pinging the list for ya, as requested.
In November 1994, George Soros delivered a speech on the questions raised by the culture of dying in America. His speech, reproduced here, elaborated much of the origins and aims of the Open Society Institute's Project on Death in America.
Excerpts:
Third, we must increase the availability of hospice services for terminally ill patients removing restrictions on admittance and enhancing reimbursement regulations. We should consider laws that permit next of kin to decide to forego life sustaining medical interventions even when a patients wishes are not known. The government may have to help family members financially so that they can take care of dying persons at home by the least expensive means. These are only a few of the approaches to transforming the culture of dying that our project will be exploring in the months to come.
More:
This brings me to that hotly debated subject, physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia. This is the one aspect of dying that is talked about everywhere -- on television, in public forums, in newspaper headlines, and serious journal articles. Voters in Oregon just approved a law that makes it the first state to lift the prohibition against physician-assisted suicide.
As the son of a mother who was member of the Hemlock Society, and as a reader of Plato's Phaedra, I cannot but approve. But I must emphasize that I am speaking in my personal capacity and not on behalf of the Board of the Project on Death in America. There are members of the Board who take a different position and the Board as a whole wants to steer clear of the issue because it feels it has plenty to do before opening that Pandoras box. Instead of getting embroiled in the debate on physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia, they want to support the training of health care professionals, enabling them to provide humane, compassionate care to the dying, including improved physician-patient communication, patient-centered care, better physician judgment on withdrawing or withholding care, and familiarity with the principles and practices of palliative care.
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I believe someone posted a reference to Judge Greer's interest in politics. George Soros is heavily involved in politics. Maybe there's a connection with George Felos, also. Guaranteed they are both dems.
Recent links:
Billionaire Pledges $10 Million to Defeat Pro-Life President
Multibillionaire Soros commits $10 million to new Democratic-leaning group
Soros Backs Anti-Bush Campaign With $10 Mln
George Soros Link to material on FreeRepublic
George Soros Google goes on for pages
I can't find a website for the specific Soros group, Americans Coming Together or ACT, although there are many by that name. Perhaps it isn't set up yet or perhaps they are obscuring it in some way.
Kimmie7,
It would seem that Associated Press news(?)wire and the Tallahassee Democrat had the story they did on Terri wrong on two counts.
(1) She is not, as we all know, in a coma, and
(2) the filing with the federal court is not about gaining access to Terri's medical records.
Both entities should be censored for the blatant errors and omissions in their coverage of a pending court order to terminate the life of a conscious woman who is breathing without assistance. That order, penned by Circuit Court Judge Richard Greer is, in my opinion, a reckless abandonment of judicial temperament in favor of a kind of Tartar barbarism.
The citizens of Tampa and Tallahassee have been told a lie under the guise of news journalism.
Do they deserve this insult to their intellect? Have the news organizations of Florida become so lazy as to use unverified sources, and trample upon the trust of their subscribers in an effort to reduce staff overhead expense? What percentage of profit is realized from manufacturing misinformation these days?
Emergency hearing set in coma case
The truth of the federal court hearing has been as near as www.terrisfight.org
But that would have been too easy for either the Associated Press news(?)wire or the Tallahassee Democrat. It seems they don't care enough about thier fish wrap to source the validity of their 'stories'.
Pause and consider the incredible burdern Terri's family has had to shoulder in the past five years.
The church,
the media,
the courts,
and the medical profession
have created a culture of collusion that makes the butcher of Waco and kidnapper of Elian Gonzalez, Ms. Janet Reno, appear tolerant.
Is was of great interest to me to read that this filing was penned at least in part by :
Christopher A. Ferrara, Esq.
Specially appearing pursuant to Rule 2.02(a)
American Catholic Lawyers Association, Inc. ( My emphisis. )
50 South Franklin Turnpike, Suite 1
P.O. Box 277
Ramsey, New Jersey, 07445-0277
Phone: (201)236-1799, Fax: (201)236-3965
Please read:
United States District Court
Middle District of Florida
Tampa Division
Civil Action No.: 8:03-CV-1860-T-26-TGW
ROBERT SCHINDLER and MARY
SCHINDLER, as parents
and next friends of Theresa Marie
Schindler Schiavo, an
incompetent ward,
Plaintiffs,
v.
MICHAEL SCHIAVO, individually
and in his capacity as Guardian
of the person of THERESA MARIE
SCHINDLER SCHIAVO,
an incompetent ward; HOSPICE
OF THE FLORIDA SUN
COAST, INC., and MORTON PLANT
HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION, INC.
Defendants.
The filing concludes:
WHEREFORE, the plaintiffs Robert Schinlder and Mary Schindler seek the following relief:
A. A declaration that Schiavo's actions violate Terri's federal statutory and constitutional rights and her rights under the Americans With Disabilities Act, the Rehabilitation Act and EMTALA.
B. A temporary restraining order and permanent injunctive relief barring the defendants and their agents, and those acting in concert with them, from withdrawing or withholding food, water, nutrition, and medical care to Terri, including, but not limited to, food and hydration given her by means of a gastrostomy or other type of feeding tube in her body, requiring evaluation by therapists and any other health care professional such as a physician to determine the true medical condition of Theresa Marie Schindler Schiavo, the administration of antibiotics and medical treatment for any emergency medical conditions she has or may develop and ordering access to medical information about Theresa Marie Schindler be provided to Plaintiffs Robert and Mary Schindler.
C. Prohibiting the defendants from denying or restricting Theresa Marie Schiavo access to and the ministrations of the aforementioned Rev. Msgr. Thaddeus Malanowski or any other Roman Catholic priest with whom she is acquainted or who wishes to bring her the Sacraments while she is under said defendants' care and watch;
D. Prohibiting Defendant Schiavo from ordering the cremation of the body of Theresa Marie Schiavo, should she die;
E. Appointing Plaintiffs as Guardian Ad Litem for their daughter Theresa Marie Schindler Schiavo for the duration of this action;
F. An award of compensatory and punitive damages against all of the defendants pursuant to 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 and attorney's fees pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 1988; and
G. Such other and further relief as this Court should deem just and proper.
Pray God that He be merciful in his wrath upon all who have had a hand, active or passive, in harming Terri all these years.
May His justice and healing be swift.