Posted on 02/03/2009 11:07:44 AM PST by wagglebee
Thanks for the ping!
Eluana's fate continues to take a surreal course. It is obvious that the Italian Prime Minister will do everything possible to save her and we must pray that he doesn't back down.
The Pope is also making it clear that starving and dehydrating Eluana to death is murder.
There is a thread by GonzoII and one by me.
ROME, February 7, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has sent a bill to the nation's Senate authorizing the government to prevent a handicapped woman from being dehydrated and starved to death by her father.
Seeking to bypass Italy's communist president, who refused to sign an emergency bill with the same text, Berlusconi hopes to have his bill approved by the nation's legislature within three days, enough time to save Eluana Englaro's life. Berlusconi's party has a strong majority in the Italian Parliament.
"If the possibility did not exist to use decrees, I would go to the people to request a change in the Constitution and the Government," Berlusconi reportedly said in a press conference yesterday. . .
ROME Pope Benedict XVI said Saturday that all human life must be protected, especially that of the weak and suffering, making a last-minute intervention in a right-to-die case that has convulsed Italy.
Groups of protesters both for and against keeping Eluana Englaro alive held demonstrations across the country on Saturday. Outside the clinic in the northern city of Udine where Englaro is being cared for, a few dozen people shouted "Eluana Viva!" or "Eluana Lives!"
Englaro, 38, has been in a vegetative state for 17 years after a car crash. On Friday, after a decade-long court battle, her nutrition began to be reduced in preparation for removing her feeding tubes, which her father has said was her wish.
Benedict didn't refer by name to Englaro in his message Saturday for the annual World Day of the Sick. But the pope said he wanted to reaffirm with vigor "the absolute and supreme dignity of every human being," even when "weak and shrouded in the mystery of suffering."
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"We will not be silent.
We are your bad conscience.
The White Rose will give you no rest."
Thread by me.
When the President of Italy refused to sign a decree delaying the dehydration death of Eluana Englaro--who some call the Italian Terri Schiavo--it seemed to seal her doom. But now the Prime Minister has moved up an emergency session of the Parliament.
We'll see how that plays out. But the point of this post is the attempt, yet again, to make death by dehydration seem benign. . .
There is nothing in this article about what Eluana wants. Nothing. Squatro. Nadda. Zip.
Thread by Diana in Wisconsin.
The board of the Madison Surgery Center unanimously approved an abortion clinic on Friday, meaning second-trimester abortions will be offered there within a few months.
The facility, at 1 S. Park St., will provide abortions primarily to women 19 to 22 weeks pregnant.
The service will replace the practice of Dr. Dennis Christensen, who had performed abortions up to 22 weeks at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Madison until he retired in December. Planned Parenthood will still do abortions up to 19 weeks. . .
Madrid, Feb 7, 2009 / 12:04 am (CNA).- The Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, said this week, When the Magisterium of the Church speaks about human rights she does not forget to base them on God, the source and guarantor of all rights, nor does she forget to root them in the natural law.
During a speech marking the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at the offices of the Bishops Conference of Spain in Madrid, the cardinal recalled, The source of rights is never human consensus, as great as it may be.
After emphasizing the intrinsic dignity of each person, Cardinal Bertone explained that the current Roman Pontiff, in perfect continuity with the thinking of his predecessor, underscores that human rights are universal, they apply to all in virtue of the common origin of the person. In reality, the mark of universality is a consequence inscribed in the very concept of human rights: if human rights are those attributed to man for the mere fact of being man, it is therefore evident that they should be recognized for all those who meet this condition.
In our days, there is a continual and radical process of redefining individual human rights in very sensitive and fundamental areas, such as the family, the rights of the child and of women, etc. We should insist that human rights be above politics and also above the nation-state. They are truly supranational. No political minority or majority can change the rights of those who are most vulnerable in our society or the human rights inherent to all human persons, he stated. . .
guessing is correct (without any other evidence).
Her father is claiming that she once said she wouldn’t want to live like this. However, her accident was in 1992 and at that time ANYBODY making statements like this was certainly talking about artificial life support, NOT food and water.
Based upon the ABSENCE of a clear medical directive we must err on the side of life.
So, she's NOT in a vegetative state and she CAN feel things?
And YOU believe that giving someone food and water is torture, but dehydrating someone to the point that their tongue cracks open, their eyes bleed and blood pours out of every bodily orifice IS NOT torture?
When the victim cannot speak, thousand of years of common law, and recent civil law says the family will is supreme.
Please show me the "thousands of years" of common law that condone euthanasia.
Worse, you are using a false theology to do extend your macabre beliefs to her.
No, it is the the beliefs of deathbots like YOU that is macabre.
I pray to God that you are nowhere near my family when our end time comes.
Based on your attitude I can only pray that you are nowhere near ANYONE who is disabled.
Lisa McPherson was started and dehydrated to death, just like Terri was. It DOES NOT take any sort of medical expertise to dehydrate someone to death, what it does take is a complete lake of human decency.
Not everyone who disagrees with you is a "deathbot". Your arrogance is appalling.
31 And when the Son of man shall come in his majesty, and all the angels with him, then shall he sit upon the seat of his majesty. 32 And all nations shall be gathered together before him, and he shall separate them one from another, as the shepherd separateth the sheep from the goats: 33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on his left. 34 Then shall the king say to them that shall be on his right hand: Come, ye blessed of my Father, possess you the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. 35 For I was hungry, and you gave me to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and you took me in:
36 Naked, and you covered me: sick, and you visited me: I was in prison, and you came to me. 37 Then shall the just answer him, saying: Lord, when did we see thee hungry, and fed thee; thirsty, and gave thee drink? 38 And when did we see thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and covered thee? 39 Or when did we see thee sick or in prison, and came to thee? 40 And the king answering, shall say to them: Amen I say to you, as long as you did it to one of these my least brethren, you did it to me.
41 Then he shall say to them also that shall be on his left hand: Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels. 42 For I was hungry, and you gave me not to eat: I was thirsty, and you gave me not to drink. 43 I was a stranger, and you took me not in: naked, and you covered me not: sick and in prison, and you did not visit me. 44 Then they also shall answer him, saying: Lord, when did we see thee hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister to thee? 45 Then he shall answer them, saying: Amen I say to you, as long as you did it not to one of these least, neither did you do it to me.
46 And these shall go into everlasting punishment: but the just, into life everlasting.
-- Matthew 25:31-46
Is this the photo you're talking about?
Starvation/dehydration isn't pretty, is it?
Do you have a less "arrogant" term for people who support the culture of death?
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