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

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

When reading the ‘job description’ for the level of judgeship Greer held (the extent of powers of his court), it is plain that Greer did not have the authority to order an execution, yet he accomplished exactly that right under Jeb Bush’s feckless nose, even ordering that anyone caught giving Terri so much a taste of water on her lips would be severely prosecuted by Greer’s kangaroo court. And the state of Floriduh ignored the most powerful method to stop the killing by allowing the fool Greer to order and maintain an execution he was not authorized to carry through his level of the judiciary. Jeb Bush is as culpable as Greer, et al. Florida is not a safe state to travel through, much less reside there!

No, it doesn’t mean that I am pro-abortion. There are many laws that I don’t agree with. It doesn’t mean I am going to break them. Abortion is legal. Americans currently are legally able to obtain them. What right do I have to get involved in my neighbor’s business if he or she isn’t breaking the law? I can tell by your stance that your belief rises to the level of zealotry.

Saying, "I wouldn't do something, but wouldn't ask another person not to," IS supporting it. I'm quite sure that 150 years ago you would have used the same argument to excuse slavery.

And people who use terms like "zealot" are almost NEVER pro-life. Perhaps it's time for you to go back to your DUmmie friends.

Troll? I have been a Free Republic member for years. I suppose that you consider anyone who disagrees with you to be a troll. I suppose I could complain about harassment, but I choose not to. I gave my reasons as to why I think everyone should move on. You and many others (notice I didn't say "and your ilk") are so emotional about this topic that you cannot let it go.

I believe as conservative, we have more important battles to be fought. All the hand wringing and emotional outbursts in the world are not going to bring this woman back. The entire circumstance was tragic and unfortunate. But, all of our energy could be applied to more productive causes. May she rest in peace. I'm sure she's in a better place.

If the Schindlers EVER asked that we stop posting about Terri, these threads would come to an end.

I have a serious doubt as to the sincerity of that statement.

You seem to love throwing the "lefist" moniker in my direction. I am not a liberal because my opinion happens to differ from yours on this matter.

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