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While Barack Obama is disengaging himself from some of the sulfurously disuniting remarks of his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright, he has shown in a February debate with Hillary Clinton — his own disturbing ignorance of why disability-rights communities across the nation so vigorously protested the official starvation and dehydration of disabled Terri Schiavo. I described this as "the longest public execution in American History."
When moderator Tim Russert asked Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Obama if "there are any words or votes that you'd like to take back... in your careers in public service," Mr. 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." Mr. 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." When he was a professor of constitutional law, Mr. Obama probably instructed his students to research and know all the facts of a case.
The reason Congress asked the federal courts to review the Schiavo case was that the 41-year-old woman about to be dehydrated and starved to death was breathing normally on her own and was not terminal. There was medical evidence that she was responsive, not in a persistent vegetative state.................
Playing games with innocent life
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Terri Schindler-Schiavo, the brain damaged woman who died March 31 at a Florida Hospice as the result of a court order removing her feeding tube, was not in a persistent vegetative state and was not brain-dead, noted neurologist James M. Gebel Jr., MD, MS, FAHA has concluded.
The renowned neurologist who is president of the Kentucky and Southern Indiana Stroke Association and physician liaison at Jewish Hospital Emergency Stroke Center in Louisville, KY, has concluded that Terri Schiavo could have been cared for at home with some home health care assistance at modest to at most moderate expense which would not by any common sense standard be deemed economically burdensome. In a letter to the editor published on www.wftsradio.com , Dr. Gebel said that over the past several weeks, it has come to his attention that significant debate has developed regarding the Terri Schiavo case.
The 41-year-old woman sustained serious brain injuries in 1990 under suspicious circumstances at her home and died March 31, 13 days after her nutrition and hydration had been removed by court order following a petition to do so by her estranged husband and guardian, Michael Schiavo. Terri had not executed a living will at the time she was stricken and her husband maintained that she would not want to be kept alive by assisted feeding. He also maintained that she was in a persistent vegetative state with no cognitive function and no chance for recovery, a position disputed by her parents who unsuccessfully battled in court near 10 years to keep her alive.........................
The Terri Schiavo Case: A Catholic Neurologist's Perspective
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And ANYBODY with even a modicum of common sense understands that food and water ARE NOT LIFE SUPPORT.