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

Life News ^ | 3/6/08 | Steven Ertelt

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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

[Dante3]

Exactly.

There have been misdiagnoses of "brain dead" as Zack Dunlap's case illustrated. Yet in Terri's case even other medical opinion was prohibited.

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And they love to talk about her autopsy reports, but they are unable to comprehend that thirteen days without a drop of water will certainly affect brain cells.

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[Lesforlife]

NOT DEAD YET MEMBER FOR TERRI

[Lesforlife]

EVIL IN OUR MIDST

[Lesforlife]

[Dante3]

Yes.

[floriduh voter]

bttt. One of Not Dead Yet’s members who demonstrated on Easter Sunday for Terri at the vigil has a great you tube site. I think his name is Angelo.

[floriduh voter]

You could have the JUDGES WHO EXECUTED TERRI HEPPED UP ON STEROIDS AND THEY WOULDN’T BE CALLED BEFORE CONGRESS. Judges have immunity from all kinds of felonies and transgressions. However, once they leave this earth, their immunity will expire.

[floriduh voter]

Thank you for the jpegs. I didn’t take pictures in 2005 but I made a few more signs. I stepped on a lot of signs too. Seems like when people had to leave, they’d leave their signs in stacks. Those darn signs are slippery!

[floriduh voter]

3 of a kind was one of the best signs. Now OJ’s in trouble in Vegas, one of Mikey’s favorite towns.

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Haleigh Poutre update...

DSS continues to take heat.

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It is no longer open to debate: the state Department of Social Services is a dysfunctional agency whose collective actions and systemic negligence are intolerable and border on criminal.

The recent case involving the 7-year-old Middleboro boy who was beaten and burned by someone is just the latest fiasco that has DSS officials admitting they made errors.

DSS visited the Middleboro family several times over the past few months but never checked the boy for burns on his genitals that school officials discovered or for welts on his back from being beaten with a belt. The agency also conceded the man charged with the abuse, David Privette, had a drug conviction as well as a conviction for assault on a police officer.

DSS counseled the mother and her boyfriend against corporal punishment but, in the very accurate assessment of Middleboro Police Chief Gary Russell, "this little boy was sent home to be tortured for another 13 days."

Rebecca Riley of Hull died in 2006 from an overdose of medications, which prosecutors charge was an intentional act by her parents who are awaiting trial on murder. There also were bruises on Rebecca's body, including on her thighs.

But DSS had visited the family following allegations of abuse and never found a problem despite Rebecca's father awaiting trial at the time for rape of a minor.

Yeah, we missed the boat on that one, DSS said after Rebecca's death.

Haleigh Poutre, Aidyn Hudson, Dontel Jeffers, the Warren, Mass., home where 10 children were beaten and sexually abused for a decade; the list isn't endless but it is maddening and, when one thinks about the pain and suffering inflicted on helpless children, heart-wrenching.

DSS' actions in the Riley and Poutre cases triggered a legislative investigation and recommendations. Among those was the recently passed bill that allows DSS to collect and maintain information on unsubstantiated reports of child abuse and neglect to assist in future risk and safety assessments of children and families.

But admitting problems after the fact is no longer good enough. Children are dying and being maimed for life because of - take your pick - budgetary underfunding, politicized administration, inept training and overwhelmed case workers.

Money doesn't appear to be a problem. Last year, DSS officials returned $24 million in unspent funds.

Gov. Deval Patrick replaced embattled commissioner Harry Spence with his own man, Angelo McClain, a former DSS worker, after the Rebecca Riley case so there's new administration, yet the same problems exist.

More than one-third of case workers handle more than the 18-case limit and nearly 75 percent oversee in excess of the 15-case standard. A DSS decision made this week to hire 80 to 100 additional social workers will bring the average case load down to 17, a number that's still too high, but it's a start.

If it takes more money to hire more workers, do it. The time to ponder is over. Action is essential before the next headline that reads about a dead child who had been abused.

Sorry doesn't cut it anymore.

Editorial: 'Sorry' doesn't protect children

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Hussain and Terri...

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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Barack Obama made headlines last month for flip-flopping on whether or not the federal government should have helped Terri Schiavo's family to save her life. Now, Obama is coming under fire from liberal columnist Nat Henthoff for saying he should have opposed the bill allowing the Schindler family to help their beloved daughter.

Terri is the disabled Florida woman whose husband won the legal right to starve her to death.

In March 2005, just weeks before Terri died from a painful 13-day starvation and dehydration death, Congress approved legislation allowing her family to take its case from state courts to federal courts in an effort to stop the euthanasia from proceeding.

The Senate unanimously approved a compromise bill but Obama said he should have stood up against the life-saving legislation.

“It wasn't something I was comfortable with, but it was not something that I stood on the floor and stopped,” Obama said. “And I think that was a mistake."

Henthoff takes Senator Obama to task for the flip-flop in a column published in the magazine Forward.

He called Obama's decision to flip-flop an "irresponsible robot-like judgment " not based on the facts of the situation Congress considered.

"He should be proud of the Senate vote he now recants--and learn a lot more about the disabled," Henthoff wrote.............

Liberal Columnist Nat Henthoff Blasts Barack Obama on Terri Schiavo Flip-Flop

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Three years ago today...

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"She's still communicating, she's still responding. She's emaciated, but she's responsive," Bob Schindler, Terri’s father, told reporters after a morning visit with his daughter, saying that she showed facial expressions when he hugged and kissed her. "Don't give up on her. We haven't given up on her, and she hasn't given up on us."

Bob Schindler’s comments came just a day after the Schindler family lawyer, David Gibbs III, said publicly that the 41-year-old disabled woman has passed the point where “physically she would be able to recover.”

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Terri is “fighting like hell to live and she's begging for help. ... She has just incredible strength to live,” Mr. Schindler said. Outside of Terri’s hospice, nearly 100 protestors stood their ground. Several, however, made their way to the nation’s Capitol to press the President and Congress to intervene with police order or any other viable action....

DonÂ’t Give Up on Schiavo, says Parent

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Bumping off Mom and Pop...

Story of someone urging croaking the old and infirm as if it were a new thing, as if the devil just whispered this secret into his ear. Thread by chessplayer with thanks to TheSarce for the ping.

A senior Church of Scotland minister has questioned the wisdom of spending large amounts of money keeping older people alive. The Reverend Maxwell Craig, 76, feels funding could be better spent helping the young stay out of trouble...

Should old die for sake of young?

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A senior Church of Scotland minister has questioned the wisdom of spending large amounts of money keeping older people alive.

It should also be noted that estimates range as high as a half a million dollars to have a kid and support them through college, perhaps we should just kill them and save money. What about the multi-millionaires who marry the trophy wives and then divorce them when their looks start catching up with their age, why not just kill them and save the settlement money?

I guess that's the "final solution" -- whenever someone is costing more than they are benefitting you, you should just be permitted to kill them.

[Lesforlife]

He must be studying America’s original death monger, “Duty to Die”
Dick Lamm, former Governor of Colorado.

From the NY Times: “Elderly people who are terminally ill have a ‘’duty to die and get out of the way’’ instead of trying to prolong their lives by artificial means, Gov. Richard D. Lamm of Colorado said Tuesday.

People who die without having life artificially extended are similar to ‘’leaves falling off a tree and forming humus for the other plants to grow up,’’ the Governor told a meeting of the Colorado Health Lawyers Association at St. Joseph’s Hospital.

‘’You’ve got a duty to die and get out of the way,’’ said the 48-year-old Governor. ‘’Let the other society, our kids, build a reasonable life.’’

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‘’You’ve got a duty to die and get out of the way,’’ said the 48-year-old Governor. ‘’Let the other society, our kids, build a reasonable life.’’

Let Lamm be the first to go. Let's see him demonstrate the courage of his convictions by offing himself.

What' s that? Won't do it? Ah, I see, typical 'Rat, "thee must die, but not I".

[Lesforlife]

These wonderful young men hoped to visit Terri with flowers and give her a surreptitious sip of water, hiding below the specially wrapped stems:

[Lesforlife]

Sadly, they were met by the Pinellas Park NAZI GOON SQUAD!