Terri Schiavo's Family Launches New Radio Program on Protecting the Disabled

Tampa, FL (LifeNews.com) -- The foundation that Terri Schiavo's family created after her death is continuing its efforts to help the elderly and disabled obtain appropriate medical care. The foundation is launching a new radio program on a Tampa station that will be simulcast on the Internet and later expanded to other Florida stations.

The Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation will start the new America's Lifeline program this weekend life from the Tampa studios of Talk Radio 860 WGUL, a Christian station.

Prominent radio health care advocate Cary Hall will co-sponsor the program along with Terri's brother Bobby Schinder and her sister Suzanne Vitadamo, the foundation's directors.

Hall is also the host of a successful radio show called The Health Insurance Advocate which broadcasts from two Midwest stations.

"America's Lifeline is something we've wanted to do for some time," Vitadamo told LifeNews.com on Thursday.

"With Cary Hall's health care expertise my family's experience trying to save Terri, and now running her foundation which works to save those like Terri, we'll be able to educate Americans and raise awareness about the euthanasia movement like never before," she added.

Vitadamo said the program would focus on controversial cases of people who have been subjected to potential euthanasia or denial of lifesaving medical treatment, such as Lauren Richardson in Delaware.

It will help people learn about the best advanced directives for treatment, learn about the dangers of assisted suicide, focus on state and federal laws and explain how hospice care can be helpful.

The program will also delve into the controversial futile care theory whereby hospitals and doctors are more routinely giving up on providing care for patients they consider "too far gone."

The America's Lifeline debut is set for 3 PM EST on Saturday, March 15, 2008 and it will also be streamed worldwide via the Internet at http://860wgul.townhall.com.

The program is poised to expand into other Florida radio markets including Orlando and Miami.

Related web sites:
Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation - http://www.terrisfight.org

This belongs in #320 as well.

Failure to adopt an Oregon-style death and dying law in other states is not because Americans reject laws promoting further autonomy at the end of life. Public opinion polls assessing government attempts in 2005 to keep Terri Schiavo alive in a persistent vegetative state indicated that Americans largely disapproved of officials' actions, viewing them as an unwelcome government intrusion into the most personal of life decisions. Those responses surprised legislators and pro-life advocates.

Our comments on the Schiavo case in 2005, about changing expectations concerning autonomy and choice in decisions about death and dying, still strike at the heart of the matter: "What the recently intense national discussion demonstrates is that below the radar of politicians, political strategists and analysts, such change has slowly but surely come through the many conversations that have taken place in family kitchens, hospital hallways and church offices over the last 30 years."..........

Another telling story in post #317.

On EWTN shortwave radio, they told about a 20-year old man who was “brain dead” so they asked the family if they could use his body parts. The family agreed, because after all, he was “brain dead.”

Then a nurse ON HER OWN took a knife and put it in the young man’s foot and he reacted.

Long story short - he had physical therapy and was home four months’ later DRIVING an automobile.

It makes me wonder why medical people don’t automatically do something like this as a matter of procedure. I wish a pro-life congressperson would make this some kind of law.

How about we start collecting names of pro-life politicians who are running for office soon.

Here’s one:

ANDY HARRIS is a guy worth fighting for, and I hope everyone checks out his website.

“Abortion
As a father of five, Andy is pro-life. He is a leader in the pro-life movement in both the Maryland State Senate and the state of Maryland as a whole.”

http://andyharris08.org/issues/abortion.html

We especially need more pro-life congresspersons and U.S. senators.

Hill frozen over with B.O....

Recall, "Left" comes from the Latin, "sinister" and this is the party of those as leftist as they come. The party has slipped beyond equivocation, beyond hope just as Clinton left the town of Hope, AR. behind ages ago.

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Someone watching the Democratic candidates debate could be forgiven for wondering if they're viewing a year-old videotape.

But the reality is Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama are so hidebound by ideology and beholden to left-wing interest groups that actual events are not allowed to intrude on their scripts.

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Pro-life conservatives generally have two straw men to battle when arguing their case, one from each end of the life cycle — the case for embryonic life and some variation on the Terry Schiavo case. In each instance, the charge of religious extremism is likely to be hurled.

Because the charge that the argument in favor of embryonic right to life is purely a religious one, prominent bioethicists Robert P. George and Christopher Tollefsen set out on what might seem a peculiar task. In Embryo: A Defense of Human Life, they decide to make the case for the rights of human embryos absent any religious argument whatsoever.................

The Party of Death

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This ought to be revealing...

'Before and After Schiavo'— 5 p.m. today. Carmela Epright discusses ways in which the Terri Schiavo case affects bioethics and public policy. St. Edward's University, Fleck Hall, Room 305; 3001 S. Congress Ave. Free. 464-8871.

Learning Calendar Classes and workshops this week

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Woo who? They sure don't woo us.

Tales from the dark side, from the enemy camp, from the worshipers of death, show once again, they can't shake Terri's Legacy. Even if we didn't remind, the leftists do it so often.

But what should really put the anti-choice community on the radar of the skeptical community is their hostility to science and their affection for anti-scientific claims. Anti-choicers make outlandish claims about the brain activity and feelings of embryos and fetuses, claims that could potentially affect a woman who obtained an abortion and believed lies about what happened later. They make deeply unscientific claims about how hormonal contraception causes abortion in order to give cover to a larger anti-contraception agenda. They make claims about how condoms don't work in an effort to dissuade people from using this potentially life-saving prevention device. And let's not get into the unscientific, woo-esque claims made about how Terri Schiavo could have a miraculous recovery.

The Woo Factor

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And let's not get into the unscientific, woo-esque claims made about how Terri Schiavo could have a miraculous recovery.

The deathbots love to tell us that Terri was "brain dead" (often expressed in very unflattering terms). But then at the same time, they claim that she "wanted" to be released from her pain and misery. As she was being murdered, they had the gall to tell us that she was actually "euphoric" as a result of having every cell in her body screaming out for hydration.

What no deathbot has EVER been able to answer is HOW, if Terri's brain injuries were as advanced as they claimed, did she experience pain, anguish and euphoria? If the brain injury was that advanced than these feelings would be IMPOSSIBLE and, by the same token, if she WAS able to experience these things, it is axiomatic that the extent of her brain injury was nowhere near as significant as they believed.

They can't have it both ways.

Three years ago today...

Pat Mahoney and his group left the Pinellas Park vigil to try to get something done in Tallahassee and Washington DC, but the fix was in and time was running out. I would have copied more of the article, but we can only excerpt from this site.

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TALLAHASSEE, Florida (CNN) -- With their court battles apparently exhausted, supporters of Terri Schiavo's parents said Sunday that they would take their efforts to Washington on Monday.

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Demonstrators on both sides of the debate shout and hold signs outside the hospice Sunday.

The Rev. Patrick Mahoney, a conservative Christian activist who has become a prominent figure in the protests over Schiavo's case, said he will go to Washington to plead with congressional leaders and the Bush administration to enforce a subpoena issued March 18 by a House committee for the 41-year-old woman to appear before Congress.............

Backers of Schiavo's parents head to Washington

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This sad day three years ago was Easter Sunday at Pinellas Park. Monsignor Malanowsky had visited Terri and afterwards brought the message of Easter home to us at the vigil, with an outdoor Mass right there, reminding us the devil had been defeated and Our Lord wins. I was overcome with despair, but his words turned it around to resolve. God bless Monsignor Malanowsky.

Earlier, I had been sitting alone in the grass, dejected, drained of energy, and meditating, did not hear the approach of one of the media types. He simply reached over, put some candies in my hand, and slipped away. Decent media types were there and they understood what was happening, but we can bet much of what they would say got no further than that spot. Their superiors would drop it to the cutting room floor and stomp on it.

I actually witnessed this up close in France a decade ago, not yet realizing what I was seeing. Our doctor friend visiting our dying friend with us saw what was happening and pointed it out to us, how they increased the morphine drip. We went to grab a quick bite and when we got back our friend was already in the fridge.

Thread by wagglebee.

The question of the use of deep sedation in the Netherlands as the alternative form of euthanasia is an important question.

In the case of deep sedation, a person is usually sedated and then fluids and food are withdrawn, resulting in an intentional death by dehydration or "slow euthanasia."

Intentionally killing someone by injection (or as Dignitas Clinic in Switzerland now does, with a plastic bag and helium) usually takes several minutes and usually not more than one hour.........

Deep Sedation is Often "Slow Euthanasia"

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"The View' to a kill....

Whoopie, and jump for Joy and hit the Jack-road. It is the death lovers in a thread by wagglebee.

New York, NY (LifeNews.com) -- Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar, longtime hosts of the chatty television program "The View," praised Jack Kevorkian in a recent episode. Following news that Kevorkian has planned a Congressional bid, they praised him for killing more than 130 people in assisted suicides and murdering a disabled patient.

Kevorkian, a convicted murderer and assisted suicide crusader, made his candidacy for a Detroit-area Congressional seat official on Monday.....

"The View" Hosts Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar Defend Jack Kevorkian's Murder, Suicides

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A propensity becomes a pleasure, then a habit, then an obsession, then its' self-destruction. Thread by wagglebee on an addiction...

The culture of death is like heroin: Once you start to mainline, it is never enough.

Consider the experience of the Netherlands. When euthanasia was quasi-legalized there by court order in 1973, access to mercy killing and assisted suicide were supposed to be limited to the very few. The killing would all be governed by euthanasia guidelines that, the Dutch people were assured, would protect against abuse. These included repeated requests, a lingering desire for death, second medical opinions, and a requirement that euthanasia was the only way to eliminate severe pain or suffering...........

The Culture of Death is Heroin

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