Posted on 10/25/2007 7:52:37 AM PDT by wagglebee
After the primary, if there isn't a pro-life prez or vp candidate in position to move up to job one, I'm stayin' home.
Jerry Falwell, Jr. just endorsed Huckabee. Falwell chose Huck before he passed. Huck’s not strong on illegal immigration though.
see poll under sidebar: prolife: Thompson or Hunter? I don’t know how to link it. I voted for Duncan Hunter.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/1931792/posts
http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/811744874.html
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Tampa, FL (LifeNews.com) -- The following is the text of the letter Terri Schiavo's brother Bobby sent to each of the candidates for president:
My name is Robert Schindler, Jr. and I am the brother of Terri Schindler Schiavo. Following Terri’s death, my family and I have been working full time to bring attention to the plight of the medically vulnerable and disabled in our society.
I am writing to request you regarding the issues surrounding my sister's death and, even more critically, what this means for the 47 million persons with disabilities here in the United States.
Most people base their opinions regarding Terri’s case solely upon what was reported in the media — a frequently unreliable source. My sister was not dying and this was not an end of life issue. It was the direct and deliberate killing of a person deemed “unworthy of life” by some because she was cognitively disabled.
I would like to respectfully ask for an opportunity to meet with you to provide you with accurate information regarding my sister's case and its broader political implications. I am not attempting to re-try her case, but it is clear that this issue did not die with Terri and is not going to go away or be settled in the public's eyes for many years to come. For your information, I am also requesting meetings with other presidential candidates as their schedules permit, and I plan to issue public statements regarding their responses. It is vitally important that people know where their candidates stand on issues of life and death.
In our effort to share the truth about my sister’s case, and to protect other vulnerable innocents like her both here and abroad, my family has been invited to speak in upwards of 150 cities, in eight countries and on several continents since my sister’s death. Because our nation has such a tremendous impact upon world opinion, I believe it is incumbent upon our U.S. elected officials to pass legislation to safeguard the lives of our disabled citizens. I would be most grateful to you for the opportunity to speak with you personally about this most crucial civil rights issue. I will be in contact with your office shortly to see if such a meeting is possible.
Thank you for your kind consideration.
Sincerely,
Robert Schindler, Jr.
Letter From Terri Schiavo's Brother Bobby to Presidential Candidates
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Thanks to LifeNews for this coverage...
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Tampa, FL (LifeNews.com) -- Terri Schiavo's brother Bobby Schindler met with Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney prior to the GOP debate that will be held tonight in Florida. Schindler has extended an invitation to all of the Republican candidates to meet and discuss his sister's story and end-of-life issues like euthanasia and assisted suicide.
Terri's family talked about how a meeting with a presidential candidate is incredibly important to help shape their views on these key topics.
"Given that the Presidential candidates are repeatedly asked to comment on the circumstances and outcome of Terri Schiavo's case, Mr. Schindler sent a letter to every candidate requesting a meeting," the Schindler family told LifeNews.com in a statement.
The family said Bobby hoped "to discuss the implications of Terri's case on the right to life of people living with disabilities."
Romney is the only candidate to accept an invitation to meet with Terri's brother to this point.
During the meeting, Schindler asked Governor Romney to commit to standing behind the tens of thousands of people with disabilities in America.
After Terri's former husband starved and dehydrated her to death, disabled and elderly patients fear that they may be among those denied food and water against their will simply because someone may deem their life "unworthy of living," Schindler said.
Terri's family said Bobby "is grateful to Governor Romney for taking the time to meet with him. He is hopeful that each Presidential candidate will contact him to arrange similar meetings in the near future."
Following Terri's euthanasia death, her family started a foundation to help disabled and elderly patients find legal support and appropriate medical care.Related web sites:
Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation - http://www.terrisfight.org
Terri Schiavo's Brother Meets With Mitt Romney Before Republican Debate
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Lively discussion thread.
Thanks, LilAngel, for the ping. Wish I could have linked to it earlier.
Hundreds of hospice providers across the country are facing the catastrophic financial consequence of what would otherwise seem a positive development: their patients are living longer than expected.
Over the last eight years, the refusal of patients to die according to actuarial schedules has led the federal government to demand that hospices exceeding reimbursement limits repay hundreds of millions of dollars to Medicare.
The charges are assessed retrospectively, so in most cases the money has long since been spent on salaries, medicine and supplies. After absorbing huge assessments for several years, often by borrowing at high rates, a number of hospice providers are bracing for a new round that they fear may shut their doors.
In Hospice Care, Longer Lives Mean Money Lost (Patients Refuse To Die)
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-- LEARWATER, Fla. - Sliding in the polls, Rudy Giuliani is no longer so sure he can win the Republican nomination by taking Florida after losing earlier small states that traditionally determine the nominees.
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During Wednesday's debate, Republicans saw the Rudy they've been doing their best to pretend did not exist. He wasn't the crime-fighting, terrorist-bashing, smiling hero they've come to like so much.
Instead, he was the gun-grabbing, abortion-supporting philanderer that Republicans don't waste much time with - especially here in Florida where conservatives turned the Terri Schiavo case into a national cause.
But if Giuliani gets his charming swagger back, his Florida strategy might still work, especially since just one week later a host of other big states - including New York, New Jersey and California, all where he fares well - will decide who the GOP nominee will be.
COASTING INTO FLA. MAY COST GIULIANI
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** Has the network apologized or even explained why the wife of its chief campaign correspondent, Carl Cameron, was campaigning for then-candidate George W. Bush? Not to my knowledge.
** And how about that Dr. Hammesfahr whom Hannity touted as a Nobel Prize nominee able to rehabilitate Terri Schiavo? Not only did Hannity not bother to find out that Hammesfahr’s “nomination” was informal and not official but he also never took the trouble to investigate Hammesfahr’s medical record. It seems the good doctor had been reprimanded, placed on probation and fined by the Florida Board of Medicine for charging a patient for services not rendered. Although this information was revealed by us, by Media Matters and was covered on Alan Colmes’ radio show, Sean Hannity has not, as far as I know, corrected the record on Dr. Hammesfahr. Indeed, the FOX News transcript of the interview still retains the misinformation.
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Thanks to TheSarce for the ping.
All across the land this fall, people have been gathering to promote awareness and acceptance of Down syndrome. Central to their message is the idea that people with the condition are valued family members who lead happy, fulfilling lives. At the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, scientists have been meeting to develop research agendas to improve the lives of people with Down syndrome, the genetic condition that results when a person has three copies of the 21st chromosome instead of the usual pair. But in the places where medicine is practiced, a very different and less benevolent awareness of Down syndrome reigns. As a result of recent changes in technology and standards of care, women are undergoing prenatal diagnostics for Down syndrome in unprecedented numbers -- often multiple times during their pregnancies. When the condition is detected, they are having abortions at rates that are thought to approach 90 percent. Those of us who actually have relationships with people with Down syndrome, and who see them achieving and thriving in their communities, view this paradox as baffling at best, tragic at worst. We cherish our friends and family members and think their unexpected extra chromosome is not the most important thing about them. And we worry that the relentlessness of genetic testing is amplifying stigma and bias against the 350,000 flesh-and-blood Americans who have the condition, as well as people who have other conditions that are now or soon will be prenatally discoverable. In recent conversations with obstetricians and gynecologists, I've found that we family members aren't the only ones with these fears. Physicians say they're disturbed by mounting demands from prospective parents for nothing less than the "perfect" child,. ..
If the Test Says Down Syndrome
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" As November 2007 draws to a close, it will be full three years since American forces razed the Iraqi city of Fallujah to ground. It was in November 2004 that George Bush’s forces played havoc with that city and its unfortunate inhabitants in the name of God. While the American media chose to remain blind to the utter horror of it all, busy as it was with keeping a close watch over the life and death of Terri Schindler Schiavo, Dr. Hafidh al-Dulaimi, the head of “the Commission for the Compensation of Fallujah citizens” reported the destruction that American troops inflicted on Fallujah.
REMEMBERING THE HORROR AND SHAME OF FALLUJAH
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With "The Republican" of Massachusetts in the forefront once again we have an update on proceedings on the case.
Thanks, BB, for the tip.
SPRINGFIELD - The lawyer for Jason D. Strickland said he will ask Judge James J. Collins to remove himself from the high-profile case alleging assault and battery on a child with serious injury to Haleigh Poutre, Strickland's stepdaughter.
Alan J. Black, Strickland's lawyer, told Collins Tuesday during a contentious hearing on the case, that he is still working on a motion to request Collins to step down from the case.
Strickland's previous lawyer, Greg T. Schubert, had also filed a motion for Collins to step down, but it was never heard because Schubert withdrew from the case...........
New judge sought in Poutre case
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.........................The need for young people to have a living will or power of attorney became evident in the Terri Schiavo case in 2005.
Schiavo, of Florida, died after a long battle between her spouse and parents about whether to go forward with life-prolonging treatment.
She was admitted to the hospital at age 26 after losing consciousness due to complications from an eating disorder and remained in a vegetative state for 15 years.
After Schiavo's feeding tube was removed, she died two weeks later.
Becker said had Schiavo drafted a living will, it might have prevented the arguments between her husband and parents because the decision would not have been up to them.
"Having a living will is like saying, 'This is what I want to happen to me if this happens,'" Becker said. "Having the power of attorney is appointing someone to make those decisions if you're not able to.".................
Mother says even young adults need wills
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A recent AP news report has concluded, after compiling the results of numerous studies over the years, that there is a strong and disturbing link between severe child abuse and non-traditional family environments. In the article' words:
"[Scholars and caseworkers] note an ever increasing share of America's children grow up in homes without both biological parents, and say the risk of child abuse is markedly higher in the nontraditional family structures."
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I am not sure what is going over at the progressive AP, but the report's conclusions demonstrate in utterly stark terms a fundamental truth that conservatives have held dear since the time of Aristotle (or, if you are from China, since at least the time of Confucius): Natural Law. I was told once by a very smart professor that Aristotle was much smarter than I was, and he was right. He also told me that Aristotle would resurface every now and then, in the form of nature, to remind us in often ugly ways, of our excesses, and of our proper limits. We know, for example, that study after study demonstrates a link between abortion and depression, and abortion and suicide. We also know now that there are studies showing strong connections between abortion and breast cancer. Aristotle's great Christian interpreter, St. Thomas Aquinas, argued that divorce was also unnatural, and that two parent families were natural:
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I resent that we now must file legal paperwork requesting that which has always been provided as a matter of common decency. Never before in the history of this great nation has our government had the power to subject us to death, merely for failing to fill out paperwork they claim is optional.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1933549/posts Communism A Failure, Says Former Estonian PM
There’s a report called “Bloody Harvest” compiled by two Canadians detailing the theft of organs from living Falun Gong practitioners to supply China’s lucrative organ transplant industry.
Pardon my not using html. If I make the above quote italics, which is easy enough, then I have to use an html code for the link, which is not so easy. I can’t copy/paste, so I might have made some typos in transcribing. Please just pretend not to notice. Go read the rest of it. There’s some important stuff there.
Thanks for the ping. I forgot my thread. This thread is also noteworthy, IMHO, even if I didn’t read all of the comments.
LilAngel goes to the core of the leftist mind, the communist mind and allied enemies of those of us pro-life and pro-decency. The old quote comes to mind immediately and whether one credits it with Benjamin Franklin, or Albert Einstein (A bit leftist himself..) it rings true and applicable here.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
Benjamin Franklin
In this instance the left always pursues communism/socialism as the answer long after proven monstrous failures just as if the next time it will work. The numbers of failed attempts in this vein are equally monsrous in numbers and effects. How could a whole faction of life be insane? Maybe it hints at the meaning of evil.
Where this touches upon us is the link shown to us by LilAngel to one result of this insanity/evil. The thread is by JACKRUSSELL
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This means that this is a country that needs our attention, and the people who are fighting for freedom and for human rights need our support. The question of different atrocities must be raised. The Communist Party is an evil force.
We must remember what has happened to China. This beautiful culture, a country with such a rich culture and history, how much of it was destroyed during communist rule—it's really one of the greatest destructions that has taken place in human civilization.
NTDTV: There's a report called "Bloody Harvest" compiled by two Canadians detailing the theft of organs from living Falun Gong practitioners to supply China's lucrative organ transplant industry. Some people find this so horrifying they don't want to believe it's true. What do you say to them?
Laar: I remember this very well when I lived under communism. It was very sad to see how the world even then ignored the same question. They said "No, no, it's overestimated, it couldn't be so bad. Such evil doesn't exist." How many people believed that the concentration camps and the holocaust existed?
I remember very well how we hoped that somebody would raise their voice in the free world to really say loudly what is happening in the Soviet communist system. We were not listened to, we were not heard for a long time.
Ronald Reagan was heavily criticized in the west when he called the Soviet Union an "evil empire." But for us it was a very positive message, and it was enormously important in encouraging people to initiate action against the dictatorship.
Communism A Failure, Says Former Estonian PM
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I am simply whelmed.
Also, I am very sorry about the victims in her family and the victim she is of the trap of leftist logic.
The neo-con talking heads still term caring social policies as "liberal." But that's peculiar considering they find it virtuous for women to stay at home to raise children (and not accrue social security) -- yet they find providing state-sponsored access to healthcare for those very same children to be somehow contemptuous.
Or, in the case of Terri Schiavo, would keeping her alive been less heroic to conservatives if it weren't an insurance company paying for her care? Perhaps that would have been deemed government intervention rather than right-to-life?
Double-Whammy: U.S. Healthcare Hits Us Up One Side and Down the Other
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