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

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

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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

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Blago probably didn't even have to ask for this blood money.

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Planned Parenthood Accused of Getting Quid Pro Quo From Gov. Blagojevich

Springfield, IL (LifeNews.com) -- Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich may resign or be kicked out of the governor's office for charges that he tried to sell Barack Obama's Senate seat to the highest bidder. However, a leading pro-life advocate alleges that Planned Parenthood may have received a Blagojevich kickback as well...

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This is beyond reprehensible and the Vatican has no excuse for not addressing this at once.

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Exclusive: Twenty Years of Eugenic Abortion at Ontario Catholic Hospital

LONDON, December 5, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The chief ethicist for the diocese of London in Ontario Canada recently admitted to LifeSiteNews.com in an interview that St. Joseph's Catholic Hospital in London has been performing "early induction" procedures in cases of diagnosed lethal fetal anomalies for twenty years, under his ethical direction. While Fr. Michael Prieur attempted to justify "early induction" for lethal fetal anomaly as not being abortion, the procedure has been condemned as illicit by the US Bishops' Doctrinal Committee and called "direct abortion" by the National Catholic Bioethics Center (NCBC)...

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The Party of Death: The Democrats, the Media, the Courts, and the Disregard for Human Life - by Ramesh Ponnuru

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It's a tiny detail among his truly evil actions, but as I understand it he NEVER was a professor but an instructor or teachers aid. He lies about everything.

“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,”

[wagglebee]

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,”

The fact that the Constitution does not directly address murder DOES NOT make murder Constitutional.

[AliVeritas]

Socialized healthcare ala Groningen Protocol, i’ve screamed this since way back (but this and the other branches of the eugenics tree were ignored, and of course I wear a tin foil hat).

The people have no clue who they elected. BTW, he’s the official president elect after Monday re: electoral college.

OT: You know... people thought I was kidding when I mentioned Felos did a lot of work in Hawaii as well.

BTW, when does BO plan to have a family memorial service for grandma?

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BTW, when does BO plan to have a family memorial service for grandma?

The better question is WHEN did she really die because the timing seemed far too convenient.

[jarofants]

I'd like to know how much he's spent on attorneys.
And were is the money coming from.

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These vultures are gathering hoping to feed on the corpse of American right to life. We must prove that our rights are not dead!

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http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/352/10/959

How long before that “protocol” is extended to those of us deemed living a life of excessive suffering?

This is how the health care crisis will be solved - through euthanasia.

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"And as a constitutional law professor, I knew better,”

Putting aside the fact that he was not a professor, but rather an assistant lecturer, I guess the constitutional law classes The Usurper took skipped over the preamble to the Declaration of Independence, which most graduates of private high schools know contains the reference to the self-evident right to LIFE, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.

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There are a pair of euthanasia editorials in the UK papers this weekend. The Daily Mirror seems to think that murder is an "act of love," while the Times correctly exposes how evil and dangerous the death industry really is.

Both thread by me.

It's criminal to outlaw this final act of love... (UK Pro-Euthanasia)

If you have ever watched a loved one die, then you know that in the end most lives are narrowed down to a place of unrelenting suffering.

Terminal illness can be fought for so long, but in the end there is pain, grief, distress - and not much else.

Death can be a relief because it brings a release from all that torment. I would guess that anyone who has ever seen a loved one enduring the final days and weeks of their life will have watched Sky TV's Right To Die? with nothing but sympathy for Craig and Mary Ewert.

Viewers saw Craig, desperately sick with motor neurone disease, sipping a fatal dose of tranquillisers in a Swiss clinic as Mary sat by his side, saying goodbye...

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The ‘right to die’ is a fashionable nonsense

It is traditional, when mounting a coup, to seize control of the airwaves. Last week the supporters of euthanasia did their best. Monday’s Panorama was entirely given over to a “report” on this topic by the Lothians MSP, Margo MacDonald; but since Ms MacDonald has already launched a campaign to legalise “assisted suicide” north of the border, the BBC’s attempt to promote her as an impartial reporter was disingenuous, at best.

Two days later, Sky broadcast Right to Die, a 90-minute documentary that told the story of Craig Ewert, a 59-year-old Yorkshire-based American, who had travelled to the Dignitas clinic in Zurich to be humanely put down. As advertised, we were not spared the moment of Mr Ewert’s death.

The very phrase “right to die” is a fashionable piece of nonsense. How can we be said to require a “right” to something that is absolutely unavoidable, whether we want it or not? It is not the “right to die” that campaigners such as Margo MacDonald want, but the right to be killed – at a time of their own choosing. This is why some doctors, less sensitive to public queasiness, refer to the practice of “assisted dying” as “therapeutic killing”...

"We will not be silent. We are your bad conscience. The White Rose will give you no rest."

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Father Thomas Euteneuer explains just how dangerous the coming years will be.

Thread by GonzoII.

Election III — Assault on Conscience and Reality

November 4th was not just a historic date in history because of the election of the nation’s first black president; it also marked a new division that was established in our country between those who have consciences formed in the truth and those who don’t. I have constantly spoken of the need to battle for America’s very soul, but I am seeing that there is more at stake here: we are engaged in a battle to define reality, and the outcome of that battle undoubtedly determines the fate of souls...

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A wonderful commentary on how Eduardo Verastegui and Bella keep saving lives.

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Bella Babies: Lives Saved

When Christian actor Eduardo Verastegui devoted his career to serving God, he had no idea what might come out of his decision. He certainly couldn’t have imagined that his widely acclaimed movie Bella would literally save lives and souls. But that’s the story that author Tim Drake tells so well in his book Behind Bella.

As the book shows, God’s hand was on Eduardo and on the making of the movie from the very beginning. To prepare for his role in Bella, Eduardo wanted to find a real-life Nina—the co-lead in the film struggling with her unwanted pregnancy. So Eduardo paid a visit to a local abortion clinic.

Outside the clinic, a Mexican couple who had come to have an abortion recognized Eduardo from his acting days in Mexico. They approached him, and soon Eduardo found himself counseling them against having an abortion and telling them about the story of Bella. They talked for over an hour and on the phone in the days ahead.

A few months later, Eduardo received a phone call from the young man. He explained that his girlfriend had just given birth to the baby—a boy—and he asked for permission to name him Eduardo...

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That seems cynical of you, wagglebee, but I must admit now that you say so, I would not put it past him.

Remember the photo on drudge and everywhere? A noble but sad looking Obama, gazing into the distance, a single tear running down his cheek.

I commented to a friend what an obvious ploy it was to generate sympathy, and he said, “Well, why wouldn’t he cry more then?” I said, “This is exactly right, he looks more manly this way, deeply saddened, but in control.” My friend agreed.

Whoever said Madison Avenue here, exactly right.

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It looks like Big Abortion may be next on the bailout list.

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Senate Filibuster Sought to Prevent Obama's Abortion Industry Bailout Plans

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Barack Obama has promised he will force taxpayers to fund abortions and a leading pro-life group has launched a new effort to stop it. The Susan B. Anthony List is hoping to build support for a Senate filibuster to stop various moves to fund abortions with public money.

The group calls Obama's promise to fund abortions and send more tax dollars to Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest abortion business, an abortion industry bailout...

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When a society embraces the killing of the innocent, they go all in.

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Dutch Murder Rate Almost six Times United States'

The Netherlands, like most other European countries, has very strict gun control laws. Nonetheless, the Dutch murder rate is almost six times as great as the United States' overall homicide rate.

> An estimated 5,981 people -- an average of 16 a day -- were killed by their doctors without their consent… And these numbers do not measure > several other groups that are put to death involuntarily: disabled infants, terminally ill children, and mental patients. [Notice that Hitler > began his genocidal programs with these groups, not Jews, Gypsies, or other ethnic minorities.] > …The path to the death culture began when doctors learned to think like accountants. As the cost of socialized medicine in the Netherlands grew, > doctors were lectured about the climbing cost of care. In many hospitals, signs were posted indicating how much old-age treatments cost taxpayers > ("The Dutch Way of Death," By Richard Miniter 04/25/2001 The Wall Street Journal Page A20 ). >

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We cannot afford to give up hope.

Thread by GonzoII.

What Pro-Life Majority?

Think of the 2008 election as Katrina for the pro-life movement. What do you do after a disaster? You see what the damage is, and what your assets are. You marshal your assets to try to rebuild. The Register has listed “we still have a pro-life majority” as a major asset. This prompted readers to ask, “What pro-life majority?” Susan Wills spells out the polling data on abortion, and explains how pro-abortion folks manipulate it in last year’s “The Slippery Art of Abortion Polling.” “Here’s how we know that Roe is not supported by 66% of Americans,” she writes. “Polls with carefully-worded, neutral questions about allowing abortion in identified circumstances show minority and waning support for the policy of Roe. These are better measures of public opinion on whether abortion law should change. An April 2005 poll by the Polling Company inc., offering respondents six choices, found only 10% support for what Roe actually does.” “Similarly, an April 2004 poll by Zogby showed 56% of Americans taking a strongly pro-life position (18% never legal; 15% legal for mother’s life only; 23% legal only for mother’s life/rape/incest). Younger Americans were even more pro-life than older Americans: among 18-29-year-olds, 60% took a pro-life position, including 26% who said ‘never legal.’” See more context in the article. We see hope in those numbers — but only if we work confidently to deepen and broaden our majority. We aren’t a desperate, dying movement. We are a movement that has been winning hearts and minds. There’s no reason to stop now. — Tom Hoopes See the Hope for America Series: 1. The Pro-Life Majority 2. The Marriage Majority 3. The New Springtime of the Faith Article URL: http://ncregister.com/what_pro_life_majority/