Attorney Who Aided Terri Schiavo’s Husband Now Advising Barack Obama

Life News ^ | 12/7/08 | Steven Ertelt

[wagglebee]

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- An attorney who won an award for representing Terri Schiavo’s husband Michael in his efforts to kill his disabled wife is now an advisor to the transition team of incoming president Barack Obama.

Thomas Perrelli, who raised over $500,000 for the pro-abortion presidential candidate and is the managing partner of a Washington law firm, Jenner & Block LLP, is helping advise Obama on putting together a Justice Department team.

However, Perrelli provided Michael Schiavo with legal advice during his response to the Congressional bill that President Bush signed allowing the Schindler fail to take their lawsuit seeking to prevent Terri’s euthanasia death from state to federal courts.

Perrelli led the Jenner & Block team that developed the legal briefs opposing appeals for Michael and he ultimately received the Albert E. Jenner, Jr. Pro Bono Award in October 2006 for representing Terri’s former husband at no cost.

On Michael’s legal team, Perrelli worked with infamous pro-euthanasia attorney George Felos as well as lawyers from the Florida chapter of the ACLU.

Obama’s selection of Perrelli to participate on his Justice Department transition team is no surprise given his comments on Terri’s painful 13-day starvation and dehydration death during the presidential campaign.

During his debate with Hillary Clinton in the Democratic presidential primary, Obama said his biggest mistake was voting with a unanimous Senate to help save Terri.

In March 2005, just weeks before Terri died, 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.

Terri was not on any artificial breathing apparatus and only required a feeding tube to eat and drink. Her family had filed a lawsuit against her former husband to allow them to care for her and give her proper medical and rehabilitative care.

The Senate unanimously approved a compromise bill, which the House eventually supported on a lopsided bipartisan vote and President Bush signed, to help the disabled woman.

Obama said he should have stood up against the life-saving legislation.

“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, and I think the American people understood that that was a mistake. And as a constitutional law professor, I knew better,” he added.

That wasn't the first time Obama said he regretted supporting the bill to protect the disabled woman.

During an April 2007 debate, Obama said, "I think professionally the biggest mistake that I made was when I first arrived in the Senate. There was a debate about Terri Schiavo, and a lot of us, including me, left the Senate with a bill that allowed Congress to intrude where it shouldn't have.”

"And I think I should have stayed in the Senate and fought more for making sure [Terri's parents couldn't take their case to federal court to save her life]," he explained.

Since Terri’s death, the Schindler family has established a foundation to help disabled and elderly patients obtain proper medical care and legal and other assistance when they are denied it.

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

[floriduh voter]

American and all illegal voters in America who are for murder should join the democrat party asap if they aren't already a member.

A villain is going to the white house. Stand with your villain, you fools. You won't be spared either if you have a notion that he cares a wit about your civil rights and liberty.

The Madison Avenue president elect will dispense with whomever Michael Schiavo's attorney recommends he does.

Dispense=extermination. It will be gradual. Come back in a few years and post to me, "Floriduh Voter, you were right."

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[floriduh voter]

All the Obama's are lvg for Oahu for a family vacation. No time to attend a memorial service but it's never a bad time for body surfing.

For sure, BHO would really suck as a paramedic.

[floriduh voter]

Who knows? Maybe they’ll have a euthanasia czar under HHS (Tom Daschle). Widows and sick children are most at risk cuz they’re on the medicare and medicaid rolls and receive SS benefits. Widows get survivor benefits too.

[victim soul]

I bet the new demonrat healthcare project will include money for assisted suicide ... and then euthanasia.

When the abortionists run out of customers (at least half their victims in the womb are females who will never need their services) they can then be procured by our government for their new found customer base found in our nursing homes.

[little jeremiah]

Obama is one of those rare people who has not one good aspect to him at all. Purely evil. He is such a malignant lying thug that I still feel I can’t wake up from the nightmare of his so-called “fair and square” victory. It is no suprise he surrounds himself with infernal people.

[BykrBayb]

Zero is training his children in how to treat him and Michelle when they get old and inconvenient.

[annalex]

Few deaths are ever that convenient

Why? (I don't get out much).

[wagglebee]

Having your “beloved grandmother” die the day before the election may not help, but it can’t hurt — I consider that convenient.

[little jeremiah]

And the photo of 0 - “the face is the index of the mind”.

[wagglebee]

I fear that every nightmare the culture of death can imagine will come to pass in the next four years.

Thread by 2ndDivisionVet.

Pernicious Planned Parenthood Proving Principled Father Neuhaus Right

A young, idealistic Obama supporter emailed me (and others) this message soon after Election Day 2008: "Please read the information at this site and sign the petition opposing the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA). This is basically a piece of legislation that will wipe away EVERY restriction on abortion nationwide regarding parental consent, which trimester, partial birth abortions, etc. Thank you."

That person (and millions of others) should have focused on the respective positions of the presidential candidates on the Freedom of Choice Act BEFORE they voted.

Electing a black man was historic, but a candidate's color or race should not determine whether or not he or she should be supported. That was NOT Dr. Martin Luther King's famous dream.

If 2008 was destined to be the year America elected a black man President, it should have been one who embraces life and traditional American values,. like Ambassador Alan Keyes, not the President-Elect.

Last Halloween, which Team Obama was tricking many prospective voters, Father Richard John Neuhaus, editor in chief of First Things, offered a treat to America's voters, am article titled "Why this Election is About the Freedom of Religion" warning what was at stake on Election Day 2008.

Father Neuhaus began: "One can argue that every presidential election is a 'historic' election. But some are more historic than others. Daniel Henninger had a provocative column yesterday making a strong case that this one is a 'tipping point' between America continuing as an entrepreneurial society or going the way of the European 'social democracies.' He cites the late Senator Pat Moynihan who said the big difference between Europe and America is that the former gives priority to equality and the latter to liberty. I'm not sure that Henninger is right in saying there would be no turning back after four or eight years of President Obama and an overwhelmingly Democratic Congress imposing their passion for a government-directed program of redistribution and social coordination, but the future he depicts is both plausible and ominous."

Father Neuhaus is right: the situation is ominous, but not hopeless.

Father Neuhaus continued: "There is another dimension of this ideological passion for the expansion of government control that is at least equally worrying. It has to do with the freedom of religion in the American constitutional order and the indispensable part that religion plays in checking the ambitions of the modern democratic state. Obama has said that he thinks it is 'tragic' that the Supreme Court has declined to advance the cause of redistributive justice. That refers, of course, to economic redistribution. But the language of healing divisions and bringing us all together—under government auspices—applies also to the social dynamics of American society."

Alas, thanks to the bulk of the major media and inept McCain campaign strategy, millions of voters were unaware of the danger of which Father Neuhaus warned...

[wagglebee]

The deathbots want to practice eugenics, they just want to have plausible deniability.

Thread by me.

British Government Criticized for Keeping Abortions on Disabled Babies a Secret

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The government of Britain is coming under heavy fire for keeping secret the number of abortions purposefully done on babies because they are physically or mentally disabled. The abortions include those done on babies who would have been born with only a club foot or cleft palate.

The information commissioner ordered the release of the numbers to be a part of a new report showing the total abortions in England over the last six months.

However the Department of Health is resisting and claiming that the release of the numbers, even though that have been released in prior years, would somehow identify the women having the abortions. Yet, any personal information is redacted.

The law in the UK allows abortions for any reason up to 24 weeks into pregnancy and for reasons including possible birth defects for the unborn child at any time during the pregnancy.

Pro-life groups are concerned that the law is being abused by those who want to use it for eugenics purposes by killing potentially disabled babies...

[wagglebee]

Finally, a nation gets it right!

Thread by me.

Scotland Parliament Strongly Rejects Legislation to Legalize Assisted Suicide

Edinburgh, Scotland (LifeNews.com) -- The Scottish Parliament, the devolved national, unicameral legislature of Scotland, is not receptive to legislation to legalize assisted suicide in that portion of Great Britain. Margo MacDonald, the MSP behind the bill, failed to garner enough support to introduce the measure.

MacDonald is hoping to get a private member's bill introduced at Holyrood next year but only has the backing of four out of the 129 that comprise the legislative body.

That means she is 14 short of the number needed to get the bill introduced and well short of the level of support necessary to get an assisted suicide bill approved.

MacDonald's bill appears to be modeled after American laws in Oregon and Washington state that require a waiting period before a terminally ill patient can request a physician to provide a lethal drug prescription...

[PhilDragoo]

Kill the babies in the womb,
kill the Terris in their beds,
burn the Christians in their church
it's Miller Time, he said.

[wagglebee]

Frightening, but accurate.

[tuckrdout]

The Lord has a plan. Do not lose faith. He has a plan. He just keeps telling me that over and over. I don’t know what it is, but ‘though he slay me, yet I will believe’.

Keep praying, and keep watch. The Lord has not forsaken us. Obama and the democrats will be aborted. Their plans will be aborted. I have no doubt.

[wagglebee]

Keep praying, and keep watch. The Lord has not forsaken us. Obama and the democrats will be aborted. Their plans will be aborted. I have no doubt.

I do pray and I know that ultimately we will prevail, but in the interim MILLIONS of innocent lives will be lost.

[EternalVigilance]

What a coincidence. The Republicans who empowered these ghouls are still feathering their own nests too.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Lesforlife]

As a direct descendant of a Scottish immigrant, I’m pleased!

After years of socialism, one wonders if this spark might ignite
to again replicate their heritage?