Posted on 03/16/2006 4:02:56 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
CLEARWATER, March 16, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The family of Terri Schindler Schiavo are working to establish a national day of remembrance in her name to commemorate the growing number of patients who are being killed in hospitals by removal of food and hydration assistance. Robert Schindler and National Urban Policy Action Council president Kevin Fobbs have joined forces in an effort to help disabled people and other avoid Terri's fate.
The goal is to gather a million signatures to petition state officials to establish March 31 as a national day of remembrance, similar to the annual remembrance of the anniversary of the abortion decision, Roe v. Wade.
“Terri Schiavo’s legacy has taught us that life is precious and should be protected,” Fobbs, also a Michigan radio talk show host, said.
"One year ago the nation was emotionally torn apart with grief because of the life and untimely death of Terri Schiavo," Schindler and Fobbs said in a statement. "Some called it a pursuit of the culture of death, however Terri’s very life stood for the culture of life."
"Now a nation that still grieves in its heart will respectfully honour the life of Terri Schiavo by pledging support for an annual national day of remembrance on March 31," they said.
Let us work and pray to ensure that Terri's murder is one day celebrated as the turning point in our struggle.
Let's see if her miserable excuse for a husband tries to block this somehow.
I agree with your post entirely.
forget him. ultimately he was just a pawn... a "Roe" in euthenasia game.
I have enough trouble with MLK day. What did Terry ever do? She was just unlucky enough to get sick. No different from millions of other people, on millions of other days.
Better to honor and remember people who do great things. Say Paul Tibbets day. Edison day. John Moses Browning day. Jonas Salk day. George Catlett Marshall day.
Just my point of view. Your mileage may vary.
I thinking killing her, and other people similar to her, in the way that she was killed will have a lasting impact on our society- but a National Day of Remembrance is going too far, IMO.
Even IF one was for personal euthanasia and even IF one believed that Terri was nothing but a "vegetable", that does not excuse the horrendous way she was murdered. We give convicted murderers more consideration in making sure they are executed "humanely"... Why is it not ok to starve animals and criminals, but it is ok to starve and dehydrate an innocent woman whose husband wanted her dead?
This is an evil I will never forget.. it opened my eyes even wider to the corruption and death that happens in this country.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
Go to hell,troll.
You were too late. And that was disgusting.
I meant, of course, the troll's comment was disgusting.
Apologies to all for the language used,blood pressure is still way too high at the moment.
Terri was legally put to death in a most merciless, cruel manner, while her loved ones pleaded for her life, and absent any evidence that she ever desired to end her life.
It is still happening to others, it will continue to happen, it could happen to any of us.
Personally I don't think a day of remembrance is sufficient. A few indictments would be a good start.
But I'll settle for a day of remembrance.
You're spot on the money. A day of remembrance should also be a day of activism.
How quickly we forget...
Count me in. God Bless Terri and her family.
Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.
John Donne 1572-1631 died the same date, March 31.
I will never understand how otherwise intelligent people cannot tell the difference between "brain-damaged" and "brain-dead".
FR started to fall apart when so-called conservatives started to call for the death of a woman who had suffered severe brain-damage. It's not been the same since then.
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