Terri's Day Announced - March 31 - Groups Call for Special Remembrances of Terri Schiavo

We get an unusual clear glimpse in this thread by L.N.Smithee on what happened way back regarding stem cell research. Thanks to TheSarce for the ping.

On August 9, 2001, President Bush announced a compromise decision on the contentious question of whether the federal government should provide financial support for research into the curative properties of human stem cells extracted from embryos.

Bush’s compromise allowed funding for research into embryonic stem cells that had already been harvested. At the same time, he disallowed funding for procedures that would collect stem cells from frozen (but still living) embryos, since doing so would require their destruction. In the case of those already collected, he said, “The life-or-death decision has already been made.” But that life-or-death decision would not be made anew with taxpayer dollars.

Stem Cells and the President - An Inside Account (MUST READ!)

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Ping to an update on the tribute to T'wit. Thanks, bjs.

T'wit, FReeper extraordinaire, has died.

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President Bush announced a compromise decision on the contentious question of whether the federal government should provide financial support for research into the curative properties of human stem cells extracted from embryos.

In the six years since then billions of dollars have been spent worldwide slaughtering embryos with a zeal that only the likes of a Dr. Mengele would appreciate -- and the results of this carnage? NOTHING, not one single positive breakthrough.

Yet adult (including umbilical cord) stem cells have yielded effective treatments and even cures for over SIX DOZEN illnesses and diseases. However, this reality is conveniently ignored or, if mentioned, it is generically referred to as stem cells in an effort to create a public ignorance of the distinction between the different types.

Science itself unmasks the salient core reason for embryonic stem cell research, the satanic desire to kill innocent life. The best the death lovers can do is readjust their mask and hope nobody notices.

Since the beginning, it has been obvious that the real agenda behind embryonic stem cell research was to provide an additional wall of defense for abortion.

Few people realize that there are no prohibitions whatsoever against private companies spending as much money as they want and slaughtering as many embryos as they can put their hands on. And if they thought there was any profit potential, they would be pouring billions into researching them. However, they are spending a lot of money researching adult stem cells, this should tell people something.

There was no excuse for his failure to act. He simply did not care.

Going after the coddlers of Tiller the Killer and ilk...

Thread by wagglebee.

TOPEKA, Kans., Dec. 28 /Christian Newswire/ -- Operation Rescue is calling for radical reform of the Kansas State Board of Healing Arts amid scandals involving Board ineptitude in the handling of complaints against a doctor indicted on Federal charges of unlawfully prescribing medication that may have led to 56 overdose deaths and an abortionist charged with multiple counts of violating state laws.

Thursday, the KSBHA recommended that the medical license of Stephen Schneider be suspended since his "continuation in practice constitutes an imminent danger to the public health and safety." However that recommendation has no timetable for implementation. The Schneider complaint languished at the KSBHA since 2004. The recommendation was issued only after headlines revealed the Federal charges, spurring outrage from legislators over the KSBHA's glacial pace of operation.

Complaints against abortionist George Tiller, filed in October, 2006, have yet to see action even though Operation Rescue was notified in September that the case was scheduled to go before a "review board." Tiller was charged with 30 criminal counts related to illegal late-term abortions last December, which were dismissed without being considered on their merits. Two judges ruled there was probable cause to believe Tiller committed those crimes. In June, Tiller was charged with an additional 19 counts of illegal late-term abortions and faces a grand jury investigation slated to begin on January 8. Meanwhile, Tiller continues to operate without restriction................

Operation Rescue Demands Board Reform in Wake of Overdose Deaths and Abortion Charges

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What do Oklahoma, Ozzie Osborn, Oregon, and October have in common? Thread by wagglebee. Also note the thread attracted a fly or two, no surprise considering the topic.

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It's not an issue on too many Oklahomans' radars, but outside the Sooner State, there is a gradually unfolding philosophical shift where euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide are concerned.

On the larger world stage, Ozzy and Sharon Osborne, of Black Sabbath and reality TV-fame, recently brought certain European countries' more liberal approaches to end-of-life decisions to light with a visit to Switzerland.

They traveled there in October to scout out and show their support for Dignitas, a so-called "death apartment" where physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia were performed.

It's not exactly clear how they would notice, but the couple said they planned to make an appointment with the clinic if Ozzy ever came down with Alzheimer's disease.

(Their visit was cut short, incidentally, upon discovering that Dignitas had just been evicted from the building after repeated complaints by other tenants of the large number of coffins cluttering the side of the street outside).

Closer to home, Oregon is recognizing its 10-year anniversary this year as the only state in the nation in which physician-assisted suicide is legal..................

Death with Dignity?

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The evildoers wear smiley face masks, but the masks slip when they are riled. Then we see the ugliness for what it is. Thread by Coleus.

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“This platform gives him a real steady base and a commanding view,” said fellow activist and eyewitness John McTernan. As Ed stood on his platform that morning, a man and woman exited a car in the parking lot and proceeded towards that door of the abortion mill. When Mr. Snell tried to counsel the woman, his words were cut short when the man became furious, jumped the fence and, in the words of Mr. McTernan, “leaped on the vehicle with Ed and catapulted him off of the vehicle and onto the ground.” Mr. Snell hit his back and head on the pavement and was knocked unconscious.

His medical report outlines the extent of his injuries: “multiple trauma, right subarachnoid hemorrhage (bleeding in the area between the brain and the tissues that cover the brain), compression fractures of four vertebrae (T3, T4, T5 and T10), right scapula fracture and fracture of the fourth and fifth ribs.” Before doctors were able to stop the bleeding in his head, they even feared Mr. Snell would die. When asked on the phone about the vicious attack, the receptionist at Hillcrest Abortion Clinic refused to give a recorded statement and angrily shouted: “He got what he deserved! He earned what he got!” She then hung up the phone...................................

Pro-lifer Seriously Injured: Clinic Receptionist Shouts: Â“He got what he deserved!Â”

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Javona Peters update...

As we noted earlier, it was the mom who wanted to pull the plug and the estranged father who balked, but then he wavered and now this. That bothers me a lot. Are either really that committed to fight for this poor girl's life or for proceeds from a civil action?

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Javona Peters

There's a new twist in the fight to control the fate of a 16-year-old lying in a permanent coma in a Bronx hospital - the girl's father now wants to be named co-guardian.

The parents of the girl, Javona Peters, have disagreed on whether to remove a feeding tube and end what's left of her life.

Janet Joseph, who is in favor of "letting Javona go in peace," previously filed papers seeking sole guardianship of her daughter.

On Friday, Javona's father, Leonard Peters, who has not made a firm decision about taking that final step, filed a cross petition asking that he be appointed co-guardian.

The petitions were originally drawn to pave the way for a malpractice suit against Montefiore Medical Center, where Javona fell into an irreversible coma on Oct. 17 after what was supposed to be a routine operation.

Lawyers for the parents - who never married and are estranged - agree the guardianship issue will be part of other expanded court proceedings over who will be Javona's guardian in all aspects, including control over her life and property.

"Because of her condition, she cannot make decisions for herself, and the court will have to appoint a guardian to make decisions for her," said one of Joseph's lawyers, Edward Gersowitz.

Leonard Peters' lawyer, Lucille Barbato, agreed but added that her client, unlike Joseph, "isn't looking to become sole guardian" but just wants "equal footing."

"He respects the mother, but he's been involved with his daughter since birth, and for him this is heart-wrenching," Barbato said.

Javona grew up with her mother and attended school in Providence, R.I. Her father, whom she visited, lives in Mount Vernon.

Meanwhile, Gersowitz and Andrew Libo, another of Joseph's lawyers, said that even if the parents agree to remove Javona's feeding tube, "it's likely" the hospital would not grant their wishes without direction from the courts............

Fight over Bronx coma teen heats up

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How hollow must a person be, to be so distracted by dollar signs they can’t see their own child’s best interest. To starve and dehydrate your own child to death, for money. Don’t tell me evil doesn’t exist.

Hey, we resemble that remark!

Although, I don't see the advancing death forces as inexorable at all. We are not in a bunker defending a hopeless cause, that of God, but are standing up for what is right. Things are not always as they seem, but I am glad you are in there fighting.

Like Japanese soldiers bunkered on a remote Pacific island in 1955, planning ways to stop the Allies' advance, some of us are still fighting the Terri Schiavo wars. There was welcome news on that front when a Venezuelan man was declared dead after a car accident. He was taken to the morgue and stored. When the coroner began the autopsy, the deceased woke up. Things are not always as they seem.

One Last Thing | Outrages and the outright silly of 2007

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Catholic Charities anyone??

Here in Maine they enriched the environment by helping fund a foothold for Somalians in burkas in the Lewiston area and a whole new crime and welfare category burgeoning for the local taxpayers to shoulder. We how have great "diversity".

Boston Globe interviews the president of that body with its interesting application of the word, "Charity." It also is an interesting application of the word, "Catholic". I wonder what she thinks of Bp. Lynch. Nawww...

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A conservative blog called you "a Hillary Clinton loving, George W. Bush hating, self-described 'moderate' who describes Terri Schiavo supporters as fierce zealots." What do you make of that?

[Laughs.] Well, I'm not going to please everybody. And it's not my job to. My job is to help manifest the social mission of the Church in service to our clients. And I hope that that will please a very large swath of Catholics, because one of the things that the broad diversity of Catholics have in common is this sense of justice and human dignity and solidarity.

At Their Service

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“There was welcome news on that front when a Venezuelan man was declared dead after a car accident. He was taken to the morgue and stored. When the coroner began the autopsy, the deceased woke up. Things are not always as they seem.”

Wow!

Bill Kristol, becoming new OpEd on the NYT makes a statement on Terri.

On Terri Schiavo: "After all, we are a 'maturing society,' as the Supreme Court has told us. Perhaps it is time, in mature reaction to this latest installment of what Hugh Hewitt has called a 'robed charade,' to rise up against our robed masters, and choose to govern ourselves. Call it Terri's revolution."

Bill Kristol Gets New York Times Op-Ed Slot

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Thread by wagglebee on what sounds like good news for Colorado.

The proposed sale that would transfer two Exempla Healthcare hospitals in the Denver metropolitan area to a Catholic organization that does not allow abortion and birth-control procedures at its facilities has been endorsed by Colorado Attorney General John Suthers.

The hospitals, Lutheran and Good Samaritan, soon could fall under the management of Catholic Health Care Services, which, among other things, does not provide abortions, forms of sterilization including tubal ligation and vasectomies, and emergency contraception pills, known as the abortion pill.

Suthers concluded in his legal opinion that the transfer wouldn't violate state laws concerning nonprofit groups, and that the incoming owner, Sisters of Charity Leavenworth Health System, of Lenexa, Kan., had the authority to change procedures at the hospitals, according to a Denver Post report..........

Ownership change would limit hospital abortions (Two hospitals in Denver)

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Jovana Peters, this time something we can do...

Thanks to LesforLife for the tip.

Father wavers on dehydrating daughter to death

by Lydia McGrew

Here's a disturbing story, one that is still in play and where those of you Christians out there might perhaps still make a difference by prayer.

16-year-old Javona Peters suffered severe brain damage when she had an allergic reaction to the anesthetic during what should have been relatively minor surgery. Though this all happened only two months ago, doctors are saying she is in a "persistent vegetative state." Her mother wants to remove her feeding tube (which the story calls "pulling the plug"--a highly misleading phrase) so that she will dehydrate to death and the mother can get on with suing the hospital. (The story also uses the demeaning phrase "ending what is left of her life.")

Until a few days ago, her father was adamantly opposed to any such thing, saying, admirably, "I don't give life and I cannot take a life." Her parents are estranged, and her father has custody. A court hearing is scheduled for January 7. I gather that this is a custody hearing; the mother hopes to get custody so she can authorize Javona's death by dehydration.

But now the doctors are saying they can do no more for her and that she should be moved to a permanent nursing facility. Someone has been pressuring Dad, and he is becoming confused, despite his original clear-sightedness. Now he says that he "doesn't see the point now" if "nothing is working." Of course, if the feeding tube weren't "working," she would already be dead. Food and water do not cure; they provide nutrition and hydration so you don't die. It's that simple. "The point" of feeding the child was and is the point of feeding any child. And since when is the point of feeding your child the hope of increasing her brain-power and other abilities? But Javona's father says he needs to talk to his lawyer.

Not that I'm inclined to be too harsh on him. How many people are working their hardest to mess with his head on this one? They are no doubt using all the euphemisms--"letting her go," and all the rest--and implying to him that he is cruel, irresponsible, and just plain wrong, wrong, wrong for keeping her fed. It is entirely possible that those who have pushed and bullied him on this one will face a harsher judgement than he does, in the long run. (Wesley Smith has reported before on the bullying of family members who want to retain nutrition and hydration for their loved ones, so I consider it very plausible Mr. Peters has experienced this.)

Wesley J. Smith has reported on this story, and he emphasizes the hastiness of the PVS diagnosis. Medically speaking, he is quite right. But I want to point out what I'm sure WJS would agree with--that it really should not and does not matter. Even if you were certain that your child would remain permanently unable to "move, think, or eat on her own" (as the reporter so dramatically puts it), that would not justify removing her water for ten days to two weeks so that she would dry up and die.

So let us pray for Javona and her dad.

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Prayers for Jovana.

May her life fill with a little miracle and touch her parents with some faith...