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

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PRAYERS FOR AN AILING BUT DEDICATED TERRI WARRIOR!!

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We think often about Dominique. She is a hallmark of courage, and an example of how we should live. We look to saints for the inspiration she radiates. An amazing thing is how one can pose any question at all to her and she has the precise answer from the Bible to quote for it.

She carried me a number of times when I was too week to stand.

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From the Foundation email...

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Please remember to tune into our new program America's Lifeline on Talk Radio 860 WGUL this Saturday, March 29, at 3pm, ET. America’s Lifeline is also streamed worldwide via the internet at Talk Radio 860 WGUL. For those outside the Tampa area, simply log onto terrisfight.org and click on the “listen live” button.

This Saturday, just two days before the third anniversary of the death of Terri Schiavo, we will have a very special Amercia’s Lifeline. Our guests will be childhood friends of Terri’s who will talk about their close friendship with her and what it was like growing up with the girl who eventually made a worldwide impact. We will also share a very moving song dedicated to Terri that was recently played at a music festival in Thiene , Italy .

So join us this Saturday at 3pm, ET on Talk Radio 860 WGUL for America’s Lifeline! It will be a very memorable program as we celebrate the life and legacy of Terri Schindler Schiavo.

America's Lifeline is hosted by Sheila Liaugminas, former Time magazine reporter and a previous host on the popular radio show The Right Questions and Issues and Answers on Relevant Radio. The program will be co-hosted by Bobby Schindler and Suzanne Vitadamo, directors of Terri’s Foundation and brother and sister of Terri Schiavo.

Remember, we will be taking your phone calls live on the air!  So call 877-969-8600.

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Here is their website:

The Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation

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Haleigh Poutre update...Haleigh's Amendment...

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I'd like to thank Sen. Scott Brown, R-Wrentham, for his leadership in addressing a serious issue in the aftermath of a terrible tragedy.

In early 2007, following the controversy of the Haleigh Poutre case, I contacted his office to ask that he file legislation to prevent those who had injured a person from serving as that person's health care proxy.

The Poutre case highlighted this important issue because the foster father of the girl was accused of inflicting the injuries that incapacitated her, and subsequently started legal action to be allowed to make health care decisions for her.

His interest was suspected to be in keeping Haleigh alive to avoid a murder charge, but in other circumstances an abuser might want to "finish the job" by having the health care facility withdraw treatments.

In short, it is axiomatic that health care professionals cannot trust that an abuser would consider his or her victim's interests or desires as paramount...........

Letter: Haleigh's Amendment

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Attention shifts to Pennsylvania...

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Philadelphia, Mar 29, 2008 / 01:25 am (CNA).- As the last major primary state for the Democratic Party presidential contest and a contested state in the general election, Pennsylvania Catholics could play a key role in determining the presidential race. 

The Bulletin reports that there are nearly 3.8 million Catholics in the state, 31 percent of the total population. 

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“What rights have any value if you do not have the right to life?\" she asked. \"Only if you are 100 percent pro-life will I look to other issues.\"

Coll referenced Senator Obama’s regrets about supporting the Senate’s move to save the life of Terry Schiavo, the disabled woman whose feeding tube was removed by court order. She died of dehydration soon afterward................

Pennsylvania Catholics positioned to swing presidential election

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The Obama Nation vs. Terri's Legacy...

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In none of the endless presidential candidates' debates has there been a meaningful discussion of the rights of disabled Americans. However, in the Feb. 26 debate in Cleveland, Barack Obama casually and ignorantly revealed his misunderstanding of the basic issue in the highly visible and still-resonating official death sentence of a disabled woman, Terri Schiavo. I repeatedly have called her death the result of "the longest public execution in American history."

When moderator Tim Russert asked Hillary Clinton and Obama if "there are any words or votes that you'd like to take back ... in your careers in public service," Obama answered that in his first year in the Senate, he joined an agreement "that allowed Congress to interject itself (in the Schiavo case) into the decision-making process of the families."

Obama added: 'I think that was a mistake, and I think the American people understood that was a mistake. And as a constitutional law professor, I knew better."...................

Barack Obama vs. Terri Schiavo

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Catholics will be repelled by B.O...

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I don't want Senator Obama to win -- our political positions are too far apart -- but I do want both political parties to understand the Catholic voter.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Inside Catholic) - I am writing this unsolicited memo to help the Obama campaign understand the Catholic vote.

It has been the practice of Democratic presidential candidates, including former Vice President Al Gore and Sen. John Kerry, to enlist the help of well-known Catholic dissenters as advisers to their campaigns (no need to name names). As a result, the Democratic presidential candidates have failed to understand Catholic voters, much less connect with them.

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The candidate's decision in a televised debate to call his vote on Terri Schiavo a "mistake" turned off many sympathetic Catholic voters -- especially young people -- displaying an amazing lack of insight regarding the Catholic voter. Again, it suggests he is getting bad advice.

Senator Obama will have to stretch himself to reach Catholic voters, and should not deceive himself into thinking that he's a "natural" for them. He needs to be himself, act humbly toward social conservatives, and acknowledge the differences while looking for places where he can connect with them.

A Memo to the Obama Campaign

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Three years ago today...

From RenewAmerica:

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From Dan Rather's credible reporting about President Bush's National Guard service prior to the November 2004 election, to writing a prewritten story about Terri Schiavo's death, CBS has proved to be America's most credible news service.

Most Americans, by now, are familiar with the Terri Schiavo story.

The story of Terri is heart-breaking. In 1990, doctors claim Terri suffered a heart-attack causing her to collapse for minutes without oxygen getting to her brain. As a result, Terri has been perceived by many to be in a "permanent vegetative state."

For 15 years, Terri's husband Michael and her parents Bob and Mary Schindler have been involved in legal battles concerning Terri.

On March 18, 2005 Terri Schiavo's feeding tube, which sustained her life for 15 years, was removed. As of this writing, Terri Schiavo has been without her feeding tube for approximately 12 days...................

CBS News back in action!

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They never rest and never can we...

Thread by Grzegorz 246 with thanks to wagglebee and TheSarce for the ping.

Teenagers should be given the right to medically assisted suicide and the parents of terminally ill younger children should be able to choose euthanasia under proposals from members of Belgium's coalition government.

The plans to extend rules allowing doctors to perform euthanasia on terminally ill people suffering "constant and unbearable physical or psychological pain" comes amid heated Belgian debate on the issue......

Teens need right to 'medically assisted suicide'

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Stirring thread by paleorite with thanks for the ping to 668 - Neighbor of the Beast and wagglebee.

Feelings about Nancy Grace aside, this story of how an 11-year-old Wisconsin girl slipped into a diabetic coma and died because her parents sat around praying rather than seeking medical attention for her--as relatives had been begging them to do for weeks--is horrifying. Though the parents insist they don't regard themselves as religious, they also note that laying on of hands is their preferred method of healing in general.

With apologies to similar believers everywhere, my first reaction to this is, Wow, these people are some kind of crazy. My second reaction: time to consider a little court-negotiated sterilization.....

The Wages of Zealotry

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Pro-life progress in a thread by wagglebee...

......With news items like these over the last two weeks, it would be easy to be discouraged about the advancement of the right to life both here and abroad. Certainly, we all know that pro-abortion groups and their sympathizers need to have their reality checked but they would rather continue on their merry way denying the facts.

But for the rest of us who are not living in a warped fairy-tale, it’s clear that all of the pro-abortion policies in the world have not fixed any of the problems we face today............

The Wheels of Pro-Life Change on Abortion Turn Slowly, But Keep the Faith

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The death lovers must be saddened. Here we may find benefits in the umbilical cords without even having to butcher the little baby. Thread by wagglebee.

TAMPA, FL, March 27, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Targeted immune suppression using human umbilical cord blood cells may improve the pathology associated with Alzheimer's disease, a new study in a mouse model of this currently untreatable neurodegenerative condition reports. The study, led by researchers at the University of South Florida, is published online in the peer-reviewed journal Stem Cells and Development (http://www.liebertpub.com/scd).

Following a series of low-dose infusions of human umbilical cord blood cells into mice with Alzheimer's-like disease, the amount of amyloid-ß and ß-amyloid plaques - hallmarks of Alzheimer's pathology in the brain - was reduced 62 percent. Amyloid-ß induces an inflammatory response in the brain associated with the interaction of CD40 and CD40L, two pro-inflammatory molecules. Researchers also reported an astonishing 86-percent improvement in cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA), another hallmark of Alzheimer's disease. CAA compromises the integrity of the blood-brain barrier, disrupting normal trafficking of various molecules and cells from and to the brain and is believed to be the main culprit for the brain inflammation observed in Alzheimer's....

Umbilical Cord Blood Cell Therapy May Reduce Signs and Symptoms of Alzheimer's Disease

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THE APPLES HAVE FALLEN FAR FROM THE TREES 2 PEAS IN A POD = TWO BETRAYERS OF HIS FATHER'S LEGACY! Franky this week said his father was worse than Obama's Rev Wright and sorry senator Casey today endorsed Obama, betraying Governor Casey's pro-life legacy! SHAME!

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Someone needs to sign these guys up for this course!!

http://battleforcivilization.com/blog/

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Chuck Schumer planned the scheme to have so-called “pro-life” Dems run against Republicans so the Dems could control Congress, and it worked.

Voters are so naive.

That’s why I call talk shows and write editor’s letters to let as many people as I can, know what candidates stand for.

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Court turns thumbs down on the innocent life of Terri. Let her die.

All my life it was drummed into me we are a land of laws and we must obey, the presumption that the law is always right and just superseding reason. The courts show here how far we have come without even realizing it.

The law is the law, don't we know. Judges make the law and decide what the rest of us are to accept. Perhaps our Founding Fathers thought the Judiciary would be held in check by our system of balances, but not these days, the Judiciary is more equal than the the other balances.

Three years ago today, the atmosphere at Pinellas Park was solemn and hollow. Poor Terri had defied them all by proving to be incredibly healthy and strong, holding out for 12 days without a single drop of water, a feat few of us could muster, but she was weakening. Our hopes for her here on earth were dashed by the system of the courts, establishing for any still not realizing, they control, and if an innocent life may be sacrificed to prove it, well, it is the law.

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United States 11th Circuit Court of Appeals Reports

SCHIAVO EX REL. SCHINDLER v. SCHIAVO, 404 F.3d 1270 (11th Cir. 2005)

No. 05-11628.

March 30, 2005.

The Court having been polled at the request of one of the members of the Court and a majority of the Circuit Judges who are in regular active service not having voted in favor of it (Rule 35, Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure; Eleventh Circuit Rule 35-5), the Emergency Petition for Rehearing En Banc is

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United States 11th Circuit Court of Appeals Reports

SCHIAVO EX REL SCHINDLER v. SCHIAVO, 404 F.3d 1282 (11th Cir. 2005)

No. 05-11628.

March 30, 2005.

The petition for rehearing, to the extent it requests a rehearing by the panel, and the motion for an injunction pending appeal, are DENIED.

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United States 11th Circuit Court of Appeals Reports

SCHIAVO EX REL. SCHINDLER v. SCHIAVO, 403 F.3d 1223 (11th Cir. 2005)

No. 05-11556.

March 23, 2005. As Corrected March 25, 2005.

Plaintiffs have appealed the district court's denial of their motion for a temporary restraining order to require the defendants to transport Theresa Marie Schindler Schiavo to a hospital to reestablish nutrition and hydration and for any medical treatment necessary to sustain her life, and to require the state court judge defendant to rescind his February 25, 2005 order directing removal of nutrition and hydration from Schiavo and to restrain him from issuing any further orders that would discontinue nutrition and hydration.[fn1] After notice and a hearing, the district court entered a careful order which is attached as an Appendix to this opinion. Plaintiffs have also petitioned this Court to grant the same injunctive relief under the All Writs Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1651(a).

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United States 11th Circuit Court of Appeals Reports

SCHIAVO EX REL. SCHINDLER v. SCHIAVO, 403 F.3d 1289 (11th Cir. 2005)

No. 05-11628.

March 25, 2005.

Our previous decision in this case affirmed the district court's March 22, 2005 denial of the plaintiffs' motion for a temporary restraining order as to the claims raised in the five counts of the initial complaint filed in this case. Schiavo ex rel. Schindler v. Schiavo ex rel. Schiavo, 403 F.3d 1223, 2005 WL 648897 (11th Cir. Mar.23, 2005) (Schiavo I), stay denied, ___ U.S. ___, 125 S.Ct. 1692, ___ L.Ed.2d ___, 2005 WL 672685 (Mar. 24, 2005). After that appeal was taken, the plaintiffs filed an amended complaint on March 22, 2005, adding four more counts, and a second amended complaint on March 24, 2005, adding a fifth count.

 

United States 11th Circuit Court of Appeals Reports

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A bit less than three years ago, Pontius Pilate scrubbed his hands vigorously and issued "Move on, nothing to see here..."

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Gov. Jeb Bush, who requested an investigation after Schiavo's autopsy last month, said Thursday he considers the case closed.

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"Based on your conclusions, I will follow your recommendation that the inquiry by the state be closed," Bush said in a two-sentence response to McCabe. The governor is vacationing in Maine and couldn't be reached for further comment, said officials in his office......

Print story Subscribe to the Times No criminality in Schiavo collapse, prosecutor says

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Meanwhile in the serial killer department elsewhere, Dr. Death rejoices in the great help he got from the courts supporting his craft. Be careful, courts, killers like this one don't hold gratitude very high, and may forget how you helped him.

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/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Infamous euthanasia activist Dr. Jack Kevorkian has announced that he plans to run for U.S. Congress as an independent in Michigan’s 9th congressional district.

"We need some honesty and sincerity instead of corrupt government in Washington," Kevorkian told the Oakland Press, his local Michigan newspaper.

In order to be placed on the ballot, Kevorkian will need to obtain 3,000 signatures.

Nicknamed Doctor Death for his boast of helping at least 130 people - many of whom had no diagnosed physical illness, - to kill themselves, Kevorkian was released from jail last year after serving eight years of his 10-25 year sentence for the murder of 52-year-old Thomas Youk.

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When asked in the same interview about his views on the death of Terri Schiavo by starvation and dehydration, he responded by saying that he would have killed Terri had his husband asked him earlier. "After all that long period of time in a coma, I think she would qualify." ......

Doctor Death to run for U.S. Congress

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