Posted on 12/10/2007 4:23:03 PM PST by wagglebee
NEW YORK, December 10, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation and Priests for Life have jointly announced the establishment of the "International Day of Prayer and Remembrance for Terri Schindler Schiavo, and All of Our Vulnerable Brothers and Sisters" ("Terri's Day"), to be observed each year on March 31, the date of Terri's death.
The purpose of the day, the groups explained, is to foster education, prayer, and activism regarding discrimination against the disabled, and advocacy for people in situations similar to what Terri and her family faced.
Fr. Frank Pavone said, "Those of us who were with Terri will never forget her life and her death. For the sake of all the vulnerable, it is critically important that those who never knew Terri likewise remember the lessons that God taught us through her."
Suzanne Vitadamo, Terri's sister, adds, "No family should ever have to witness what my family witnessed, watching a loved one slowly dehydrate to death. We want Terri's day to remind us all that persons with disabilities are never burdens and should be treated with nothing but our unconditional love and compassion."
In the early weeks of 2008, educational and prayer materials will be released that can be used by parishes, disability and pro-life groups and all communities to observe Terri's Day.
See Terri's Fight and Priests for Life websites:
http://www.terrisfight.org/
http://www.priestsforlife.org/
She may of said that, but I don't believe that is how she really feels. It just doesn't add up. If it didn't mean anything to her she would've dropped it a long time ago. Unfortunately Terri is a very small market to waste time on to someone who does not care about the above. I agree, she is tough to figure. JMO
Maybe I am just completely stupid though.
Drew Peterson reminds me a lot of Scott Peterson, I wonder if they are related.
Naturally they look alike, have the same father, the father of lies.
Scott Peterson and Drew Peterson don’t really look alike, but they act a lot alike.
They have that “look”.
White Martyr
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Terrible injustices sometimes mark turning points in the political history of Nations. I pray that Terri’s death becomes such an event; an impetus for a new coalition for life, family, freedom and solidarity. If it does, Terri’s martyrdom will not have been in vain.
LOS ANGELES (Catholic Online) - The news out of Pinellas Park, Florida broke the hearts of all decent people. It shook us to the core.
Terri Schiavo was dead, intentionally deprived of food and water, with the force of the raw power of government holding the hands of the executioners.
She was killed deliberately, by starvation and dehydration. No Court, Legislative body or Chief Executive had the courage to stop this killing. She was deprived of her substantive due process rights by every branch of government.
Terri was not dying. She was not receiving any "extraordinary medical treatment." She was being fed and given water, as many disabled people are at this very moment, with assistance. She had trouble swallowing because she was disabled by damage to her brain.
She would have lived for many, many years, bringing great joy to her family and changing the world. But now she is dead; killed by the complete abject failure of a system that has lost its soul.
The Greek word for "witness" is "martyrion". In our use of the word over all these centuries of Christian history, we have emphasized those who shed their blood for the faith. However, there is also a tradition of "white martyrs", those who live sacrificial lives that change the world.
That is what Terri did. None of us will forget her smile. We all adopted her beautiful family. We now mourn her loss and share, at least a little, in their deep pain. We must also become outraged at the sheer evil of this killing and we must act.
Terri Schiavo is a martyr. She had her life taken away by the enforcers of a New Rome. Remember, the old Rome also had an elaborate system of courts and a highly developed legislative system. It prided itself on its culture, its arts and its claims to "civilization." Yet, it legally sanctioned horrors such as the practice of exposure, where children, the disabled and other "unwanted" persons were left on rocks to die by exposure to the elements or to be killed by hostile passers by. We now do the same.
The killing of Terri Schindler must mark a turning point in American history. Terri was killed while "the law" was unwilling to intervene. Her death stripped away the veneer of civility painted on the face of the current culture of death. It was a diabolical event, plain and simple.
The rejection of the inherent value of every human life as a foundation of our whole understanding of ordered liberty is a clear and present danger. We face a serious risk to both life and liberty when reference to the truth is removed as the measuring stick for our behavior. Authentic freedom has been replaced by a counterfeit. The very foundation of decency is shaken.
To honor Terri, we should dedicate ourselves to the long term work of building a new society, a culture of life and civilization of love, where the dignity of every human life will be the polestar of all public policy; marriage and family will be protected as the first mediating institution and defended against those who aim to replace and eradicate them; authentic freedom will be exercised in reference to truth and within a moral constitution, and our obligations in solidarity to one another, and most especially those who have no voice, will be upheld by elected and unelected public servants.
With all the talk of the "religious influence" in America, the martyrdom of Terri Schiavo reveals the lack of a national soul. Terri was killed in a manner reminiscent of past evil regimes.
I am reminded of the old adage attributed to the English Philosopher Alisdair Macintyre who, commenting on the decay in English society, once said "The Creed of the English is that there is no God but it is proper to pray to him once in a while." Without reference to the Source of unalienable rights, the One who placed the hunger for true justice within every human heart, we have become unmoored as a Nation.
Terrible injustices sometimes mark turning points in the political history of Nations. I pray that Terri’s death becomes such an event; an impetus for a new coalition for life, family, freedom and solidarity. If it does, Terri’s martyrdom will not have been in vain.
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Washington Post sets the MSM tone again with this. Right-to-die??? Uh huhhhh.
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Fred Thompson may yet win the Republican presidential nomination next year. But if he doesn't, his story is likely to be that of a perfect opportunity squandered.
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All of which might have been fine if his performance upon entering had been flawless. After a summer when his still-unofficial campaign was plagued by defections and turnover, his announcement tour was widely panned as flat and vague. And he quickly annoyed the religious conservatives who had placed their hope in him by not supporting a federal amendment to ban same-sex marriage. He made several early gaffes -- suggesting that it wasn't important to go after Osama bin Laden and saying that he didn't know enough to comment about the Terri Schiavo right-to-die case.
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Republican State House Speaker Marco Rubio, R-West Miami, is opposing key policies of Gov. Charlie Crist (R) on Indian gaming rights and climate change. He’s also trying to one-up the popular governor on property-tax reform by throwing in with a citizens’ petition movement to bypass the modest relief passed by the Legislature and signed by Crist. ~Snip~ Huckabee is unlikely to win Florida’s Republican presidential primary Jan. 29, although it’s possible. It would be more than that if one out of every 18 Floridians didn’t have ties to New York State, Rudy Giuliani’s home. But Rubio joining hands with Huckabee keeps Rubio as the alternative to the anemic Republican status quo, and, again, without playing the eccentric rebel like Ron Paul. Ironically, association with Huckabee needles Rubio into territory thought to be Crist's exclusive terrain -- the populist margins of the GOP. It's little known yet, but Huckabee's GOP opponents will soon alert everyone that Huckabee as governor of Arkansas sometimes resembled Crist as governor of Florida. Both men are willing to use government to fashion policy, instead of always apologizing for it. The point isn’t that Rubio is some shoo-in to catapult to Florida governor or other high positions one day. Only that he’s playing his cards as shrewdly as one can in Florida, where legislative term limits choke off budding political careers just when they’re growing some stalk. He’s nurturing name ID all over, and slowly coaxing Florida’s right wing back from out of the shadows following the Teri Schiavo fiasco and the rout of Tom Gallagher in last year’s governor’s race.
Cinematic Republican Cuban state House Speaker Challenging His Own Governor in Florida
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............Already we've seen science form the basis of some of the thorniest public policy issues in recent history, from the fate of Terri Schiavo to the fate of evolution in schools and the fate of the Earth. A presidential debate on science would help voters determine who among the candidates is up to the task of dealing with whatever comes next................
Make science part of the debate
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The same death dealers who snarled after the very life of Terri seek the same theme in Italy as the Vatican came out on Terri's side. Thanks to TheSarce for a ping to this thread by bruinbirdman.
Senior medical figures in Italy are campaigning to scrap the Hippocratic Oath for doctors on the ground that the passages forbidding abortion and euthanasia are outdated.
Italian doctors want to scrap ‘outdated’ Hippocratic Oath
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Herein lies the problem with this as I see it:
Evolution vs. Creation: I've never seen ANYBODY change their mind on this subject, they either believe one or the other. And I very much think the danger of Darwin is not so much his theories of nature, but his and his families eugenics beliefs.
The "fate of the Earth": By this I assume they mean global warming. Again, INTELLIGENT people have already made up their minds on whether they are going to believe hype.
Terri: Despite everything, NOBODY on either side ever suggested that Terri was in any danger of dying if she was allowed to have nutrition and hydration. The only thing to "debate" is whether society has the "right" to arbitrarily decide which lives are "worth living" and since both the Constitution and Declaration of Independence strongly come down on the fact that the right to live is endowed by God, there is still nothing to debate.
Has it escaped Hollywood’s notice that a judge has all but declared her an unfit mother or that she can’t act to begin with?
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Two researchers say reducing abortions in the United States would significantly cut the rate of premature births. They say the rate has increased as abortion has been legalized and point to Poland as an example of how banning or significantly reducing abortions would help pregnant women.............
Reducing Abortions Would Significantly Cut Premature Birth Rate
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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The national organization for obstetricians and gynecologists is coming under fire for a new policy saying all doctors, including those who are pro-life, should refer women to abortion centers. Dozens of pro-life groups have issued a new letter condemning the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) position.
National OBGYN Group Says Pro-Life Doctors Should Refer for Abortions
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Just further proof of the left's desire to destroy Christianity. Though in a lot of ways I thought they story from a couple years ago about having Paris Hilton play Mother Teresa was even more absurd simply because she is at least a foot taller than Mother Teresa was.
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