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FULL TITLE: Charlie Gard’s Parents on His Final Moments: “He Opened His Eyes and Looked at Us and Then Closed Them” For the first time, Charlie Gard’s parents shared details this week about their last moments with their son before he died. The British infant died on July 28 after his life support was removed, following a lengthy court battle between his parents and hospital. He would have turned 1 year old on Aug. 4. His mother, Connie Yates, said Charlie opened his eyes in the last few minutes of his life and looked at her and Chris Gard, his...

WASHINGTON, D.C., November 17, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) - The words of Dr. Ben Carson, and the actions of Gov. Jeb Bush, disqualify them both from serving as president of the United States, a leading pro-life leader said today. "We have seen what it is like to have a president who does not value every life equally, and we certainly do not need another," said Troy Newman, the president of Operation Rescue. "In my opinion, Ben Carson's statement dismissing Terri's life as 'nothing,' and Jeb Bush's failure to take action to save Terri, has disqualified them both from the office of president."...

A Los Angeles Superior Court Judge reversed his own ruling, permitting Casey Kasem’s daughter, Kerri Kasem, to remove her father’s food and hydration (via feeding tube), which will result in his death by starvation and dehydration. Kasem’s wife of 33 years, Jean Kasem, is fighting for the life of her husband, with her attorney, Steve Haney, calling the judge’s decision, “the functional equivalent of a death sentence.”Growing up in the 70’s, I was introduced to Casey Kasem’s easy to recognize voice as each week he counted down “American Top 40″ hits for almost four decades on a radio show heard...

To say that the purposeful murder of an innocent human being is tragic would be truthful, right? To murder an innocent woman who was taken from the bosom of her family was wrong. To have it done with the self-serving suspect-expedient reasoning used by Michael Schiavo’s medical authorities in state of Florida and political anti-life activists in Washington and across the nation was shame before God. In cities like Ann Arbor, Cleveland, Boston, St. Louis and many others, faith leaders as well as followers of the pro-life movement can be buoyed by the news of a recent published medical study...

South Bend, IN (LifeNews.com) -- On the heels of pro-abortion President Barack Obama speaking at the University of Notre Dame and getting an honorary degree, a noted pro-life advocate will give a speech at its law school. Bobby Schindler, the brother of Terri Schiavo, whose husband subjected her to a painful euthanasia death, will speak.Schindler has been invited to speak today at The University of Notre Dame Law School as part of the Jus Vitae speaker’s series.Jus Vitae is committed to the principle that the right to life is inherent and inalienable in every human being and cannot be abridged...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- With Fred Thompson becoming the latest Republican presidential candidate to say that the federal and state government shouldn't have been involved in trying to save Terri Schiavo's life, her brother says he wants to talk with the GOP hopefuls. He says they would be more likely to support the actions Congress and the Florida legislature took to try to help his family prevent her former husband from subjecting her to a painful euthanasia death if they knew more about her case."I want to personally talk with them about Terri's case," Bobby Schindler told the Boston Globe....

Recently, a group of surgeons restored the consciousness of a man who had been in a “minimally conscious state” for six years, unable to feed himself or communicate. The experiment, led by Dr. Ali Rezai, director of the Center for Neurological Restoration at the Cleveland Clinic, involved implanting two electrodes into the brain of a trauma victim. According to an article in the National Catholic Register regarding these findings, Dr. Joseph Giacino, co-leader of the study and associate director of the New Jersey Neuroscience Institute, stated that “the breakthrough raises questions about Schiavo,” adding that “his patient’s circumstances were different...

Republican presidential hopeful Sam Brownback is embarking on a campaign trip with the brother of the late Terri Schiavo, whose fate touched off a political firestorm over government intervention and end-of-life issues. The Kansas senator is less well-known than leading GOP candidates for president, but he is a favorite of anti-abortion conservatives who influence Iowa's nominating caucuses. Brownback is calling the tour "Pro-Life, Whole-Life." He is traveling this weekend in Iowa with Bobby Schindler, Schiavo's brother, and Francis Bok, an escaped slave from Sudan.Schiavo, who was in a permanent vegetative state since 1990, died in 2005 after her feeding tube...

As the second anniversary of Terri Schiavo's death from dehydration on March 31, 2005, approaches, her brother, Bobby Schindler has released a letter written to Bishop Robert Lynch of the Diocese of St. Petersburg, Florida.  "In light of the fact that Bishop Lynch refused my family's pleas for his help in our attempt to save my sister's life, I am posting this "open letter to Bishop Robert Lynch" which I sent to him on March 9, 2007, and to which I have, to date, received no response", Schindler said.   "On March 13, 2007, Pope Benedict XVI reasserted that Catholic...

St. Petersburg, FL -- Bobby Schindler, Terri Schiavo’s brother, says a recent nationally syndicated editorial written by columnist Ellen Goodman is misguided and inaccurate. The following is a copy of his letter to the editor to the Boston Globe newspaper reaction to her opinion piece, “Playing vegetative mind games.” Ms. Goodman: I read your recent column, "Playing vegetative mind games". The lengths that you and many of your colleagues continue to go to in order to somehow justify the barbaric killing of my sister, Terri, are truly sad and in my opinion a tragic reflection of how you and those...

ANCASTER, ON., April 24, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a moving talk Saturday at a conference organized by Alliance for Life Ontario, Bobby Schindler, brother of the late Terri Shiavo, fingered the mainstream media as having a frightening influence upon the value of life in today’s culture. Schindler said, “What happened to Terri is an attitude of non-person, this whole attitude of quality of life which has taken hold of our country. It is really frightening, and I think it is going to get much worse before it gets better. Leading the charge is a very strong, influential, slanted media.”The...

MARYLAND, United States, April 3, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In an interview with John Lofton of the American View, Terri Schiavo's brother, Bobby Schindler, said his family is fighting to stop the ongoing murder of disabled people in America. "There's a powerful and strong death movement occurring in our country," said Mr. Schindler. "We are removing feeding tubes from people every single day, and killing them, but nobody seems to care - it doesn't seem to disturb anybody, that we're starving and de-hydrating people to death."He said such killing is possible because there is a belief among those who advocate it...

The end of this month marks the anniversary of the judicially-ordered killing of Terri Schiavo, age 41, carried out at the behest of her husband who was living with another woman and his Scientologist lawyer. She was not brain-dead. She could breathe on her own. Yet despite the best efforts of Terri's family and the pro-life and disability-rights communities, the courts ordered Terri Schiavo to be killed by dehydration. Rush Limbaugh described the day as "the day our country hit rock bottom." One year later, it is still an apt description. Terri Schiavo left no written instructions nor a living...

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Terri Schiavo's brother and a pro-life priest who helped her parents and siblings in the days leading up to her euthanasia death responded to comments her former husband made in an appearance on NBC's "Dateline" on Sunday. Schiavo admitted his book he wrote about Terri and the controversy surrounding her was meant to "settle a score" with her family. He also said he had nothing to do with Terri's collapse in 1990 that put her in an incapacitated state. Responding to allegations that he may have physically abused Terri, leading to her collapse, Michael told NBC News, "They're wrong. I...

Terri Schiavo's parents and siblings are writing a book about their struggle in the epic end-of-life case that divided the country and captured the attention of everyone from the Pope John Paul II to President Bush, their publisher said Tuesday. The yet untitled memoir by parents Bob and Mary Schindler, brother Bobby Schindler and sister Suzanne Vitadamo will be published in March to coincide with the first anniversary of the death of the brain-damaged woman, whose feeding tube was removed after her husband won a court order to do so. "This book is the moving story of an ordinary family...

The 10th Eucharistic Congress in Atlanta drew about 25,000 believers Saturday, including two from Lawrenceville who arrived just a little late. Sandra Rojas and Refugio Gallegas had missed their bus at St. Lawrence Catholic Church in Lawrenceville. They had to make it on their own to the Georgia International Convention Center near Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, asking for directions along the way. Both said the chance to mingle with a rainbow of fellow Catholics was worth the effort. "The best part is to see different races coming together for the one same God," Gallegas said. Catholics heading to the Eucharistic Congress...

First Hour: Pamela Hennessy, the volunteer spokesperson for the family of Terri Schindler-Schiavo (terrisfight.org), will present an update in the case.