Terri Schiavo's Family Calls for Observance of Terri's Day to Honor Disabled Woman

St. Petersburg, FL (LifeNews.com) -- Terri Schiavo's family and a leading pro-life group are calling on people to honor the disabled woman whose husband took her life in a painful euthanasia death. Together with Priests for Life, the Schindler family has established the observance of “Terri’s Day” each March 31.

That's the day Terri succumbed to a 13-day starvation and dehydration death at the hand of Michael Schiavo, her former husband who won a court order to take her life.

“This third anniversary should be an occasion for all of us to both remember the injustice done to Terri, and reach out to others with prayer and concrete action when they need the kind of help Terri needed," Terri's brother Bobby Schindler told LifeNews.com on Monday.

Suzanne Vitadamo, Terri’s sister, added that Terri's Day is also a way for her family to encourage others to take better care of the elderly and disabled.

“Our family continues to be consoled and uplifted by the many ways in which people honor my sister, learn from her story, and grow in compassion for all the disabled," she said.

During the days leading up to Terri's death, Father Frank Pavone of Priests for Life brought comfort and peace to the Schindler family.

Father Pavone was present for the final prayer Terri participated in before her death. He also saw the manipulative ways Michael tried to prevent the Schindler family from caring for her or being present with her during the starvation and dehydration.

“Terri’s death was not the end of her fight," he told LifeNews.com. "It was the beginning of a new chapter in the pro-life movement."

"I call upon all those who were moved by Terri’s death to continue their courageous activism in the cause of life, and never to be silent," he said.

Together, Priests for Life and the Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation encourage churches, families, organizations and individuals to observe Terri’s Day with prayers, memorial services, educational activities and community outreach.

Related web sites:
Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation - http://www.terrisfight.org
Priests for Life - http://www.priestsforlife.org

Haleigh Poutre update...

Because of the source I can only excerpt this news break.

Haleigh Poutre, a 14-year-old girl once diagnosed as being in an "irreversible vegetative state," has provided police with dramatic testimony about frequent use of corporal punishment during her childhood, but she has not given any specifics about what caused her to suffer a near-fatal head injury more than two years ago, according to two people with direct knowledge of her statements. more stories like this

Haleigh, who has spent the last two years at a pediatric rehabilitation hospital in Brighton, communicated with simple words and hand gestures in an interview last December. She also spelled out full sentences by pointing to letters of the alphabet on a board, reflecting the remarkable recovery of a girl who nearly was removed from life support by the state after doctors had declared her condition hopeless. She began to breathe on her own just as the state's highest court ruled that she should be allowed to die....

Girl gives dramatic details in abuse case

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"We will not be silent. We are your bad conscience. The White Rose will give you no rest."

Haleigh and Rebecca

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The Bay State came perilously close to flunking a federal watchdog group’s child protection study and it was only after several months of virtually knocking down the doors of DSS workers and local pols that its grade was raised to a D-, the study’s authors said yesterday.

Only nine states fared worse than Massachusetts in the study, titled “State Secrecy and Child Deaths in the U.S.,” which is scheduled to be released today.

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The study highlights Massachusetts as “crying out for reform,” noting the cases of: Haleigh Poutre, who was beaten into a coma while in foster care after DSS dismissed more than a dozen allegations of abuse; Rebecca Riley, whose parents are charged with manslaughter in connection with her allegedly prescription drug-related death at age 4 in Dec. 2006; and the Middleboro 7-year-old who was allegedly burned and beaten by his mother’s boyfriend despite several warning signs to DSS.

Nev Moore, a longtime DSS critic who has filed legislation to reform DSS, said the agency operates in a vacuum.

“They can’t keep investigating themselves, and that’s what’s happening,” she said. “You need external oversight.”

Bay State ’crying out for reform’

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I will buy nothing from eBy.

Haters on the left try their best to be hilarious but since words to them are mere tools, they have no clue as to the meaning of humor.

As Puffington Host puffs cheeky droolings over whatever is left of the GOP, (Anyway all that is left of GOP is left and not much right, IMO...) they just can't help invoking Terri's Legacy, no joke to them.

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Distractions

When the Terri Schiavo case came to prominence in 2005 there was some really bad news for the Busbaby Administration starting to come out regarding Iraq. Using Mrs. Schiavo as political cover, the Republican Party energized their base and created a major distraction in the media. Sen. Bill Frist of Tennessee, a doctor, used only a short video of Mrs. Schiavo to diagnose her as a cognizant woman who should not have her feeding tube removed.

At the same time, the so-called "Schiavo Memo" was leaked to the media. It was written by Brian Darling, the legal counsel to Florida Republican Sen. Mel Martinez. It suggested the Schiavo case offered "a great political issue" that would appeal to the party's core supporters and could be used against Sen. Bill Nelson because he had refused to co-sponsor Terri's law which was a bill that congress cooked up to try to use to circumvent the courts.

When the feeding tube was removed for the third and final time Mrs. Schiavo passed away. The autopsy on her brain showed that she had lived the last five years of her life in a persistent vegetative state. Frist's grandstanding medical diagnosis had been completely wrong. The Bushbaby, Brotherbush, Florida governor at the time, Darth Cheney nor Doc Frist ever bothered to apologize............

Learn From History or Repeat It

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Webster departs...

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TALLAHASSEE - With the clock winding down on the 2008 Legislature, the career of one of Central Florida's most enduring lawmakers is nearing its close.

Senate Majority Leader Daniel Webster, R-Winter Garden, is entering the final week of his last regular session, capping a 28-year trajectory that took him from back-bench nobody to Florida's first Republican House speaker in 122 years.

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"He's been the go-to guy for Central Florida as long as anyone can remember," said Crotty, who served with Webster in the House during the 1980s.

Webster also has steadily sought to limit abortions in Florida, while promoting what he terms a "life agenda." Through the years, he has battled lawmakers and the courts with bills restricting abortions for teens and was central in the Terri Schiavo end-of-life struggle in 2005 that divided the Legislature and Congress.........

Central Florida lawmaker Daniel Webster coy about plans as term limits end 28-year tenure

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The present tense for Sanger, Singer warbles.

(Oh, did I mention? Warble is another name for larvae stage of the bot fly...)

Thread by wagglebee.

Tempe, AZ (LifeNews.com) -- Arizona State University is coming under fire for inviting controversial infanticide advocate Peter Singer to speak on campus. The Princeton professor will reportedly receive $20,000 for the speech, where the audience will not be allowed to question him on his anti-newborn views.

Singer promoted the notion as early as 1984 that parents of disabled newborns be allowed to kill the baby shortly after birth. In some cases, he says newborns with disabilities should absolutely be killed....

Pro-Infanticide Professor Peter Singer Gets 20K for Arizona State Speech

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Sorry, Ruth, a Supreme ms-judgement on your part...

Thread by wagglebee.

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- April 18 marked the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court's ruling in Gonzales v. Carhart, in which it rejected legal challenges to the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003.

While opponents of the ban claimed numerous lawsuits would be brought forth to challenge the Supreme Court's ruling, thus far no challenges have been filed.

One of the four justices who dissented in the Gonzales ruling to uphold the ban, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, expressed her expectation of challenges.

She claimed they would "be mounted swiftly, to ward off serious, sometimes remediable harm, to women whose health would be endangered by the prohibition.".....

No Partial-Birth Lawsuits Shows Abortion Advocates Lied About Health Exception

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Today's Dr. King...

Thread by wagglebee.

ATLANTA, April 28 /Christian Newswire/ -- Dr. Alveda King, Pastoral Associate of Priests for Life and niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., today said that a new study released by Students for Life of America reinforces the call of black leaders to eliminate federal subsidies to Planned Parenthood.

"It's time to let freedom ring for the babies," said Dr. King. "The Students for Life report on Planned Parenthood's targeting of African Americans for abortion spells out why taxpayers should not be forced to contribute to that organization. The government should not be subsidizing racism, but that's exactly what it's doing through Planned Parenthood."......

Dr. Alveda King: Defund Planned Parenthood

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The autopsy on her brain showed that she had lived the last five years of her life in a persistent vegetative state.

No, the autopsy showed that her brain had been dehydrated in the two weeks preceding her death. The medical examiner (who supported her murder) even said that an autopsy cannot determine whether or not a person was in a persistent vegetative state, as that is a clinical diagnosis which must be made while the patient is alive.

Bill Frist "diagnosed" Terri as being aware the same way we all "diagnose" the talking heads on TV of being aware. By observing. Ironically, Terri proved that she was more aware than most of those talking heads, when she vocalized her horror at the news she was about to be tortured with a third round of starvation and dehydration. Most of the talking heads called that torture "euphoria." But you don't see them volunteering themselves for the experience. Maybe they're more cognizant than they'd like to admit.

What Terri’s murderers, their enablers and cheerleaders never grasped is that it DID NOT MATTER whether Terri was PVS or not. She DID NOT die from any terminal illness, she died because she was starved and dehydrated to death. It is irrelevant what anyone else thinks of someone’s conditions.

I think that Hillary Clinton is a rapist-enabling communist who looks like she was kicked in the face by a mule, but I still think she deserves food and water (though it should be served to her by a guard at a “Supermax” prison).

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