Let Lauren Live!

ChristtheKingMaine ^ | May 7, 2008 | Judie Brown

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LAUREN RICHARDSON - YOU CAN HELP!
By Judie Brown

It has been a source of ongoing sadness to read of the difficulties Lauren Richardson’s father has had over the course of the past several months. For those of you who are not familiar with her case, Lauren overdosed on heroin on August 28, 2006. She suffered oxygen deprivation and, as a result of the overdose, is now in a coma and unable to speak out for herself. At the time of the overdose, Lauren was expecting a baby. Her parents honored what they knew would have been her wish and did all they could to keep her healthy and comfortable until the child was born. Today, though Lauren may not be aware of it, she is the mother of Ember Grace, who was born in February 2007.

Since the birth of her daughter, Lauren remains unable to speak of her concerns, but she has a loving father who is doing all he can to protect her from suffering the same fate as Terri Schiavo. However, Lauren’s mother, who has been named her legal guardian, is sadly not of the same opinion and is working with attorneys to pressure the courts to permit Lauren’s starvation.

Lauren’s father has kept hope alive, even at times when there appeared to be no hope in human terms. Lauren’s father is a man of hope in Christ and is dedicated to spending every breath he has on defending Lauren, regardless of what it might cost him in physical exhaustion and worldly goods. The most recent update for those concerned about Lauren tells us the following:

We struggle at times as we seek to share with the public the details of what is happening with Lauren because of the disagreement we have with Lauren’s mother. We cannot understand her reasoning in refusing a path of hope, healing and restoration for Lauren and insisting on causing her death by withholding food and water from her. The issue in Lauren’s case is the eternal truth that all people, no matter what their medical condition, bear the image of God and deserve basic care and an opportunity to be restored to health.

Bobby Schindler, Terri Schiavo’s brother, has written about Lauren in an editorial earlier this year, "False Compassion," and is working closely with Lauren’s father in order to provide expertise that he is uniquely qualified to share during a trying time like this.

There are many links on the Life for Lauren web site that will assist you in tracking this case and learning who is supporting Lauren’s ongoing care and who is opposing it. More importantly, there is something you can do to express your concerns.

ACTION NEEDED NOW

The governor of Delaware, Ruth Ann Minner, is being asked by pro-life Americans across this nation to intervene in this case in order to save Lauren from what many fear is an imminent court order dictating that Lauren be starved and dehydrated to death. I am asking you to be one of those who communicates your passionate belief that Lauren’s life is sacred and deserves to be protected from those who would order her death. The governor’s e-mail address is governor.minner@state.de.us.

Further, it would mean a great deal to Lauren’s father, Randy, if you sent him a copy of your e-mail to Governor Ruth Ann Minner. Randy’s e-mail address is Lifeforlauren@aol.com. 

During a recent visit to Anchorage, Alaska where Bobby Schindler was invited to speak, he told a reporter from The Catholic Anchor, "Once we accept that killing is an acceptable answer to human suffering, we lose any type of parameters. Euthanasia is a form of abandonment. It is not compassion."

Truer words were never spoken. As I frequently tell people who argue that we pro-lifers are being heartless and cruel for fighting to defend the rights of a "hopeless case," "God is the author of every human being’s life, and He has never given permission to a single one of us to arbitrarily rob another human being of life for any reason including disability or illness."

As Flannery O’Connor once wrote on the subject of false compassion, "In the absence of faith, we govern by tenderness. And tenderness leads to the gas chamber."

Lauren Richardson is not terminal – she is severely disabled. Lauren Richardson should not be murdered.

Judie Brown is president of American Life League and a member of the Pontifical Academy for Life.

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The trouble w/cases like Karen Weber is that people like George Felos come calling and he’s a hypnotist who dabbles in mind control. I’m serious. If he goes near Karen’s hubby, her life might be on the line.

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Judge (term loosely) Greer No Shelter from the Storm (poor baby. afraid at work.)

http://www.sptimes.com/2008/01/20/Life/Schiavo_judge_gets_no.shtml

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http://www.sptimes.com/2008/01/20/Life/Schiavo_judge_gets_no.shtml

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NY CONSIDERS BODY PART AMBULANCES to expedite organ harvesting. (www.notdeadyet.org might object). http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9143NHO0&show_article=1

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Those people have an agenda.

[Sun]

Thank you for asking our pro-life friends to pray for Debbie!

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Ping to this thread by Dawnsblood following my own post #413, "The Audacity of Death." Thanks, FV for the ping.

And again thanks Daniel Allott.

According to Barack Obama, Gianna Jessen shouldn't exist.

Miss Jessen is an exquisite example of what antiabortion advocates call a "survivor." Well into her third trimester of pregnancy, Gianna's biological mother was injected with a saline solution intended to induce a chemical abortion at a Los Angeles County abortion center. Eighteen hours later, and precious minutes before the abortionist's arrival, Gianna emerged. Premature and with severe injuries that resulted in cerebral palsy. But alive.....

The Audacity of Death

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:o)

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Although the news is quiet today, we keep watch for Karen, Lauren, Haleigh Poutre, and Sam Golubchuk, and watch for others.

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Gianna Jessen is one of the most amazing people in the world and ANYBODY who hears her story and remains pro-death is truly devoid of a soul.

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It is all from the same mindset really. Some people are inconvenient to some people and many of us (not Freepers, Americans in general) seem to believe that is reason enough to kill people. I hope and pray Lauren is given a chance to live. I think many have said it but I’ll repeat “A society is judged by how it treats it's least desirable members”.

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Remember Terri Schiavo. Keep Lauren Richardson and Karen Weber in our prayers. Seems like the courts and death care system prefers to take away the rights of women more so than men. It gives new meaning to “suffragette”.

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Karen Weber in an article by Carrie Hutchens...

Governor Minner, please note: Please keep Lauren Richardson off death row.

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Karen Weber, a 57 year old woman from Florida, suffered a stroke in December. Husband, Raymond Weber, has sought to have Mrs. Weber's feeding tube removed claiming she is in a vegetative state. However, according to "Family split on feeding tube - Schiavo case remembered" (The Washington Times -- June 5, 2008), "A judge issued an injunction, prohibiting the tube's removal, and has appointed a committee composed of a neurologist and two psychologists to determine her competency."

In March of 2005, Florida held the public and horrendous execution of an innocent young woman, who had mysteriously collapsed on February 25, 1990. It was a death that stretched through thirteen days of unspeakable torture and hideous cruelty that would not be allowed if done unto an animal. But it wasn't done unto an animal -- it was done to Terri Schiavo. Ms. Schiavo died at 9:05 a.m. on March 31, 2005 with the world watching. Will we be forced to watch again?

The Washington Times quoted Mr. Weber's attorney (Colin Cameron)...

"Mr. Weber is of the opinion that Karen does not want to live as a vegetable and that she would prefer the body to take its natural course," Mr. Cameron said.

Death by dehydration and starvation is not a "natural course." It is a forced and agonizing death.

To order no heroic measures to counter an event created by the body giving up, is one thing. To order the removal of a feeding tube is quite another. Removing a feeding tube is creating the event and staging an intended outcome from the onset. That is not "letting someone go" -- that is "making the person go."

It is difficult for some to feel comfortable with Florida having jurisdiction over helpless individuals who have fallen victim to illness or injury after the Schiavo and Ted Stith cases. (In January 2006, Ted Stith Sr had a stroke while visiting in Florida. On or about January 31, 2006, he died as a result of death by dehydration and starvation with no time given for a hint of recovery.) Will Mrs. Weber share their legacy?

On the other hand, unlike the Schiavo case, the article goes on to say...

"Mr. Weber did not contest the March injunction that kept his wife's feeding tube in place, Mr. Cameron noted. If the judge determines that Mrs. Weber has the capacity to make her own choices, Mr. Weber would abide by the decision.

"There is no intent at this point to fight what's going on," Mr. Cameron said.

Martha Tatro, Mrs. Weber's mother, objects to the removal of the feeding tube and has hired attorney Joseph Rodowicz to assist in her efforts to prevent it from happening. Both Mrs. Tatro and Mr. Rodowicz are adamant that Karen Weber is responsive and deserves a chance to live. Thus, a reason the judge has issued the injunction and appointed a committee to review Mrs. Weber's condition and make a determination and recommendation.
Mr. Weber may very well have the best of intentions and be under the belief that removal of a feeding tube is a quiet, natural and peaceful way to go. (Some in Florida preach such to be so.) However, one can hope that as he gathers further and more complete information, he will come to realize that the forced and agonizing death by dehydration and starvation should never be an option considered and therefore determine that it won't be.

The Horrendous Killing: Death by Dehydration & Starvation

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Terri's Listers ping to above post on Karen Weber!

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LifeSiteNews does an update on Karen Weber...

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WEST PALM BEACH, Florida, June 5, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Another Florida woman who receives food and hydration through a feeding tube, is at the center of a court case that is strongly reminiscent of the Terri Schiavo case.

Karen Weber, 57, was hospitalized after she suffered a stroke in December and receives food and hydration through a feeding tube. Her husband Raymond Weber has gone to court, over the wishes of her mother, to have the feeding tube removed so that she can be "allowed to die".

The Associated Press says that Raymond Weber argues his wife is in a "vegetative state" but his lawyer says that he does not want his situation "to turn into a Terri Schiavo-type circus". Attorney Colin Cameron said, "Mr. Weber is of the opinion that Karen does not want to live as a vegetable and that she would prefer the body to take its natural course".

In March, a judge ruled for Karen's mother, Martha Tatro, and ordered that Karen's feeding tube be maintained. The judge also appointed a committee to evaluate her condition.

Karen's family says they will "be defending Karen to the end". The family says that Karen communicates using body language and told her family she wanted to keep her feeding tube in March and April. Karen shows signs that she is conscious and alert.

The attorney for the Tatro family, Joseph Rodowicz, said, "I actually witnessed her moving her hands and responding. Based on that, my view of the law is that she's competent enough to make her own determinations, and she made it clear to me that she does not want to go to hospice."

Rodowicz said, "People wake up from comas. ... She's certainly not in a vegetative state."

Colin Cameron said that Mr. Weber is willing to wait for the outcome of the assessment of Karen's competency and did not challenge the court order. "There is no intent at this point to fight what's going on," AP quotes Cameron saying.

Alex Schadenberg, the chairman of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, decried this most recent "Schiavo-like" case, which he says is merely the latest in a growing list of such cases.

"The case of Terri Schiavo was a turning point in the history of the issue of euthanasia and assisted suicide," Schadenberg told LifeSiteNews.com. "While people grieved and mourned the death of Terri, the euthanasia lobby accomplished its goal of making sure that Terri died by dehydration.

"With all these horrific cases, the first case is always the greatest shock to the public. Now that the option of dehydrating a person to death is not only publicly known, but also supported by much of the medical community and upheld by the courts we are facing many more similar cases."
 
He concluded, "We can only hope that people everywhere will wake up to the horror of what euthanasia by dehydration entails and force lawmakers and ethicists to reverse the course of decisions and stop this horror from continuing."

Florida Woman's Family Goes to Court to Stop Feeding Tube Removal Husband doesn't want "Terri Schiavo type media circus"

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From WorldNetDaily this morning, an excerpt. Please follow the link to the story...

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The Alaska Supreme Court has granted a motion sought by an attorney working with the Alliance Defense Fund to keep life support systems operating for a patient who could die within minutes of those tubes being removed.

The little-reported case bears some similarities to the extended battle waged by the family of Terri Schiavo, on whom WND reported extensively, to prevent her death by starvation and dehydration....................

Court orders hospital to keep feeding patient Another Terri Schaivo? But this husband battling doctors for wife's life

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An essay in the Christian Post...

What if the Culture War is over and we’ve lost? What if it was lost a long time ago? What if it was lost long before the recent California Supreme Court decision, before the Terri Schiavo fiasco, and even before Roe vs. Wade?

What if the litany of abuses we’ve witnessed over the last decades are not the signs of progressively slipping morals but rather the natural consequence of morals having slipped once and for all? How we answer this question informs how we - especially those of us who are Christians - proceed. If we have in fact lost the culture war then we need to ask ourselves how we lost it and how we can rebuild to fight again, and this time be victorious.

Observers who know their history and understand human nature can see where things are going and know that the means by which liberal activists pursue their agenda can backfire on them. Today the gay “marriage” activists in California are pleased because they have got their way. It is entirely plausible, though, that a decade hence courts might employ the same tactic but in a manner the gays find disagreeable. Alas for them, it will be too late! Somehow, though, these activists - and many sympathetic Americans with them - can’t see that.................

Will Admitting Defeat in the Culture War Revitalize Evangelism?

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A glimpse of times past! It was well over a year ago, when T'wit was around as our staunch core of strength. Trolls have drifted on or went up in smoke since, and to our deep regret, T'wit has passed, R.I.P., But he set a standard which remains, and a memory which permeates all our efforts from those days forward. Thanks, FV, for the reminder.

What a privilege it was to count T'wit on our side!

#132

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>> Brain on the left is a healthy brain, brain on the right is Schiavo's brain.

You are perpetuating a scam.

"...those two particular CT slices, that I have seen released by the press as 'evidence,' resort to trickery... when someone resorts to image trickery to make one point, your B.S. meter starts to go off about everything else they claim to be true."

A Freeper doc explains the scam used in comparing these two images

See also his posts at #94 and #138 in the same thread.

132 posted on Sunday, April 01, 2007 2:01:36 AM by T'wit (Of course liberals have brains! They can’t ALWAYS be wrong without thinking hard how to do it.)

The new meaning of Easter: Terri Schiavo

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>> Brain on the left is a healthy brain, brain on the right is Schiavo's brain.

You are perpetuating a scam.

"...those two particular CT slices, that I have seen released by the press as 'evidence,' resort to trickery... when someone resorts to image trickery to make one point, your B.S. meter starts to go off about everything else they claim to be true."

A Freeper doc explains the scam used in comparing these two images

See also his posts at #94 and #138 in the same thread.

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FV pinged me on the thread The Audacity of Death by Dawnsblood. What would have Barack Hussain Muhammad Obama done on behalf of this child? Excerpted from Fox News...

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A mother who decided to abort her son because he may have inherited a life-threatening kidney condition is overjoyed that he survived the procedure.

Jodie Percival of Nottinghamshire, England, said she and her fiancee made the decision to abort baby Finley when she was eight weeks pregnant.

Percival's first son Thane died of multicystic dysplastic kidneys — which causes cysts to grow on the kidneys of an unborn baby — and her second child Lewis was born with serious kidney damage and currently has just one kidney, the Daily Mail reported.

Click here for a photo of baby Finley.

Baby Miraculously Survives Abortion, Expected to Live 'Normal' Life

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From the thread, "The Audacity of Death",

The Audacity of Death

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I used to look forward to T’wit’s posts. He is missed.