Battle Over Possible Euthanasia of New York Teenager Gets Pro-Life Attention

Life News ^ | 1/1/08 | Steven Ertelt

[wagglebee]

Bronx, NY (LifeNews.com) -- The battle over the life and death of a teenage girl in New York has drawn the attention of pro-life advocates in recent days. The fight to save Javona Peters reminds some of the struggle of the Schindler family in Florida to save the life of Terri Schiavo, a beloved daughter and sibling whose former husband eventually took her life.

In this case, Peters' parents are disagreeing on whether or not to remove her feeding tube and take her life.

Peters fell into a coma in October while she had a routine medical procedure at Montefiore Medical Center. Doctors have pegged her as being in a persistent vegetative state, a medical diagnosis pro-life advocates dispute because so many patients have partially or fully recovered.

Peters' parents were never married and are estranged and have considered a medical malpractice suit against the hospital, according to a New York Daily News report.

But Janet Joseph and Leonard Peters are also feuding over Peters' care and have each filed separate requests to be given custody of their daughter. Peters has been opposed to removing the feeding tube but has wavered recently.

Edward Gersowitz, an attorney for Joseph, told the newspaper that "Because of her condition, she cannot make decisions for herself, and the court will have to appoint a guardian to make decisions for her."

As a teen, Peters doesn't have a living will or some other advanced directive providing guidelines for the type of medical treatment, or withdrawal, she favors.

The case has drawn the attention of the Schindler family, which sent out a notice about the case from its foundation, which helps disabled patients receive legal help and appropriate medical care.

Leading bioethics watchdog Wesley J. Smith has also commented on it and he says the PVS diagnosis seems "rushed" to him.

Smith says he sympathizes with the father and the pressure he is under to take Peters' life.

"We know that too often medical teams and social workers pressure and cajole for such outcomes," he said.

Smith draws comparisons to the case of Haleigh Poutre, a Massachusetts girl whom LifeNews.com reported was also declared PVS, but who has recovered from the abuse she suffered.

In that case, state government officials had ordered her feeding tube removed but she recovered from the PVS state shortly beforehand.

[floriduh voter]

Go, Bobby.

[floriduh voter]

Just remember this... The ONLY GOP presidential candidate who met with Bobby Schindler was Mitt Romney. (are the other so called pro-lifers chicken?)

[floriduh voter]

Thank God Judge Greer isn’t near Javona. She’d be gone as soon as the malpractice money spoils went to the death cult attorneys and the aclu.

[floriduh voter]

Even the deceased, euthanasia enthusiast Dr. CRANFORD's guidelines are that Javona does not fit the criteria to end her life.

It is rushed per the departed Cranford's standards.

[floriduh voter]

Give Javona some AMBIEN. It wakes people up but that would be too easy...better to drag her through the courts to dehumanize her.

Javona's Mom, tell them to give her Ambien. Thanks, mom.

[floriduh voter]

Mike Huckabee is not putting on the conception to natural death spin. That’s not what he’s been saying and therefore, this is another reason for me to say “no” to Huck. It’s a little late for him to decide that euthanasia is wrong. It’s so obvious Huck is being handled and handled. He has that Ed guy who is a troublemaker. What’s Ed’s name, bald guy, glasses?

[floriduh voter]

TYPO CORRECTION: Mike Huckabee is NOW putting on the conception to natural death spin. Flip flop. No thanks. He lost me in the first debate. No can do.

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Ed guy as I recall, a boxer, and a pragmatist, came on to the Reagan gang with all the right words and was generally accepted by true idealists but he was not one himself. His surface colors proved to be not spin proof after a few wash cycles and faded although his mentor, Lyn Nofziger, always remained pure. A few others fell in to this category. Power lust works better than Tide to bring out the true colors. Ed guy is Rollins.

[8mmMauser]

Hi Jack. Or maybe we don't know Jack...

Is he trying to sound like a redeemable mass murderer who also has the good qualities of supporting the Second Amendment or is he trying to tie his evil killings onto something good to bring himself up, or to bring us down?

That rings a cracked bell, in his spaced out idea of who we are. Who of us Second Amendment supporters packs an UZI as a gun toter in public? I know I don't. I contend you can't deal with the Devil or his ambassador and come out unscathed. His adoring fans got themselves dirty and just don't know it yet.

Actually, I misjudged earlier, thinking the JBT gang would be out in force, but sounds like this crowd posed little threat to his theses. Scary....

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GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Jack Kevorkian was paid $50,000 to speak at the University of Florida on Tuesday, telling students that he did nothing wrong and that people should be allowed to carry Uzis down the streets.

Kevorkian, who says he assisted in at least 130 deaths, said he didn't cause death, but ended suffering

"I am a physician. I knew how to do it. ... I did it humanely," Kevorkian told 4,867 students and faculty.

~Snip~

He also urged students to take advantage to their right to bear arms, enshrined in the Second Amendment to the Constitution.

"You should be able to carry an Uzi down the street if you aren't threatening someone," he said.

Kevorkian called the U.S. Supreme Court "a bunch of liars and negligent in their duties."

The university received almost 2,000 e-mails protesting the Kevorkian speech, although most came from out-of-state and were form letters.

The Terry Schindler Schiavo Foundation also submitted a petition with more than 5,000 signatures asking the university to cancel the speech. The foundation was established after the death of Terry Schiavo, a Florida woman who died in 2005 after being removed from a feeding tube in a high-profile battle between the woman's husband and her parents and siblings.

Kevorkian defends himself -- and gets paid $50,000... He speaks at Fla. university about politics and Uzis

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[8mmMauser]

Hi Jack. Or maybe we don't know Jack...

Is he trying to sound like a redeemable mass murderer who also has the good qualities of supporting the Second Amendment or is he trying to tie his evil killings onto something good to bring himself up, or to bring us down?

That rings a cracked bell, in his spaced out idea of who we are. Who of us Second Amendment supporters packs an UZI as a gun toter in public? I know I don't. I contend you can't deal with the Devil or his ambassador and come out unscathed. His adoring fans got themselves dirty and just don't know it yet.

Actually, I misjudged earlier, thinking the JBT gang would be out in force, but sounds like this crowd posed little threat to his theses. Scary....

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GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Jack Kevorkian was paid $50,000 to speak at the University of Florida on Tuesday, telling students that he did nothing wrong and that people should be allowed to carry Uzis down the streets.

Kevorkian, who says he assisted in at least 130 deaths, said he didn't cause death, but ended suffering

"I am a physician. I knew how to do it. ... I did it humanely," Kevorkian told 4,867 students and faculty.

~Snip~

He also urged students to take advantage to their right to bear arms, enshrined in the Second Amendment to the Constitution.

"You should be able to carry an Uzi down the street if you aren't threatening someone," he said.

Kevorkian called the U.S. Supreme Court "a bunch of liars and negligent in their duties."

The university received almost 2,000 e-mails protesting the Kevorkian speech, although most came from out-of-state and were form letters.

The Terry Schindler Schiavo Foundation also submitted a petition with more than 5,000 signatures asking the university to cancel the speech. The foundation was established after the death of Terry Schiavo, a Florida woman who died in 2005 after being removed from a feeding tube in a high-profile battle between the woman's husband and her parents and siblings.

Kevorkian defends himself -- and gets paid $50,000... He speaks at Fla. university about politics and Uzis

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[8mmMauser]

Sorreee...

Second Amendment issues just bring out the reflexive double tap.

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[8mmMauser]

Here is a reading challenge for libertarians and librarians.

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Kinsley seems to understand the moral vision of libertarianism — that it isn't right to steal from someone to benefit someone else, or to force someone to do or not do something that isn't harming someone else's life or property. But then he tries to use his own preferences to decide what rights of personal autonomy are really "serious." The Terri Schiavo Terri Schiavo case was not the apotheosis of libertarianism — to begin with, it was too sullied with complicated questions of whose autonomy was being respected. More than the "right to die," libertarians defend the right to live the life of your choice.....................

Real libertarianism... Reason magazineÂ’s Brian Doherty responds to Michael Kinsley.

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[ican'tbelieveit]

Correction for you: parents were never married.

[8mmMauser]

This just in from, uhhhh, Guyana...

We have the blind reading the blind.

America's founders understood the dangers of religious factions well enough for them to insist that the church and state be kept apart. In recent times the line between the two has become increasingly blurred, often with terrible results (abstinence education programmes, the federal government's refusal to fund groups that provide family planning advice, bans on stem-cell research, the political opera surrounding Terry Schiavo and so on, almost ad nauseam). Depending on their choice of candidate -particularly within the GOP- the upcoming elections will offer the country a chance to restore some of the system's lost balance.

What is at stake is not really faith so much as the separation of the executive's functions from its own exclusive religious beliefs, the relationship between the president's faith and matters of public policy. America has always been a devoutly religious nation, only recently has it started to become blindly so.........

The party faithful

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[8mmMauser]

The Netherlands becomes The Neverlands of dark dreams as in this thread by wagglebee.

NETHERLANDS, January 16, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Dutch paediatric neurosurgeon Rob de Jong, in collaboration with peers from several other countries, has expressed his concern at the practice in the Netherlands of carrying out euthanasia on some babies born with spina bifida in an article in the medical journal Child's Nervous System.

According to a report by Radio Netherlands Worldwide, the lives of a small number of babies are terminated each year by doctors who, together with the parents, believe the infant is experiencing unbearable suffering and will continue to suffer in this way in the future...........

Paediatric Neurosurgeons Criticize Dutch Practice of Euthanasia on Babies With Spina Bifida

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[8mmMauser]

Sleazy Veazey, in a thread by wagglebee...

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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- With the thirty-fifth anniversary of the infamous Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case coming next week, the head of a pro-abortion group for religious groups and leaders is bemoaning the fact that not enough clergy are promoting abortion.

However, the organization will be hard-pressed to find converts from among the Catholic and Protestant denominations that strongly oppose abortion.

Reverend Carlton Veazey, the head of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, says he's worried that, on this anniversary of Roe, "our country is on the brink of abandoning its commitment that abortion will be" available.

Veazey, a pastor of a Baptist church in Washington, D.C., is worried that the Supreme Court's upholding the national ban on partial-birth abortions and state personhood initiatives and abortion bans are "sounding the death knell for the landmark constitutional decision."...........

Pro-Abortion Religious Leader Bemoans Lack of Clergy Backing Roe v. Wade

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[wagglebee]

I assume that Dr. Death’s homicide “machine” was confiscated by prosecutors prior to his conviction, now it sounds as if he’s going to just start shooting his victims with an Uzi rather than go to the trouble and expense of building a new machine.

[floriduh voter]

Yes, Ed Rollins may be a double agent for Huckabee. It seems to me that Huck is going wild. Maybe Rollins is giving Huck bad advice to sink his campaign.

[floriduh voter]

FTI: Ann Coulter picks Mitt and why.

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=59734

[8mmMauser]

Dr. Jack exposed himself to a large crowd. Well, it was only his mind exposed but that was obscene enough. What a surprise he railed against Catholics, well maybe not. His gods and their guidance are opposite God of the Christians and Jews.

Yet from there, Kevorkian digressed into an attack on Catholic doctors, the Hippocratic oath and religion. Kevorkian said that the Hippocratic oath "wasn't discussed in medical school, and our class never took the oath. It isn't a medical oath; you pledge allegiance to all the gods and goddess, the pagan gods and goddesses of Greeks - what sense is that today?" He added that the Hippocratic oath was the byproduct of a "secret, small Pythagorean sect" that was the only group to oppose the ancient tradition of a physician helping a terminally ill patient end his life.

"The only oath we have, the only ethics we have in medicine are religious ethics" and "religion is nothing more than a made-up mythology [and] the basis of religion is fear."

"A doctor limited by dogma isn't a real physician; he should have been a priest," Kevorkian said. "They think life's sacred... I don't feel sacred, frankly. I've got a life and I don't feel sacred."

Jack Kevorkian Speaks Out Against Catholic Doctors, Religion And Oregon's Suicide Law

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