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TAVARES - A doctor best known for performing the autopsy of Terri Schiavo has been named interim medical examiner for Lake and four other counties.
Pinellas-Pasco County Medical Examiner Jon R. Thogmartin, who also worked on cases involving victims of the ValuJet crash in the Everglades, will complete the term of Dr. Steven Cogswell.
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Since the resignations, medical examiners from Thogmartin's office in Pinellas County have filled in at the Leesburg office, which employs about 20 people. Thogmartin will oversee both the Pinellas-Pasco office and the District 5 operation.
In the highly emotional Schiavo case, which sparked a passionate debate about end-of-life wishes, Thogmartin denied rival requests by the brain-damaged woman's parents and by her husband to allow their own pathologists to observe the autopsy.
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Recall, in the critical days of Terri's suffering Alan Keyes stood by us and fought to save Terri as few have. Elites and their echoes in the media and even here on FreeRepublic are quick to laugh down this fine and honorable man who just does not get the approval of the RINO's and compromisers in places of power. Helen Valois has worked tirelessly as well, fighting for Terri's Legacy.
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They're still signing on. People from across the country are going to the petition at AlanKeyes.com every day and adding their names and remarks to the list of those who are hoping, praying, and working to see Alan Keyes run for President in 2008.
The petition itself represents only the tip of a conservative iceberg submerged under a virtual media blackout of the draft-Keyes effort, an iceberg that is ready to sink a RINO nomination as surely as the hunk of ice that sank the Titanic.
Only a relative few are aware of this phenomenon — but happily, the mainstream media doesn't actually create reality. At best, it only mimics it. Those who want to know what is really going on — and who want to participate in it themselves — can easily do so and can encourage others to do so as well.
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What Mrs. Brown aptly describes as a "watershed moment" in our national history is certainly upon us. We used to have two major parties that were pro-life, as indeed Americans qua Americans — regardless of political affiliation — understood themselves to be, as well. Pressured by the radicals who promote the notions of Margaret Sanger, however, the Democrats eventually went pro-choice, while "pro-abortion" is the only possible description of their stance by now.
(Correction: Even the term "pro-abortion" no longer covers it, actually. Democratic frontrunner Barack Obama, after all, failed to support the Born Alive Infants Protection Act while he was a senator in Illinois, indicating that, as surely as "pro-choice" becomes "pro-abortion," "pro-abortion" becomes "pro-infanticide" and — in view of the Schindler-Schiavo slaying — "pro-euthanasia" as well. A friend of ours once told me, from the comfort of my own living room couch, that what I was telling him about Obama simply couldn't be the case, since the Democratic "rising star" is obviously — as the media unfailingly presents him — such a wonderful and winning guy. It's truly blood-chilling, the extent to which the simple facts of our political situation have been successfully banished from our mainstream discussion of it.)
Alan's the key: Ask his growing corps of supporters for '08
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NEW FLORIDA LIFE OR DEATH CASE: LISA SCHWAB. (heard on radio). Medical staff ready to unplug but parents say no.