for a change -- they're talking Houston's new trash tax instead. You may recall that in 2005 the editors decided Easter was a comfort to those who were upset about the forced starvation of Terri Schiavo. This year I half expected some "inspirational words" about Christ's Resurrection relating to the British hostages.
I do hold out hope that one day the media won't be so hostile to Christianity.
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Considering the alternative, he's grateful to be alive. His limbs were amputated to save him from a deadly circulatory infection.
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Lewis's body went into sepsis, or toxic shock. As the blood supply decreased to his extremities, the infection spread to his fingers and toes and eventually reached his forearms and shins.
As Lewis lay in a coma, medical professionals consulted with his girlfriend, Carol Pyatt, who had his power of attorney. They urged her to sign a "do not resuscitate" order and let him go into hospice care.
She refused.
Weeks before, she and Lewis had discussed the case of Terri Schiavo, the 41-year-old brain-damaged woman who at the time was the center of a national right-to-die battle. Lewis had declared that as long as his brain was working, he would want to live.
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Lewis survived the surgery, and initially he did experience some depression. Carol remembers telling him she was so sorry that he had to go through all this.
"His brow furrowed like he didn't understand what I said," Carol says. "Then he said to me, 'Worse things have happened to other people.' And that's when I knew he was going to be OK."
Amputee looks at his new life as 'another chance'
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Yes, saw the report on the evening news last night. Very sad. Doctors claiming the life support is hurting him. More likely the lack of insurance is hurting the hospital.
Jeremy Forrester was born with a twisted body and a chronic, terminal illness slowly killing him all his young life. Still, his parents had tried to give him as normal a life as possible and had sent him to St. Theresa's Elementary School. At the age of 12, Jeremy was only in second grade, seemingly unable to learn. His teacher, Doris Miller, often became exasperated with him. He would squirm in his seat, drool and make grunting noises. At other times, he spoke clearly and distinctly, as if a spot of light had penetrated the darkness of his brain. Most of the time, however, Jeremy irritated his teacher. One day, she called his parents and asked them to come to St. Theresa's for a consultation...................................
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