Find out the TRUTH about Terris Fight for life

In Massachusetts, DSS is continuing to take hits on its leadership since Haleigh Poutre and Rebecca Riley.

The move comes a day after the Herald disclosed that DSS lost track of three reports in May 2005 - including a call the accused predator, the Rev. Lawrence Brown, made to a DSS hot line, according to documents reviewed by the Herald. Another 18 months would elapse before DSS was again notified of the alleged abuse, after the accuser, P. Edward Harrison, became suicidal and had to be hospitalized on Oct. 31, 2006.

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This latest hit to the besieged DSS comes as Commissioner Harry Spence has been asked to resubmit his resume, along with about 50 other state officials, to Gov. Deval Patrick.

Yesterday, through his spokesman, Kyle Sullivan, the governor called the allegations “serious and troubling.”

“That is why the governor has asked (Health and Human Services) Secretary (JudyAnn) Bigby to investigate the DSS process in handling this report and assessing the overall system for how we track all cases,” Sullivan said.

Under Spence’s stewardship, DSS has come under fire for the death of Rebecca Riley from a prescription drug overdose, and for its mishandling of the Haleigh Poutre abuse case.

DSS scrutinizes Mount Calvary in abuse

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This story is embedded with a case involving Wal-Mart, a lawyer representing the medical facility disputing the fate of Emilio Gonzales.

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Michael Regier, senior vice president and general counsel for the Seton Family of Hospitals for the past 11 years, is leaving to take a job in Dallas.

Regier will become senior vice president and general counsel for VHA Inc., an Irving-based health care alliance made up of more than 2,400 nonprofit health care organizations.

Regier has represented Seton and doctors in the wrenching case of 18-month-old Emilio Gonzales, who is on life support at Children's Hospital of Austin. Doctors want to stop treating Emilio against his mother's wishes.

Regier, 48, is leaving May 25 and won't be representing Seton in the Gonzales case during a hearing scheduled for May 30 before Travis County Probate Judge Guy Herman. Seton has retained other attorneys for the case, including Yvonne Puig, a partner at Fulbright & Jaworski.

Wal-Mart fires back; Seton's lead lawyer leaving.

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Wagglebee thread. Libs cannot win on logic, so use words as tools, not for their meaning. If they can elicit a response in their favor, the root meanings are irrelevant. Hence they try to control outcomes of polls. Here is a thread on that topic.

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- They say that the wording of a poll can lead to any desired result and previous media polls on whether Americans want the Supreme Court to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade decision have been biased. They've said the case allowed abortions only in the first trimester of pregnancy.

But when the breadth of the decision is explained -- that it and a companion case led to virtually unlimited abortions -- a new survey shows that Americans are more likely to favor overturning it.

Poll: Americans More Likely to Oppose Roe When Abortion Case Explained

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Doug from upland has a thread on the Planned Parenthood reaction to the pro-life girl who faked them out. Thanks, narses.

Lilia Rose, who is the student editor and founder of the student pro-life magazine The Advocate, was contacted by the pro-choice organization after she recorded herself going into a clinic in Santa Monica, Calif., posing as a 15-year-old pregnant girl. She went in for an “abortion” with a man named James O’Keefe, who acted as her 23-year-old boyfriend, which would be considered statutory rape.

The tapes reveal that she was advised by employees to invent a birthday, so she did not appear to be 15, making her situation legal. A letter from Planned Parenthood expressed to her that she had no right to tape the incident, and that she did so without their consent.

Planned Parenthood Threatens Lawsuit Against Pro-Life UCLA Student

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Just-in-case-anyone-is-still-in-doubt story, a WND thread by wagglebee...

Rudy Giuliani has apparently decided if he can't placate pro-lifers, he will overthrow them.

The New York Times reported May 10 the Republican presidential candidate has decided to embrace his pro-abortion position after muddling it in recent days, trying to take a former-radical-liberal-now-thoughtful-liberal-yet-conservative-friendly stance.

Jill Stanek: Rudy's unholy jihad

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Wagglebee thread on the debates...

Columbia, SC (LifeNews.com) -- With Rudy Giuliani getting intense heat over his pro-abortion position in recent weeks, causing him to slide in the polls, the rest of the Republican presidential field tried to grab the pro-life mantle during the second presidential debate. They each tried to outmaneuver the other to say they are the most opposed to abortion.

With most of the candidates going on at length about their pro-life views, Giuliani urged respect for differences of opinion on abortion.

GOP Prez Candidates Reach for Pro-Life Mantle on Abortion in Debate

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Thread on Texas Futile Care law by monomaniac. Thanks, Coleus........................<body> Austin, TX (LifeNews.com) -- The Texas state Senate has approved a bill that would revise a law that allows families just 10 days to find care for a loved one when a medical facility refuses to provide continued lifesaving medical treatment. Under the measure, families would get a minimum of 21 days to locate a medical facility that will care for the patient. Current state law allows medical facilities to determine that a patient is too far gone to receive further care and they can tell families that they will stop lifesaving medical treatment in 10 days. ~Snip~ Those provisions will ensure that patients similar to Terri Schiavo who are marked "futile" by hospital ethics committees can continue to receive food and water while the family searchers for another medical facility. </body> <a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1834302/posts?page=3#3">Texas Senate Approves Bill Reforming Futile Care Law to Help Patients</a> 8mm

Hmm, let me try that one again...

Thread on Texas Futile Care law by monomaniac. Thanks, Coleus.

Austin, TX (LifeNews.com) -- The Texas state Senate has approved a bill that would revise a law that allows families just 10 days to find care for a loved one when a medical facility refuses to provide continued lifesaving medical treatment. Under the measure, families would get a minimum of 21 days to locate a medical facility that will care for the patient.

Current state law allows medical facilities to determine that a patient is too far gone to receive further care and they can tell families that they will stop lifesaving medical treatment in 10 days.

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Those provisions will ensure that patients similar to Terri Schiavo who are marked "futile" by hospital ethics committees can continue to receive food and water while the family searchers for another medical facility.

Texas Senate Approves Bill Reforming Futile Care Law to Help Patients

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Before I say “you’re welcome” in advance, I am curious about your curiosity and wonder if you can clarify a mystery.
You are brand new here on FreeRepublic, according to your date of arrival a few days ago. You have one, only one post, this post first ever on FreeRepublic.
With all the other, the wonderful and interesting topics to attract a newcomer, you chose us in Terri Dailies and our topic as this first post.
Your question is not at all in the pattern of a newbie wanting to find out what we may offer about Terri’s Legacy, but it does sound familiar for past visitors, who have departed. It echoes a technique we have seen before, bait to draw one of us into a trap.
Your ability to formulate the answer in HTML format the very first post is amazing for a newbie even one who has plenty of background.
All in all it makes you stand out like a duck in a doghouse. So I just gotta ask before we go further. Are you a troll, a retread, or legit? If not a troll or retread, please explain the above. If sincere and legit, after I am over the shock, I will be glad to fill you with the best information available on Terri’s Legacy.
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I must say I found your post to be a bit confusing.

I have no idea what "Terri Dailies" are. I have no idea "what [you] may offer"; that sounds rather like a pitch for a once-in-a-lifetime rate on TV Guide or something. I just asked a simple question about a term that was new to me, and which I found a little odd-sounding. If somehow I've offended you, or if you prefer not to answer my question, why just say so right out. No skin off my nose.

I'm not in the habit of submitting myself to an inquisition when I join a chatboard and begin to post on it. Therefore, with no disrespect intended and all the good will in the world, I decline to explain my personal decisions, personal interests, or knowledge of computer formatting languages to someone I don't know and of whom I asked a simple informational question online.

I'll not be troubling you again.

Lovable, cuddly Judge Greer, an otherwise nondescript little judge, rides on his fame, especially in some circles, for his ability to hew a new path in judiciary activism, his success as a probate judge in actually executing a helpless innocent life.

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Tampa, FL (LifeNews.com) -- The judge that authorized the painful euthanasia death of Terri Schiavo is taking his act on the road again. Circuit County Judge George Greer is one of the most controversial figures in law and he frequently speaks at various events -- this time appearing at a Florida Bar conference.

In conjunction with Stetson University's law school, the Florida Bar is hosting a media law seminar focusing on the relationship between the law and the media.

The bar bills the program as a special event for "lawyers, judges, court staff, reporters, editors, news directors, general managers and publishers" and it says it has invited "an extraordinary group of journalists, judges, attorneys and academics" to participate.

That group includes Judge Greer, who had problems of his own when it came to interacting with the media.....................................................................

Terri Schiavo Judge Will Speak at Florida Bar's Media Law Conference

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Smile with pride, Dr. Mengele, wherever you are. Death lovers and kindred spirits celebrate their bold successes, you, Dr. Mengele, could only fantasize.

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She doesn’t have a last name. They call her “Ashley X” or even “Pillow Angel.”

Yesterday, though, people from around the nation visited the UW because of this young girl, to discuss the issue of limiting growth in children with severe disabilities. The forum was an all-day conference held in the Moot Courtroom of William H. Gates Hall.

Ashley’s case sparked discussions about disability after her parents opted to give her what has been dubbed the “Ashley Treatment” when she was 6 years old. Now, Ashley is 9-and-a-half.

The treatment included giving Ashley, who has a severe brain injury that keeps her in an infant-like state, hormones to stunt her growth, keeping her body small. Doctors also removed her uterus and breast buds to prevent the discomfort of menstrual cramps and breast development....................................

Bioethics conference tackles tough medical decisions

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Boasting of past successes in on the same site above...

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Landmark ethical dilemmas in medicine

Case:

Dr. Jack Kevorkian promoted physician-assisted suicide for suffering patients that wanted to end their lives.

Verdict:

Kevorkian was tried many times for assisting with suicides. He was charged in March 1999 and is currently in jail. However, Oregon’s 1994 Death with Dignity Act supported physician-assisted suicide in certain circumstances.

Case:

Tirhas was an illegal immigrant from Eritrea that was diagnosed terminally ill once cancer had spread to her lungs.

Verdict:

She was removed from a respirator in Dec. 2005, despite her family’s disagreement with Texas’ “Advance Directives Act” that allows hospitals remove terminally ill individuals.

Case:

Like the prominent Terri Schiavo case in 2005, Nancy Beth Cruzan was left in a vegetative state after a car accident. Her family wanted the feeding tube removed and fought as far as the Supreme Court.

Verdict:

The court allowed her family to remove the feeding tube, and she died in Dec. 1990.

Case:

Many argue medical marijuana provides therapeutic treatment to individuals in substantial pain, particularly chemotherapy patients.

Verdict:

Medical marijuana is legal in 11 states, including Washington, Oregon and California.

Case:

Terri Schiavo suffered brain damage and became dependent on a feeding tube for 15 years. Her husband, Michael, wanted to remove the feeding tube and fought many legal battles with her parents.

Verdict:

The tube was removed March 2005 after a verdict by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Landmark ethical dilemmas in medicine

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Spare me...

A rant from a lib paints a picture of how such critters think.

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Same for the whole Terri Schiavo episode. Conservatives were up in arms that she would be allowed to die. Bill Frist, you may recall, famously diagnosed her as non-vegetal, based on his review of a video tape. Yet, it surfaced that, of all people, Tom Delay, one of the most vocal of the “save Terry” politicians in Washington, had, some years earlier decided to withdraw life support from his own father who was injured in a freak back yard accident. Just another example of the old “do as I say, not as I do” mentality, I suppose.

And finally, you may remember when House Speaker Pelosi went to the Middle East and made the unpardonable, and, according to some right-wing ideologues, treasonous mistake of meeting with a representative of one of the “Axes of Evil.” Then, of course, when our much vaunted Secretary of State went to the same area, guess what: she herself met with the “evildoers” .

Ethical/moral relativism? Hypocrisy? Maybe, but it just proves the old saying, particularly attractive, it would appear, to conservatives: it all depends on whose ox is being gored.

GADFLY: It's All Relative

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This guy doesn't like Tom DeLay much, in a review of his book. Here is a sample:

Not everyone invited a DeLay attack the way Clinton did. The nadir of DeLay’s career came in 2005, when he led the demagoguery surrounding the removal of Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube, which he reviled as “an act of barbarism.” In his book DeLay again cites lofty principle as his guide in the Schiavo case. “My faith teaches me that life is sacred because human beings are made in the image of God,” he explains. Never mind the previous revelation by the Los Angeles Times that DeLay and his family had quietly pulled the plug on his father in 1988, less than a month after a freak accident left the elder DeLay vegetative. No Retreat makes no mention of such politically inexpedient truths.

DeLay, Ink

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No, this is not O.J....

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"Gay Republican" isn't an oxymoron. But being one means that sometimes, you live in a baffling world.

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Such were scenes from the Log Cabin Republicans national convention earlier this month,—held not in the GOP stronghold of Colorado Springs, but in Denver. In many ways it was a trip back in time, to the days long before the party of George W. Bush, when being Republican stood for personal responsibility, limited government — and staying out of people's bedrooms.

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Simpson also spoke with frustration about members of his own party, whose focus on Terry Schiavo and gay marriage and opposition to stem-cell research, he says, all contributed to GOP losses last November. Those fringe issues, Simpson said, "don't settle well with regular Republican or Democratic voters."

For that matter, "What the hell is [criminalizing abortion] doing in our platform?" he asked.

Though Republicans lost the majority last November, the election was actually a good thing, Simpson said, as it resulted in "shaking some of the goofies and the zanies out of the trees."

And, he noted, gays and lesbians have come light-years in terms of being accepted, just in his lifetime. Call it a "creeping maturity," he said.

He spoke of his mother, who always said that hatred corrodes the containers it comes in. And "those people," Simpson said of the religious right, are filled with gas and body odor and heartburn.

"They smell bad," he said, ultimately drawing an extended standing ovation.

Public Eye Cara DeGette Gays shake out the GOP zanies

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