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.”
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.