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There is a tremendous amount of suffering in the world. In the United States the suffering of Terri Schindler-Schiavo and her family has been the lead news story for weeks. Now it's the Christian Holy Week, where the suffering of Jesus is the religious focus of Christians around the globe. Even Terri's maiden name, Schindler, is a reminder of the millions who suffered under Hitler. If you'll recall, Oskar Schindler was the man who rescued a thousand Jews from Nazi persecution and death. On Fox News, the Schindler family's spiritual adviser, Brother Paul O'Donnell, drew a parallel between the plight...

The life and death tug-of-war over Terri Schiavo is a 12-year-old court battle that remained under the radar of most major news outlets until recently. WorldNetDaily was among the first national news organizations to cover the story back when it primarily occupied the headlines of the local press in Southwest Florida, in November 2002. As the rest of the news world works to catch up on this complex, multifaceted, precedent-setting case, readers have asked WND about errors and glaring omissions in the current widespread media coverage.... In view of this, WorldNetDaily has decided to mine our extensive archives to compile...

On Fox News Channel, Martha McCallum just announced that Florida governor Jeb Bush will make a statement on the Terri Schiavo case at 3 PM EST.

AP ATLANTA - Racing against time to save their brain-damaged daughter's life, Terri Schiavo's parents asked a federal appeals court Wednesday for an emergency review of an appellate panel's ruling that her feeding tube not be hooked up again. In Florida, Gov. Jeb Bush renewed his call for the Legislature to step in and "spare Terri's life," and 10 demonstrators outside Schiavo's hospice in Pinellas Park were arrested trying to bring her water _ including a 10-year-old boy. The request for an "expedited rehearing" of the full 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was made 10 hours after the three-judge...

Appeals are under way after a judge refused early Tuesday to reinstall a feeding tube, in a case with broad legal implications.WASHINGTON – Boiled down to its essence, the ongoing legal dispute over a severely brain-damaged Florida woman might well have been filed in court under the label Theresa Marie Schiavo v. Theresa Marie Schiavo. Both sides in the life-or-death drama unfolding in a Pinellas Park, Fla., hospice and federal courtrooms are claiming to be acting in what they believe to be Terri Schiavo's best interests. Yet only one of those parties can be right. The other, while acting with...

I wrote this to a FReeper earlier. She was feeling much frustration with many here I believe because of what was, in her mind, a careless disregard for morality and the well-being of an innocent and quite defenseless girl, Terri Schiavo.The intelligent and good FReeper was at the point of wanting to leave FR. So I wrote her:*****Don't go, please. You're one of the folks here with a real good heart and very strong feelings. That is a very good combination. Don't go ........I'm getting a feeling (or a wish) that today (Wednesday) the Federal marshals or some others are...

It is evident that attending nurses have affidavits affirming that Terri Schiavo was able only a few short years ago to ingest food and water orally. This is also evidenced by the "guardian's" insistence on police overlooking her room to prevent her parents from doing just that....a secret drink, an ice chip, etc. The judge's order is that the tube not be reinserted. There is no moral order able to be given that she not have the CHANCE to eat and drink in a manner normal for babies and others who might find themselves in a dependent status. Everyone in...

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 11:52 p.m. EST Second, Third Nurse Accuse Michael Schiavo Two additional nurses have filed affidavits in the Terri Schiavo case that corroborate bombshell allegations by nurse Carla Sauer Iyer, who went public on Tuesday with claims that Michael Schiavo had deliberately withheld treatment from his disabled wife. Heidi Law was a certified nursing assistant at the Palm Garden Convalescent Center in Largo, Fla., where she treated Mrs. Schiavo in 1997. Story Continues Below In an affidavit filed with the court in August 2003, Ms. Law maintained: "I know that Terri did not receive routine physical therapy...

THIS BRAIN IS NOT THAT BAD Thanks to reader "primer" I've been directed to the University of Miami Ethics program website where they posted this image from a CT scan of Terri Schiavo's brain in 1996. The sentence attached to the link for this scan on the site says: CT scan of Ms. Schiavo's brain, showing extensive cortical regions filled with spinal fluid. If you go to this link you can see the scan in a larger reproduction. A COURT OF MEDICAL LIGHTWEIGHTS WEIGH IN ON TERRI'S CT. The Second District's first opinion in this case explained: Since 1990, Theresa...

(CNSNews.com) - A federal judge in Tampa, Fla., has refused to order the reinsertion of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube and he said key aspects of the family's case are "without merit." Terri's parents immediately appealed the ruling to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, but by all accounts, the outlook is grim for the brain-damaged woman at the center of the legal battle. (CNSNews.com) - Judge James D. Whittemore has engaged in a gross abuse of judicial power, the National Right to Life Committee said on Tuesday. "Giving not even the slightest deference to an Act of Congress,...

A lie taken for the truth always assumes a most dangerous appearance. – F. Dostoevsky, "One of the Contemporaneous Falsehoods" (1873) Death process, death with dignity, quality of life, and futile care: fine-sounding words conjured by those who take a lie and twist the meaning of words in order to fit their world vision. A vision where our individual rights and dignity come from the group, from certain decision-makers, the state, anyone but God. In that secular worldview there is no room for God. Long-held Western and American beliefs that life and the rights of the individual are NOT granted...

Why Doesn't Michael Divorce Terri? A frequent question brought up regarding Michael Schiavo's relentless pursuit of Terri's death is, "Why doesn't he just divorce her and walk away?" Bob & Mary Schindler have begged Michael to do just that, saying that they will be happy to care for her. He would then be free to "move on" with his own life; marry his live-in girlfriend, etc. Michael's response to that question, put to him last week by Larry King, was just as unconvincing as his confabulated tale of Terri's supposed wish not to be kept alive. All he can say...

Amazing...she says Michael made the nursing staff put make-up on Terri every day, yet not give her physical therapy....more.... I've emailed John to ask him if he can re-run the whole interview at 5 p.m. ET. The interview is still continuing.

Shameful! There's really no other word to describe what is now both the Terri Schiavo ``case'' and the Terri Schiavo ``law.'' Before there was a ``case'' or a ``law,'' Terri Schiavo was just a 26-year-old woman, wife to Michael Schiavo, daughter of Bob and Mary Schindler. Then in 1990 a heart attack, likely resulting from an eating disorder, cut the oxygen to her brain, putting her in what doctors describe as ``a persistent vegetative state.'' Since then Michael Schiavo and the Schindlers have played dysfunctional family - neither willing to relent on who should have the last word on Terri...

I HAVE JUST FINISHED A CONVERSATION WITH A NURSE NAMED NORA. NORA IS A NURSE WHO HAS WORKED WITH TERRI AT HOSPICE. NORA AND I SPOKE FOR A LONG TIME. SHE IS A NURSE WHO HAS COME FORWARD FROM WOODSIDE HOSPICE AND HAS TOLD ME SHE IS APPALLED THAT THEY ARE DOING THIS TO TERRI. SHE TOLD ME TERRI LAUGHS WHEN SHE HAS TOLD HER JOKES. YESTERDAY, NORA WAS TOLD BY THE AGENCY SHE WORKS FOR, THAT WOODSIDE HOSPICE DID NOT WANT HER BACK WORKING AT THE FACILITY. NORA HAS BEEN WORKING THERE FOR TWO YEARS AS AN AGENCY NURSE....

If the tragic case of Terri Schiavo shows nothing else, it shows how easily "the right to die" can become the right to kill. It is hard to believe that anyone, regardless of their position on euthanasia, would have chosen the agony of starvation and dehydration as the way to end someone's life. A New York Times headline on March 20th tried to assure us: "Experts Say Ending Feeding Can Lead to a Gentle Death" but you can find experts to say anything. In a December 2, 2002 story in the same New York Times, people starving in India were...

<p>Tonight it is, March 23, 2005, over five days since Theresa Marie Schiavo commenced her ordeal of purposeful and legally sanctioned dehydration and starvation. We await a decision from the three judge panel from Eleventh Judicial Circuit as to her fate, as her family struggles with seeing Terri's physical health deteriorate.</p>