Terri Schiavo's Brother: Misinformation About Her Euthanasia Death Remains

Life News ^ | 4/10/08 | Steven Ertelt

[wagglebee]

Princeton, NJ (LifeNews.com) -- Terri Schiavo's brother Bobby Schindler has been on a speaking tour this week that's taking him to colleges and universities across the country. Schindler was at Princeton University on Tuesday and he told students there that misconceptions still exist about his sister's euthanasia death.

Terri died in March 2005 after her former husband won a court order to take her life despite requests from the Schindler family to provide her with medical and rehabilitative care.

Though more than three years have passed since the Schindler family's lost their years-long legal battle to save her life, Schindler says the public still wrongly believes some of the misnomers that appeared in the media.

Though Terri was not on artificial respiration and not in a persistent vegetative state, Schindler told the students many Americans still think that was the case and that Terri had no interaction with his family and that she had some sort of terminal illness.

Though “much confusion still exists about Terri’s condition, Terri was not terminal or dying, and her brain injury was not going to cause her to die,” Schindler said, according to a Daily Princeton report.

He said Michael Schiavo, who is now remarried to the woman he dated during the debate over Terri's life, also made up his mind about Terri's condition without basing his opinion on the facts.

“There’s no doubt in my mind that Michael [Schiavo] fabricated the [death] wishes and that his brother and sister did as well and that they perjured themselves in front of the judges,” the newspaper said Schindler said.

Schindler told the students he's worried about the long-lasting effects of the debate surrounding his sister and that more Americans will see disabled people like Terri as a "non-person."

“There is no such thing as a person who is a non-person. There is no one so disabled that they have lost their value or dignity,” Schindler said. He said such a view would be akin to “walk[ing] down the same path that led to the Nuremberg trials.”

“Once you achieve emotional distance from people who are ‘different’ from you, it is easy to look the other way while they are being killed,” he added.

Ultimately, according to the Princeton newspaper, Schindler said Americans need to stand up and fight for the disabled, terminally ill and others who are in jeopardy of becoming the next victims of euthanasia.

“We need to fight today to protect those among us who need our care,” Schindler said. “It’s our dream in the future that legal bigotry against the disabled will be as taboo as insulting someone’s ethnicity."

Related web sites:
Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation - http://www.terrisfight.org

[SALChamps03]

OK, she was not on life support. The fact remains that a court ruled that she was in a persistent vegetative state and that she could be allowed to pass. The two sides of the family in this issue are the only people who have a vested interest in this case. It was their business. It wasn’t and isn’t yours or mine. The lady is gone. All of this zealotry from you Schiavonistas is not going to bring her back. Let the poor woman rest in peace. I am sure if you try you can find something else to give your life meaning.

[SALChamps03]

I believe when a court rules on an issue, it isn’t murder.

[SALChamps03]

I don’t support either. I have no opinion on whether or not it was right to let her pass. I am merely stating that it is done. It’s not our business. Move on.

[SALChamps03]

Why are you still posting about it?

[SALChamps03]

I am not a leftist. For the record, I am against abortion. This is not a case of an innocent baby that had no chance at life. This is a case of a woman who was unfortunately not coming out of her coma in the opinion of some, though this is disputed. That’s why a court had to decide. The court decided. Let it go already.

[SALChamps03]

Why don’t you stop posting?

[SALChamps03]

I don’t recall ever starving and dehydrating an innocent person to death. Therefore I couldn’t possibly be ashamed of something I had nothing to do with. my position isn’t whether it was right or not, but that what’s done is done, and that it wasn’t our business to begin with. I am against abortion, but if my neighbor has one, I am not going to get involved in her business.

[wagglebee]

Why are you still posting about it?

We are committed to carry on the fight for ALL innocent life. Terri's murder was a defining event in the struggle against the culture of death. There IS NO MIDDLE GROUND, no compromises, no capitulation, NOTHING.

Perhaps the better question is why are YOU still posting about it, what is YOUR agenda. After all, Free Republic is a pro-life forum, Jim Robinson has expressly encouraged what we do in the fight for life.

[wagglebee]

I have no opinion on whether or not it was right to let her pass.

Got it, the old, "I wouldn't kill my spouse, but I think it's wrong to suggest that others don't" theory.

It’s not our business. Move on.

Ah yes, "Move on," the NUMBER ONE FAVORITE leftist slogan. Perhaps YOU should move on. And as for it being "none of our business," Terri's FAMILY not only knows what we are doing, they encourage it. If the Schindlers EVER asked that we stop posting about Terri, these threads would come to an end.

And before you bring up Terri's adulterous "husband," I don't give a damn what he wants.

[wagglebee]

This is a case of a woman who was unfortunately not coming out of her coma in the opinion of some,

Maybe you should learn some FACTS. NOBODY, not even those who killed Terri suggested that she was in a coma.

[8mmMauser]

Troll, We have been patient with your leftist comments and thought to our relief you took it to heart and abandoned that disruptive tack. Now, you return with open harassment and your recent posts flying in the face of rational thought establishes a pattern that for whatever motive, you are far from your element.

Actions like these are of no motive to bring anything good to discussion, but to disrupt, to taunt, and to cause threads like this to contaminate.

Not only do you reflect a dumb and incredibly naive awareness of the facts, but by hurling at us only the leftist failed tactics, you establish yourself as far more than merely uninformed, but clearly as an affront to pro-life members of this FreeRepublic forum. I urge you to rewrap yourself in the same words you used against us and get off this section of the forum for good. In my estimation, you have established yourself as enough of a troll to warrant departing from FreeRepublic.

Please return to your usual haunts where your views may be welcome. If you don't understand that, try this. Go away! Let it go already...

8mm

[wagglebee]

I believe when a court rules on an issue, it isn’t murder.

I suggest you read the Bill of Rights.

Much of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as well as most state laws have roots in English Common Law. Common Law has long held that a person can ONLY be put to death upon a grand jury indictment and then a conviction by a jury.

As Terri was never indicted or convicted by a jury (as she committed no crime), ANY judge lacked the constitutional authority to put Terri to death.

Of course you and your ilk think that ANYTHING a judge says is valid.

[wagglebee]

I am against abortion, but if my neighbor has one, I am not going to get involved in her business.

This means that you are PRO-ABORTION. Your statement echoes statements made by the Clintons, Obama, Kerry, Kennedy, Pelosi and EVERY OTHER pro-abortionist who "would never kill their own baby, but wouldn't dare tell someone else that they shouldn't."

[MHGinTN]

I have a question that perhaps you can answer for me ... none so far have given a clear answer: Did Judge Greer have legal authority to issue a death sentence to terminate someone in Florida?

[wagglebee]

Did Judge Greer have legal authority to issue a death sentence to terminate someone in Florida?

I addressed that in post 252, though I doubt the death culters would acknowledge the fact that judges are not infallible and do not have unlimited authority.

[trisham]

EVERY OTHER pro-abortionist who "would never kill their own baby, but wouldn't dare tell someone else that they shouldn't."

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Isn't this pretty much the "pro-choice" position?

[wagglebee]

I have NEVER accepted the term “pro-choice,” neither the father nor the baby have any say in the matter. The term “choice” implies that both of the “choices” are morally equivalent, the abortionists would have us believe that this “choice” is as insignificant as going to a restaurant and “choosing” between steak and salmon.

[trisham]

I have NEVER accepted the term “pro-choice,” neither the father nor the baby have any say in the matter. The term “choice” implies that both of the “choices” are morally equivalent, the abortionists would have us believe that this “choice” is as insignificant as going to a restaurant and “choosing” between steak and salmon.

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Yes. It trivializes and obscures the real issue.

[wagglebee]

Abortionists DESPISE the real issue because they know that there is no rational way to explain the systematic genocide of over 50 MILLION Americans.

[trisham]

Abortionists DESPISE the real issue because they know that there is no rational way to explain the systematic genocide of over 50 MILLION Americans.

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Yes. Abortion and euthanasia cannot be argued for on a rational basis. Those who try must deny their own thoughts and feelings if they wish to attempt to advance their case. It's impossible, really.