Jesse Jackson to Visit Hospice and Meet with Schindlers

On Tuesday morning, March 29, The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr., founder and president of the RainbowPUSH Coalition, plans to visit the Woodside Hospice, where Terri lives, located at 6774 102nd Avenue N. (near 66th Street N and 102nd Avenue N) in Pinellas Park, Florida.

Rev. Jackson is responding to an invitation from the Schindler family to come and pray with the family, and if possible visit Terri Schiavo in the hospice.

After meeting and praying with the Schindler family, Rev. Jackson will make a statement to the press.

They broke away from JJ to President BUSH in teh Rose Garden...

Tue Mar 29 10:23:19 2005 the left of the reverend jesse jackson. As we've been telling you through the day he was expected to speak to the media after he had a visit with terri schiavo. As you know she is now in day 12 without food or water inside that hospice there in pinellas park.

>> We've been in touch with the family lawyer for about the last week. Yesterday mrs. Schindler and bobby called me and asked would I come and pray with them and be with them and i was anxious to do so. Because this is one of the profound moral, ethical issues of our time, the saving of terri's life, the day we pray for a miracle.

We ask God's intervention and god has done it before. Reach out to people across lines that divide across these biblical and ideological lines that divide and you look at in a singular way but also for what this crisis represents to america and to americans and to world health, as a matter of fact.

I've been in situations as a minister with people in advanced stages of cancer, who needed drugs to help them fight the pain and then they slip into a coma and maybe even if they struggle with pain another shoT. And you can see on the monitor their pulse falling. It's time to pull the plug and within minutes always died. This is a different situation.

Without food or water for 12 days there are vital signs. She is being starved to deatH. She has been dehydrated to death. And that's inhumane. It's immoral and unnecessary. There is no rational reason for this to happen.

I've been on the phone today talking with the senate asking them to be creative enough to try to fashion some emergency legislation to stop the starving , to stop the dehydration. We called the governor's office. He's to get back to uS. We did call michael schiavo and asked if we could go in and have prayer with terri. He finally got back and said he thought not.

My interest has not been the politics of and the finger pointing that's gone oN. We really do need family unity in ways that terri would never perhaps have had before.

You trust Jesse Jackson over the President????

For the one of the first times in over four years the President did something halfway conservative in my mind. Granted he nor Congress should have gotten involved in the first place but once the Republican grandstanding failed, he just stepped back and let the state handle it, as it should have been in the first place. I have to applaud him for that. I wouldn't trust Jesse Jackson to take out my trash.

But as he is appealing to the emotional outburst from many so called conservatives (read: Republicans), he's going to get the benefit of the doubt. Jackson is just grandstanding again and apparently it's worked out quite well for him. Rainbow Push may have to give him a bonus at year end for getting himself tied up into this one....

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