Posted on 02/02/2007 3:49:53 AM PST by 8mmMauser
Makes sense to me. We could have a "Dr. Mengele Experiments on Children" museum. We could have a "Chemistry for the Final Solution" museum dedicated to Zyklon-B and the gas chambers. We could turn Auschwitz-Birkenau into condos. Very chic!
Who was murdered two years ago.
Yes, of course, liberals always hunt in packs. They also prefer sneak attacks, from behind, and go running to daddy if anyone hits back. These are among the qualities that make me pronounce them bratty, devious, evil-minded little girls regardless of their age or sex.
From the press, I unconsciously expected Heidi Law to be a girlish nurse-trainee. One of our visitors called her a "candy-striper." She is nothing of the sort! She's a grown woman, competent, experienced in nursing and very persuasive in her recollections (like Carla Sauer Iyers). Heidi Law is a CNA, which was the level of duty nurse at that facility. What she said was backed up by another duty nurse, "Olga."
Politicians still wrong on Terri's case [her brother addresses Romney's recent comments]
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So, I post my warning sign.
Mitt Romney's Comments on Terri Schiavo Could Sink His Candidacy
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Two additional nurses have filed affidavits in the Terri Schiavo case that corroborate bombshell allegations by nurse Carla Sauer Iyer, who went public on Tuesday with claims that Michael Schiavo had deliberately withheld treatment from his disabled wife.
Heidi Law was a certified nursing assistant at the Palm Garden Convalescent Center in Largo, Fla., where she treated Mrs. Schiavo in 1997.
In an affidavit filed with the court in August 2003, Ms. Law maintained:
"I know that Terri did not receive routine physical therapy or any other kind of therapy. I was personally aware of orders for rehabilitation that were not being carried out. Even though they were ordered, Michael would stop them."
Law continued:
"Michael ordered that Terri receive no rehabilitation or range of motion therapy. I and [another CNA] would give Terri range of motion anyway, but we knew we were endangering our jobs by doing so.
"We usually did this behind closed doors," Law said, because "we were so fearful of being caught ... we were always looking out for Michael, because we knew that, not only would Michael take his anger out on us, but he would take it out more on Terri. We spoke of this many times."
"At least three times during any shift where I took care of Terri, I made sure to give Terri a wet washcloth filled with ice chips, to keep her mouth moistened.
"On three or four occasions I personally fed Terri small mouthfuls of Jello, which she was able to swallow and enjoyed immensely. I did not do it more often only because I was so afraid of being caught by Michael."
Like nurse Iyer, Law suspected that Michael was mistreating Terri, noting in her sworn statement:
"Several times when Michael visited Terri during my shift, he went into her room alone and closed the door. This worried me because I didn’t trust Michael.
"When he left, Terri was very agitated, was extremely tense with tightened fists and sometimes had a cold sweat. She was much less responsive than usual and would just stare out the window, her eyes kind of glassy. ...
"We were convinced that he was abusing her, and probably saying cruel, terrible things to her because she would be so upset when he left."
"The Palm Gardens staff, myself included, were just amazed that a 'Do Not Resuscitate' order had been put on Terri’s chart, considering her age and her obvious cognitive awareness of her surroundings."
Carolyn Johnson, a certified nursing assistant who worked at the Sabal Palms nursing home in Largo, said Terri's mistreatment went back to at least 1993.
"During this assignment I took care of Terri Schiavo several times," Johnson said in her own August 2003 affidavit.
"I learned, as part of my training, that there was a family dispute and that the husband, as guardian, wanted no rehabilitation for Terri. This surprised me, as I did not think a guardian could go against a doctor's orders like that, but I was assured that a guardian could and that this guardian had gone against Terri's doctor's orders."
Johnson recalled: "No one was allowed to just go in and see Terri. Michael had a visitors list. We all knew that we would lose our jobs if we did not do exactly what Michael said to do."
Johnson continued:
"I remember seeing Michael Schiavo only once the entire time I worked at Sabal Palms, but we were all aware that Terri was not to be given any kind of rehabilitative help, per his instructions.
"Once, I wanted to put a cloth in Terri's hand to keep her hand from closing in on itself, but I was not permitted to do this," Johnson said, "as Michael Schiavo considered that to be a form of rehabilitation."
Second, Third Nurse Accuse Michael Schiavo
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Well, now he is doing a film on Terri. Since he was so weepy over the pain suffered by miserable cold blooded killers, one can imagine how much more huge compassion he must have felt when Mikey and the State dispatched Terri.
Maybe I will offer a prize to the first one who guesses correctly whether he sided with compassion towards Terri or towards some other victim.
Rather than keep all in suspense, I will just leak it all out and surprise all.
Farrell cites his struggle making the 'Patch' movie intelligent and meaningful. More recently, he has been trying to produce the Terry Schiavo story.
"We have the rights to the story as told from the point of view of her husband, Mike,' he says. 'It is a story of real love and the tragedy of an individual who was caught in the crosshairs of the American political and religious right. This is a story that just has to be told, but every place we went they were scared to death. 'No, not for us,' they said. We have been literally out there for a year trying to peddle the story."
Conscience Drives Actor/Activist Mike Farrell
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Two years ago in the United States, Terri Schiavo—a brain-damaged woman in a persistent vegetative state—made headlines with her famous euthanasia case. Her husband and her parents were battling over whether she should be unhooked from her machines so she could die peacefully.
Now the debate over euthanasia is raging on the opposite side of the planet, in China.
Typing with a chopstick held in her mouth, 28-year-old Li Yan has been writing a blog called "Nowhere to go" that calls for China to enact legislation on euthanasia, or "peaceful death." Li Yan has suffered from terminal cancer since she was a baby. She can only move her head slightly, along with several fingers. Her mother must feed her, take her to the toilet, and turn her a dozen times during the night.
"I treasure life, but I don't want to live," she writes.
Schiavo and Li are unusual cases, but controversy over when to pull the plug is bound to grow more common as the world population ages. My hunch? Euthanasia will become more accepted as terminal illness hits closer to home for more people.
And although it's repugnant to make human life a matter of money, crippling financial costs will be an unspoken factor that makes euthanasia more accepted. When U.S. President George W. Bush was governor of Texas, he signed the Texas Futile Care Law. It allows hospitals to discontinue life-sustaining treatment if the patient is so sick that all care is, well, futile. Families get a 10-day notice before the plug is pulled. While the Schiavo debate raged, a Texas baby was unplugged against his mother's wishes.
As the world grays and financial resources remain finite, some tough decisions will have to be made. So let the worldwide debates continue.
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AUSTIN, TX, March 21, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A hospital ethics committee at Brackenridge Children’s Hospital of Austin, TX, a Catholic run hospital in the Seton Healthcare System, yesterday notified Catarina Gonzales, a young mother of a very sick child that, unless she can arrange to have her child transferred to another medical facility within 10 days, they will remove the respirator that the child relies on to breath.
Mother Given 10 Days to Find New Hospital For Sick Child or Hospital Will Remove Respirator
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Maybe death occurs when the pained screaming stops.
WASHINGTON, D.C., March 21, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Organ harvesting from patients before brain-death has been declared is a rapidly increasing trend in U. S. hospitals, the Washington Post reported March 18, alarming doctors and ethicists about the dubious ethics behind the practice.
Instead of waiting until brain function ceases and the patient is declared "brain-dead" by medical officials (itself a questionable practice since there is no universally-accepted definition of brain-death) surgeons have begun following an approach known as "donation after cardiac death." Organs are harvested once the heart has stopped beating and several minutes have passed without the heart spontaneously re-starting.
"The person is not dead yet," said Jerry A. Menikoff, an associate professor of law, ethics and medicine at the University of Kansas. "They are going to be dead, but we should be honest and say that we're starting to remove the organs a few minutes before they meet the legal definition of death."
Organ Harvesting Before "Brain-Death" Increasingly Common, Concerned Doctors Warn
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This is but an extract from that remarkable story:
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• Rejecting the Schindlers’ Case: Three-fifths (60%) of soundbites (including reporter comments) presented Michael Schiavo’s case that Terry Schiavo should die, compared with just two-fifths offering the counter-arguments of her parents. Not a single story was devoted to a skeptical look at Schiavo and whether he was acting in his wife’s best interests, but all three networks ran stories rejecting Mr. and Mrs. Schindler’s view that their daughter could possibly be helped.
On Friday, a few hours after Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube was removed, ABC’s Peter Jennings dismissed one of the Schindlers’ worries: “They also say that she will die a painful death, though there does not seem to be any support for that argument in the medical community.” On Monday’s World News Tonight, reporter Jake Tapper rejected the value of videotapes showing Terri Schiavo apparently responding: “In some ways, these tapes are like psychological inkblot tests. You see in them what you want.” Then ABC’s Dr. Tim Johnson summarized that “the conventional wisdom, by experts in this field, is that after five years in a persistent vegetative state, there is virtually no chance for recovery.” NBC showed Dr. Robert Cranford, who has examined Mrs. Schiavo. He said that in spite of how she appears on videotape, “she’s as unconscious as someone who is dead.”
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They should have listened to Free Republic. We poked it full of holes years ago. However, Dr. Thogmartin made it official. His findings showed that the malpractice lawsuits were a criminal fraud all along. The trial lawyer who invented the theory (Gary Fox) may not have known this, but Michael most certainly did. He also had, and withheld from the court, written and scientific evidence that prima facie exonerated the doctors -- the bone scan. Then after the judgment in his favor, Michael again acted as a "fraud on the court" by denying Terri the therapy that the jury award was for. (If she died, he stood to inherit it, so he soon set out to arrange her death, too.)
The score at this point is that Michael and Terri had a big fight. Terri was scared but went to sleep, Michael came home late from his evening restaurant job, and Terri ended up face down on the hall floor, permanently brain damaged, in cardiac arrest, and dying. Michael has no explanation for this. Now he has no alibi.
Freepers can think of an explanation.
Now there is the no-brainer of the young century.
This news item about Mike Farrell suggests something even grander. I think we should go beyond the alibi, and volunteer an imaginative cover story PLUS a plot line to save poor Mr. Farrell's doomed drama. Surely, somehow, somewhere out there in space, there is a fake explanation of Terri's injuries that could exonerate her cheating husband.
Mike Farrell desperately needs one.
Darned if I can think of one, though. I keep asking our Visitors for one and they run for the door.
That is even hard to imagine. Some visitors have come up with fantastic fiction, but yes, they don't stick around long enough to make the stories sound reasonable enough for a ficticious story.
Dying only hastens judgment.
Romney is a current example of someone who doesn't recognize the implications of a judiciary gone wild. I also seriously wonder about Giuliani, and McCain. Giuliani's record on judicial appointments is liberal, liberal, liberal. McCain's liberal wife is reason enough to suspect his viewpoints.
And no, I will not compromise on a presidential candidate who goes only part way on the life issue. The stakes are too high to vote for "a lesser of two evils" so as to get what? A half life?
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