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How would those who have sought death for Terri Schiavo figure in the story of the Good Samaritan? In this parable, remember, criminals robbed and stripped a traveler headed from Jerusalem down to Jericho. They beat him and left him half dead by the side of the road. Had the traveler remained there he surely would have died. He might even have died of thirst in that desert land. A priest came along. But rather than save the helpless man, he passed by on the other side of the road. So, too, did another traveler. Then a Samaritan discovered the...

PINELLAS PARK, United States (AFP) - The father of Terri Schiavo made a desperate, 11th hour appeal for authorities to reconnect a feeding tube to his severely brain-damaged daughter, and said he feared doctors might try to hasten her death. "I have a grave concern that they'll expedite the process to kill her with an overdose of morphine," Bob Schindler told the press Monday outside the hospice where his 41-year old daughter is a patient. "She's alive and she's fighting like hell to live," he added, remarking on his daughter's "amazing, amazing endurance." Schindler added that when he visited his...

Evidence of Physical Abuse Haunts Michael Schiavo Fractures in wife’s ribs, pelvis, spine and ankle point to prolonged violent abuse To: National Desk Contact: Gary McCullough for the Schindler Family, 202-546-0054 CLEARWATER, Fl., Feb.10 /Christian Wire Service/ -- On May 6, 1990, two months after the mysterious incident that left Terri Schindler Schiavo severely mentally disabled, Dr. Hamilton, an Orthopedic Surgeon, examined her. A year later Terri was demonstrating painful reactions to physical therapy treatment, so on March 5, 1991, the Mediplex therapist director ordered a bone scan. This bone scan revealed a healed broken right femur bone and healed...