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

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

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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

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As many Americans will die in abortuaries THIS YEAR than have died fighting in ALL the wars America has fought COMBINED.

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Yeah, McLame thinks that he and Crist can protect America. Crist wouldn’t even protect one woman in a hospital bed. And these RINOs think that they can secure the borders because they said they will.

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This is a strange case with strange connections. The family is represented by the team that defended Dr. Death.

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The condition of a 4-year-old Pace boy is the direct result of his brain disorder, not a case of felony neglect, say supporters of the boy’s mother.

“I can’t believe Florida courts would decide to allow Terry Schiavo to be starved and on the other hand, to prosecute a mother because her child has normal symptoms of the end-stage of a terminal disease,” Dianne Fitzgerald, founder of the National Lissencephaly Network, said Thursday.

Erin Brittany Markes, the boy’s 19-year-old mother, was jailed on $100,000 bond Friday on allegations that she withheld medical treatment from her son. Santa Rosa County Circuit Judge Ron Swanson ordered her release on Wednesday. She left under electronic monitoring that restricts her travel to within Santa Rosa and Escambia counties.

Markes’ son reportedly suffers from Miller-Dieker syndrome, a form of the rare genetic brain disorder lissencephaly, characterized by a smoothing of folds in the brain.

Authorities say the boy weighed only 10 pounds when he was hospitalized and had not received his seizure medication. His body temperature was 91.1 degrees and he suffered from bedsores.

Fitzgerald’s organization has referred Markes to Bill McHenry, an attorney at the Michigan-based law firm of Fieger, Fieger, Kenney, Johnson & Giroux P.C. The charity also is considering forming a legal defense fund for Markes.

The firm’s Geoffrey Fieger is the attorney who represented Dr. Jack Kevorkian in his doctor-assisted suicide trial.......................

Group: Brain disorder caused boyÂ’s condition

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Perspective from an unusual source, followed by unusual comments...

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Every time there's another landmark on the way to gay marriage, several people send me links and jubilant emails about it. They expect me to jump up and down and cheer about it, but I can barely register even polite interest.

It isn't that I don't want to be able to legally formalize a commitment to the woman of my choice. I want that more than anything else, as a matter of fact. But I've been paying enough attention to know that even if I were a man, I wouldn't have that option anymore.

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Even as the traditional expectations that used to go with marriage are dissolving, brand new ones are being invented. Nowadays, if your spouse is admitted to the hospital with brain damage caused by highly suspicious injuries, you can deny her medical care for years and then have her slowly starved to death. The alleged domineering patriarch of the 1950's did not imagine he had any right to do such a thing, and yet Democrats are attempting to pretend that being married doesn't mean fidelity, doesn't mean commitment, but does mean the right to inflict a slow and agonizing death. Andrew Sullivan actually complained that because he is gay, courts probably wouldn't recognize his "right" to have his partner starved to death. Isn't that terribly unfair?

Personally, for me the murder of Terri Schiavo was the end of my enthusiasm for gay marriage.

Brunette Republican Sex Kitten... Gay Marriage? What For?

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Truth about B.O., something not easy to hide...

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For a little over a year, Barack Obama has taken his message of hope to countless gymnasiums and scores of town halls across the country. And in doing so, Mr. Obama carefully constructed a politically-moderate image he hopes to ride to the front steps of the White House.

But a recent gaffe in which Mr. Obama described an unborn child as a "punishment," thus leaving open the suggestion he would condone the abortion of his unborn grandchild, has caused concerns there this moderate man is a liberal lawmaker.

Despite a relatively short career as an elected official, Mr. Obama was first elected to the Illinois State Senate in 1996, the presidential hopeful has built a political record that culminated with the National Journal rating him the most liberal U.S. senator in 2007. Mr. Obama, however, has focused his presidential campaign on the broader message of restoring trust in politics, thus permitting his liberal record on issues, such as abortion, to fly under the radar.

This, however, changed during a Lancaster town hall meeting this week where Mr. Obama discussed sex education.

"Look, I've got two daughters... nine years old and six years old. I'm going to teach them first of all about values and morals, but if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby," Mr. Obama stated. "I don't want them punished with an STD at the age of 16."

By describing an unborn child as a punishment, placing the child in the same category as an STD, Mr. Obama unleashed a tidal wave of pro-life anger and redirected attention to the Illinois senator's position on abortion.

"Our society would take a dangerous step backward from the Judeo-Christian belief that we are all created equal if we were to treat one class of humans - those born to teenagers - as a curse," argued Wendy Wright, president of Concerned Women for America.

Even more disturbing to Kathy Coll, president of the Pro-Life Coalition, is the fact Mr. Obama uttered such words after spending his campaign claiming to be a man of faith.

"What kind of faith prevents you from seeing an unborn child as a gift?" asked Mrs. Coll.

While in the U.S. Senate Mr. Obama voted against prohibitions on carrying a minor across state lines for an abortion and recently expressed regret over a vote to save the life of Terri Schiavo, a disabled Florida woman. Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, also pointed out Mr. Obama opposed healthcare for children born of botched abortions in while in the Illinois Senate.

?"In 2003... he led the fight to oppose a bill that would have mandated health care for a baby who survived an abortion," Mr. Donohue stated.

The gaffe could be significant to Mr. Obama because a number of Pennsylvania Democrats voting in the April 22 primary are Casey Democrats, those named after the state's late Gov. Robert Casey. The Casey Democrat is traditionally a blue collar Democrat, most likely Catholic, supportive of the right to life.

To conservatives, however, Mr. Obama's comments are a glimpse at Mr. Obama's true political colors.

"I maintain to you that when he goes off the prompter, this is exactly the way he looks at it: Punished with a baby. He's no different than half the other liberals out there," stated conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh on his radio program. "All during the abortion debate, pregnancy was a disease... It certainly wasn't about the glory of life."

Obama Speaks On Morals, Values And Daughters

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A downside of the used parts industry, when "oops" doesn't quite do it...

Thread by Red Badger with thanks to TheSarce for the ping...

Alex's liver went to a 52-year-old man. His pancreas to a 36-year-old woman. His kidneys went to two different men, one 46 and the other 64.

A month later, an autopsy revealed that Alex never had meningitis. He had a rare and fast-moving lymphoma cancer -- one that was now working its way through the bodies of four other people........

Teen Organ Donor's Gift Turns Tragic

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If i didn't know better I would think they had some sort of agenda...

Maybe I don't know better.

Thread by wagglebee.

NEW YORK, April 3, 2008 (c-fam.org)- A two-year old report has come to light that encourages foundations to fund religious organizations who agree to push the abortion agenda around the world. The report which was funded by the wealthy MacArthur and Ford Foundations, catalogues hundreds of religiously affiliated non-government organizations that are likely to include “sexual and reproductive health and rights” as part of their work.

“Religion and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: An Inventory of Organization, Scholars and Foundations,” issued by the Center for Health and Social Policy, argues that the world’s religions play an undeniable role in shaping attitudes toward "reproduction and sexuality" and can “be an important ally in the effort to advance sexual and reproductive health and rights (or, conversely, a key obstacle).”........

Wealthy Foundations Encouraged to Recruit and Fund Religious Groups to Push Abortion

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Andrew Sullivan actually complained that because he is gay, courts probably wouldn't recognize his "right" to have his partner starved to death.

Andy, if you want a new homosexual lover, just go to a gay bar and get one, you don't need to murder your old one.

And for the record, homosexuals have the EXACT SAME rights to marry that everyone else does.

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Especially when the Denver Post and Children’s Hospital were
complicit in the starvation death of little Dylan Walborn.

This little boy’s seizure disorder was becoming more active
and his parents didn’t want him to “suffer” any longer.

The Post chronicled the lengthy starvation death with a feature
story which might still be available on line.

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Here’s more on Dylan Walborn, it is frightening the lengths these monsters went to in his murder:

http://www.dylanwalborn.com/
http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_3319527
http://www.blogsforterri.com/archives/2006/11/dylan_walbornri.php
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3798/is_200607/ai_n17179102

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NBC "MY NAME IS EARL". Earl was in a coma last night and the doctors were taking dibs on body parts. In another scene, they were all waiting outside Earl's hospital room each w/an igloo cooler. Earl's friend told them to go away. Organ harvesting is an aggressive practice and even the companies involve admit they are being aggressive as waiting lists grow.

So what? It's not a supply and demand business. Let people recover before you jump to conclusions!!!!!! Shame on organ harvesters. We'll never know how many patients could have made it had they not been "chosen" like a sacrifice.

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Thanks!!

Will pass some of these to Bobby & Suzanne.

May have some use for the new radio show to awaken
America as to how pernicious and pervasive this
death agenda is.

Coming to a town near you!

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Didn’t Gov Casey’s son - Senator Casey - endorse BO
last week?

Odd the article overlooks how that might actually
confuse the issue and skew the vote.

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I watched “My Name is Earl” ONCE for about ten minutes before turning it off.

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From my e-mail:

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

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.

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. “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. “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, was not terminal, and there was medical evidence that she was responsive, not in a persistent vegetative state,” Henthoff explained. Full story at LifeNews.com.”

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Last night I was listening to the radio about a man who reacted just as doctors were ready to take his organs. The man is now doing well.

I didn’t get the full story, because the reception on the radio was poor, but it seems I’m hearing a lot of stories like this in a short period of time.

PLEASE be an advocate for your loved ones and friends, and don’t just leave it up to the health care professionals.

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Terri against the Hussain asylum, a redux from Nat Hentoff. He said it before, is saying it again.

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I recommend to Obama — if he wants to make amends — that he consult the disability-rights experts at Not Dead Yet for the facts of the Terri Schiavo case and its acute relevance to many Americans in similar situations.

Not Dead Yet is about 12 miles from Chicago at 7521 Madison St., Forest Park, Ill.

If this presidential contender and former law professor had bothered to do his own research, he would have discovered — as I did in four years of covering this story and interviewing participants, including neurologists, on both sides, that:

The husband of the brain-damaged Terri Schiavo, Michael Schiavo, had stopped testing and rehabilitation for her in 1993, 12 years before her death. Moreover, for years he had been living with another woman, with whom he had two children, and whom he has since married. Michael Schiavo has continually insisted that he finally succeeded in having Terri’s feeding tube removed because he was respecting Terri’s wishes — which she could no longer communicate — that she did not want to be kept alive by artificial means.

But at a January 2000 trial — as reported by Notre Dame law school professor O. Carter Snead in “Constitutional Quarterly” (published by the University of Minnesota Law School) in its winter 2005 issue:

Five witnesses testified on whether Terri would have refused artificial nutrition, including water, in the condition she was in. Her mother and a close friend of Terri testified she had said clearly she would want these essential life needs. The other three witnesses said Terri would have approved the removal of her feeding tube.

These last three were in alliance on what became a death penalty: Michael Schiavo, his brother and his sister-in-law!

It was on the basis of that 3-to-2 vote that Florida state judge George Greer ruled that “clear and convincing evidence” allowed him to remove her from life — and then 19 judges in six courts, including federal courts — agreed. Like the press, those judges did no independent investigations of their own. And those careless judges are now joined by the equally irresponsible robot-like judgment of Sen. Barack Obama. He should be proud of the Senate vote he now recants — and learn a lot more about the disabled...........

Sweet Land of Liberty: Barack Obama vs. Terri Schiavo

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Ah to be young again like this high school student, to see all the answers through a self-armored shell, through a foundation built on wobbly base, the only one offered by the media and schools...

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In either case, the feeling that surrounds "a village" is that of love: the village's love for the child. It may be tough love; it may be love that is suckled from a mothering entity's teat.

What I question is not the fierce, almost animalistic protective feelings that any village of people may develop for one child.

I know that a group of humans will and often does protest any injustice that may strike one individual; for example, examine the case of Terry Schiavo, the comatose woman whose right to unending physical life support was debated to the point that supporters of each side still chased one another in philosophical circles long after the question was resolved.

When compared to the relative apathy for many plights that cause the masses to suffer, the support garnered for Schiavo is nothing short of super-human.................

Teen Talk: Teenhood Today: Humans can't take suffering of masses

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Working in Union, a debate on bioethics...

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Citing "moral panics" such as the public debate over physician-assisted death, Northwestern University Professor Tod Chambers challenged scholars and students to reconsider conventional boundaries of bioethics.  

Chambers' speech sparked a robust dialogue with audience members Friday at the opening event of the 11th annual National Undergraduate Bioethics Conference, a two-day event focused on the “The Human Use of Human Beings in Medicine and Science."

The speech, titled "Witches, Punks and Bioethicists," dealt with moral panics such as the Terri Schiavo case, which Chambers described as a tool to “denounce and reaffirm” societal values.

“The nature of bioethics is taking issues that are causing social disease and putting them into categories,” Chambers said. “I don’t think the boundaries bioethicists have put forward are all that challenging.”

Chambers is president of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanties (ASBH), which helps organize the conference each year, and author of “Narrative Bioethics and Prozac as a Way of Life.” He described bioethics as a “concept that is still being defined” and pushed students and scholars at the conference to rethink conventional ethical boundaries surrounding issues like euthanasia, gene therapy and gender reassignment surgery.............

Bioethics the topic of national conference under way at Union

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Rational thought from Rome...

Thread by wagglebee.

ROME, March 5, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Some Catholic Bishops in North America seem to be on a different page from the Vatican when it comes to reception of Communion for Catholic politicians who support abortion. Since the controversy came to a head in the 2004 US federal election, most Catholic bishops in the US have either remained silent on the issue, or have made softer statements than the authoritative word from Rome: a word that has been re-affirmed many times and continues to be reasserted regularly.

Most recently, Francis Cardinal Arinze, speaking at a Catholic family conference in Ohio last November, referred to a letter on the subject sent by then-Cardinal Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, who said that such politicians "must" be "refused" Communion.

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"Get the children for first Communion and say to them, 'Somebody votes for the killing of unborn babies, and says, I voted for that, I will vote for that every time.' And these babies are killed not one or two, but in millions, and that person says, 'I'm a practising Catholic', should that person receive Communion next Sunday? The children will answer that at the drop of a hat. You don't need a cardinal to answer that."

For Rome it is Very Clear - Pro-Abortion Politicians 'Must' be Denied Communion

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