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

Life News ^ | 3/31/08 | Steven Ertelt

[wagglebee]

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

[Twink]

Thanks.

[BykrBayb]

Thanks for that link. The same person has this video of Lauren’s Dad on Hannity & Colmes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5i8mLlgLsk .

The video of Lauren interacting with her caretakers has the usual “Ew, kill it” comments from the pea-brains. I’m glad we don’t have very many of them since the Bug Zapper Thread.

[8mmMauser]

With Haleigh as with others we chronicle, we started at the time it was unfolding and kept up posting every bit of information we could get in our hands. At the time the prognosis for Haleigh was poor. DSS was anxious to get on with killing her, having her already declared hopeless. We missed few if any bits of news to help keep this atrocity in the public eye. As it turns out the public spotlight saved her life and put the finger on DSS (Social Services) and maybe we helped a little for her and for others in the future.

[8mmMauser]

Thanks, Leslie, for the background on that YouTube of Lauren. Truth is a bitter enemy of the dark forces gleeful over death. They fought to keep us from seeing it, hardly any different from the pro-aborts who fight to keep truth from their victims.

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LET LAUREN LIVE ALERT !!!!

Great News - Lauren's video resurfaces!

Lauren Richardson's father Randy had been thwarted
in his efforts to save his daughter by a court order
forbidding the youtube video of Lauren interacting with
her dog and friends.

The video clearly shows that Lauren is NOT in a persistent
vegetative state, which her mother Edith is claiming.

Edith has custody of Lauren's baby girl and has never allowed
them to visit.

What kind of grandmother would be so unkind to her daughter,
as to keep her from her baby and try to have her starved?

PERHAPS THIS MOTHER'S DAY WOULD BE A GREAT DAY TO MAKE
AMENDS, Edith !!!!

Posted by Leslie at 1:09 PM

LET LAUREN LIVE ALERT !!!!

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[8mmMauser]

On the same site as above...

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PLEADING TO ABORT AND PLEADING TO
REMOVE A DAUGHTER'S FEEDING TUBE?

Do we have a common theme in Edith Tower's
world view?



In this Youtube video, Lauren's father, Randy
Richardson, explains his former wife, Edith's
role in Lauren's current state of limbo.

One would think her former pro-death proclivities
would disqualify her from having Lauren's best
interests at heart.

One would be wrong!

To quote Pastor Bob Enyart, "It's no longer a justice system,
it's just a system!"

Posted by Leslie at 10:38 PM

PLEADING TO ABORT AND PLEADING TO REMOVE A DAUGHTER'S FEEDING TUBE?

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[8mmMauser]

A Bishop does the right thing. Consider the event and the typical actions of the mass killers we are supposed to approve. And this is different from the atrocities under Hitler's reign?? Thread by wagglebee.

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DETROIT, May 1, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A funeral Mass burial for eighteen unborn babies will be offered this Saturday, May 3, by Bishop John Quinn of Detroit.  The remains of their bodies were discovered in dumpsters at the Woman Care abortion clinic on Southfield Road in Lathrup Village, Michigan which is operated by abortionist Alberto Hodari.

Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, called upon all of the nation's Catholic priests today to offer a Mass within the next few days for the "Hodari babies."  The pro-life group Citizens for a Pro-life Society headed by Monica Migliorino Miller discovered the bodies in the dumpster and brought the matter to the attention of the police.

Unbelievably, Miller was billed $1,100 by Michigan's Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) for the removal of the evidence from her home. In the meantime, the abortionist has himself escaped without any significant punishment. (see coverage:  http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/mar/08032705.html )

Detroit Bishop to Offer a Funeral Mass for Eighteen Aborted Babies

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In Missouri, one can get a new license plate...

Thread by wagglebee.

Jefferson City, MO (LifeNews.com) -- After a long and successful legal battle, Missouri residents are now able to support adoption efforts with the purchase of a Choose Life license plate. Plate supporters unveiled the artwork for the plate in a capital reception surrounding by leaders of pro-life groups and state legislators....

Missouri Choose Life License Plate Unveiled, Available for Purchase Statewide

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[floriduh voter]

DEATH CULTIES ARE SO AFRAID OF WHEELCHAIRS AND BEDS. For gosh sakes, even some of them sleep in beds (except their vampires who sleep during the day in coffins).

Lauren can be in a wheelchair or a bed and those who are sickened when they see a disabled person in a bed, they should put pictures of themselves first thing in the morning on the internet. I'd bet my rebate check that they look a lot worse than Lauren does in the youtube video. lol

[floriduh voter]

Saddened? Greer’s buddy RONNIE DUNCAN is not running for re-election to the Pinellas Cty Commission. He’s leaving in disgrace, another RINO who got caught. One by one Florida rinos are calling it a day. Pinellas Cty is now democrat but used to be mostly republican. The liberal rag never mentions how many pubbies in Pinellas left the party and are now indies. bye, bye, Lisa and bye, bye, Ronnie. Being a friend of judge greer is a metaphoric kiss of death. Being a ward of judge greer may be a genuine kiss of death.

[floriduh voter]

Saddened? Greer’s buddy RONNIE DUNCAN is not running for re-election to the Pinellas Cty Commission. He’s leaving in disgrace, another RINO who got caught. One by one Florida rinos are calling it a day. Pinellas Cty is now democrat but used to be mostly republican. The liberal rag never mentions how many pubbies in Pinellas left the party and are now indies. bye, bye, Lisa and bye, bye, Ronnie. Being a friend of judge greer is a metaphoric kiss of death. Being a ward of judge greer may be a genuine kiss of death.

[floriduh voter]

Saddened? Greer’s buddy RONNIE DUNCAN is not running for re-election to the Pinellas Cty Commission. He’s leaving in disgrace, another RINO who got caught. One by one Florida rinos are calling it a day. Pinellas Cty is now democrat but used to be mostly republican. The liberal rag never mentions how many pubbies in Pinellas left the party and are now indies. bye, bye, Lisa and bye, bye, Ronnie. Being a friend of judge greer is a metaphoric kiss of death. Being a ward of judge greer may be a genuine kiss of death.

[floriduh voter]

Saddened? Greer’s buddy RONNIE DUNCAN is not running for re-election to the Pinellas Cty Commission. He’s leaving in disgrace, another RINO who got caught. One by one Florida rinos are calling it a day. Pinellas Cty is now democrat but used to be mostly republican. The liberal rag never mentions how many pubbies in Pinellas left the party and are now indies. bye, bye, Lisa and bye, bye, Ronnie. Being a friend of judge greer is a metaphoric kiss of death. Being a ward of judge greer may be a genuine kiss of death.

[floriduh voter]

Saddened? Greer’s buddy RONNIE DUNCAN is not running for re-election to the Pinellas Cty Commission. He’s leaving in disgrace, another RINO who got caught. One by one Florida rinos are calling it a day. Pinellas Cty is now democrat but used to be mostly republican. The liberal rag never mentions how many pubbies in Pinellas left the party and are now indies. bye, bye, Lisa and bye, bye, Ronnie. Being a friend of judge greer is a metaphoric kiss of death. Being a ward of judge greer may be a genuine kiss of death.

[floriduh voter]

Saddened? Greer’s buddy RONNIE DUNCAN is not running for re-election to the Pinellas Cty Commission. He’s leaving in disgrace, another RINO who got caught. One by one Florida rinos are calling it a day. Pinellas Cty is now democrat but used to be mostly republican. The liberal rag never mentions how many pubbies in Pinellas left the party and are now indies. bye, bye, Lisa and bye, bye, Ronnie. Being a friend of judge greer is a metaphoric kiss of death. Being a ward of judge greer may be a genuine kiss of death.

[floriduh voter]

My PC got carried away... consider the duplicates BTTT for Lauren Richardson.

[8mmMauser]

This is a long post but poignant enough I thought it better to copy the whole thing:

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by Jane St. Clair
Author of Walk Me to Midnight,

People in favor of assisted suicide pose four compelling arguments:

1. Compassion - Assisted suicide is a matter of compassion. No one should suffer needlessly when a doctor's injection ends it quickly.
   
2. Dignity - Euthanasia is necessary to preserve the dignity of a dying person.
   
3. Better good of society - End-of-life care is expensive and drains the health care system. Sometimes we have to make hard choices for the greater good.
   
4. Checks and Balances - Euthanasia can be carefully controlled through a system of checks and balances.

These four arguments are hard to refute, which is why the Nazi leadership could present them so effectively in the era before World War II.

These four arguments enabled Adolph Hitler and his followers to convince German doctors to perform euthanasia on first the terminally ill, then retarded and deformed babies, then institutionalized children, and then insane, retarded, sick and otherwise incapacitated adults.

The Argument for Compassion

Just as today's filmmakers produce books and movies like "Million Dollar Baby," "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," "Whose Life Is It Anyway?" and a multitude of TV shows with similar plots, Nazi filmmakers and writers did the same.

"I Accuse" remains a powerfully emotional German movie from the era. It tells the story of a doctor whose wife is terminally ill. As she cries in pain and begs him to end her life, he tearfully gives her a lethal injection. When he goes on trial for her murder, he wins over the jury for an acquittal, after he says, "Would you, if you were a cripple, want to vegetate forever?"

Dr. Karl Brandt, who was Hitler's personal physician, explained himself like this:

"The underlying motive was the desire to help individuals who could not help themselves and were thus prolonging their lives in torment. To quote Hippocrates today is to proclaim that invalids and persons in great pain should never be given poison. But any modern doctor who makes so rhetorical a declaration without qualification is a liar or hypocrite ... I never intended anything more or believed I was doing anything but abbreviating the tortured existence of such unhappy creatures."

The compelling argument for compassion appeared in works of literature, scholarly journals, newspapers, and books, just as it does today.

The Argument for Human Dignity

Psychiatrist Dr. Alfred Hoche and attorney Karl Binding wrote a groundbreaking book in 1920 called, "The Permission to Destroy Life Unworthy of Life." The Nazis used this work over and over to convince doctors that killing is a form of healing. The two authors argued that when people become terminally ill, hopelessly insane or mentally handicapped, they become "empty shells of human beings" who no longer have the dignity of human beings. They are "life unworthy of life" and require "death assistance" from doctors.

Dr. Hoche and Binding were among the first to develop the concept of "brain dead" or "mental death," as they called it. Since "brain dead" patients cannot decide to end their lives, their doctors must decide for them. Destroying "life unworthy of life" is "the work of healing" and "such killing is compassionate and consistent with medical ethics."

Little Gerhard Kretschmar, born blind, missing an arm and a leg and seemingly retarded, was the first German child to be euthanized. His parents wrote to Hitler and asked him to end the child's life. Dr. Brandt killed the five-month-old baby himself, and the story circulated Germany as an act of compassion that relieved his parent's suffering.

Similar arguments circulated today when the case of Terri Schiavo was being debated.

For the Greater Good of Society

The Nazi propagandists used medical metaphors to convince the medical establishment that euthanasia helped society. The argument was that just as a doctor has to remove a cancerous tumor or inflamed appendix to keep a patient alive, so doctors have to remove those drains on society in order for it to survive.

Here's Dr. Hoche again:

The state organism is a whole with its own laws and rights, much like the self-contained organism, which, in the interest of the welfare of the whole, as we doctors know, must abandon and reject parts or particles that have become worthless or dangerous.

Arguments made today in Europe and the United States go like this: As the cost of health care skyrockets, the medical establishment must ration it to those who can benefit from it the most.

Checks and Balances

Assisted suicide is now legal in Oregon and the Netherlands, but you require a panel of doctors and experts to "sign off" on each case before any doctor can assist a suicide. The Nazis did the same thing.

Dr. Brandt wrote: "We are stern on constructing a careful medical sequence of evaluation before any patient is put to death." He and others devised a system that required a doctor, a lawyer, and a psychiatrist to review each case file and make sure death was "compassionate and consistent with medical ethics." The panel of three had to make a unanimous decision after reading each file. A plus mark (+) meant death; a minus mark (-) meant life, and a question mark (?) meant postponement.

The Death with Dignity Act in Oregon requires the okay of an attending and consulting physician and in some cases, a psychological evaluation. The Netherlands law requires that oversight of the suicide be provided by three experts: a legal specialist, a physician and an expert on ethical or philosophical issues.

Nazi doctors assured themselves that they could select the proper candidates "with 100% certainty" because their check and balance system was foolproof.

What Happened with Legal Euthanasia in Nazi Germany?

The terminally ill and very elderly were among the first to die. Nursing homes became "Hungerhauser" or starvation houses for the elderly, where they were neglected and given no food.

Also among the first to die were deformed and mentally handicapped infants and children under three. The Nazis gradually moved the age up to 16 years old. At first these were children in institutions, later the Nazis took them from their parents on various pretenses such as a child's "need for surgery." The children drank tea laced with luminal and went into fatal comas. However, to better hide what they were doing, doctors and nurses simply starved "the cases with the plus marks" and then cremated the bodies. Medical personnel told themselves that by allowing children to starve, they were only letting "nature take its course." By 1941, over 5,000 children were dead.

The T4 Program involved killing adults in institutions for the mentally retarded, insane, criminally insane, deaf, epileptic, paralyzed and senile. The Nazis were particularly interested in killing young, physically healthy people who were facing a lifetime of expensive care. People rode buses with blacked-out windows to one of six centers, where they died in gas chambers. At Nuremberg, nurses told accusers that they struggled with the procedures, but they genuinely believed they were relieving patients of suffering.

By 1945, the Nazis had killed over 200,000 people in their euthanasia program and went on to kill over six million. The grim process actually started a few decades before when well-meaning educated people argued for compassion, dignity, careful selection, and the highest good for all.

Today doctors in the Netherlands have already moved from assisted suicide of the terminally ill to the euthanasia of seriously sick infants.

Hitler, the Nazis and Assisted Suicide

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

[8mmMauser]

Florida follies and rino wimps...

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"People pushing this legislation are pushing it on the merits, not to demonstrate we still have muscle," said James A. Smith, the executive editor of the Florida Baptist Witness, who watched the debates in the Legislature last week. "We passionately believe in protecting unborn children and we passionately believe that evolutionary dogma shouldn't reign in our schools."

But others say the push violates Republican principles and taints the Legislature as a vehicle for ideological crusades.

"I think these are things that even have Republicans scratching their heads and saying, 'How many times are things like this going to be on our agenda?'" said Sen. Jim King, R-Jacksonville. "One of the underlying axioms of this has been the mantra of the Republican Party for the last two decades, 'Less government and more freedom.' People look at some of the things we're doing and say this flies right in the face of that."

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And the Senate approved a $60 fine on so-called "Truck Nutz," an ornament for vehicles that is a large model of testicles. The House did not go along with the idea, which King said would create "bumper police."

~Snip~

Smith said that moderate Republicans -- dubbed RINOs, for "Republican in Name Only" -- who voted against the abortion and evolution bills would have to be defeated by social conservatives to win future legislative battles.

"Until one of these RINO Republicans gets taken out, there's not going to be much reason from them to believe there's any accountability to be feared for voting against religious conservatives," Smith said. "Whether or not religious conservatives are not as influential as they were once believed to be kind of remains to be seen."

King, who has been vilified by conservatives for leading moderate Republican opposition in the Schiavo case and abortion issues, said the possibility of a further push to the right among lawmakers is possible........

Conservatives' issues roiled, then fizzled

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[8mmMauser]

Me, I don't believe in arguing with the devil or wrestling with pigs and Singer and allies are both...

Thread by wagglebee.

A panel discussion on one of society's most controversial issues -- abortion -- took place Thursday at Princeton University.

Seven panelists -- including Princeton's own professors Peter Singer, Don Marquis, Elizabeth Harman and Robert George -- offered wide-ranging views on the topic "Is It Wrong To End Early Human Life?"

Still, as panelist Jeff McMahan of Rutgers University pointed out, the debate over whether it is wrong to end early human rights could be simplified dramatically.

"I've only heard two answers to the question thus far," McMahan said midway through the discussion. "Yes, and no."..

Scholars debate abortion issues

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[8mmMauser]

I can't help but smile when I come across the name of our new Dr. King. She is always hard at work for pro-life. Thread by wagglebee.

OTTAWA, May 2, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Thousands of students and adults are gearing up for the much anticipated March for Life 2008, set to rock the national capital next Thursday, May 8. Meanwhile, March for Life activities have already begun around the nation. In Regina Saskatchewan the pro-life March is underway today and the March in Edmonton and Winnipeg are set for Sunday.

African-Americans have brought a new vitality to the pro-life movement in the United States as they have seen the fight for the right to life as the greatest human rights struggle of the 21st century. Alveda King, with all the fire and stamina of her late uncle Martin Luther King Jr., has rallied thousands to speak out, to march, to lobby and to pray that unborn children may be recognized in law as human beings and given full legal protection....

Alveda King, Niece of Great Civil Rights Leader, to Kick off Canada's National March for Life May 8

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[8mmMauser]

Can I believe my eyes? Dare I?

Thread by wagglebee.

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FT. WORTH, Texas, May 3 /Christian Newswire/ -- The United Methodist General Conference, the Church's governing body that meets every 4 years, overwhelmingly adopted several petitions affirming the sanctity of life during its quadrennial meeting in Fort Worth.

Conference delegates voted to:

• "Affirm and encourage the Church to assist the ministry of crisis pregnancy centers and pregnancy resource centers that compassionately help women find feasible alternatives to abortion."

• "Respect the sacredness of the life and well-being of the mother and the unborn child."

• Support for adult "notification and consent" when a minor is seeking an abortion.

• "Reject euthanasia and pressure upon the dying to end their lives."

• Delete language from a previous United Methodist statement that had been used to support abortion as a means of back-up birth control.

• Decrying the international problem of gender-selective abortions, while describing abortion as "violent" and opposing "trivial reasons" for abortion......

United Methodist General Conference Takes Steps to Affirm Life

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