We have not forgotten the players, from Greed, to Dethnell to Felons.
"We will not be silent. We are your bad conscience. The White Rose will give you no rest."
Posted on 02/01/2008 2:51:57 PM PST by Pyro7480
A Delaware woman has become the next Terri Schiavo as her parents engage in a massive legal and philosophical debate about whether to subject her to euthanasia. Richardson is a 23-year-old woman who overdosed on heroin in August 2006 while she was three months pregnant with a baby girl.
Doctors kept Lauren on life support until she delivered her baby in February 2007. Shortly thereafter, her parents began a fight that is reminiscent of the battle over Terri's life and death.
As in the Terri Schiavo case, physicians have been quick to label Lauren as having a persistent vegetative state -- something Terri's family called dehumanizing and medically inaccurate as patients have recovered from it.
Edith Towers, Lauren's mother, wants to remove her feeding tube and starve and dehydrate her to death in the same manner that Michael Schiavo subjected Terri.
Towers claims Lauren would never have wanted to live as a permanently disabled person, but Lauren, as with Terri, did not have a living will or other advance directive spelling out her treatment wishes. She claims Lauren told her during Terri's battle that she would not want to live like her.
On the other side is Randy Richardson, Lauren's father is fighting to save her life and wants to be appointed as her guardian to ensure she receives appropriate medical care and treatment.
"She's committed no crime and doesn't deserve to have this death imposed on her," Richardson told the News Journal newspaper on Wednesday. "We just want to give her a chance."
Lauren no longer uses a ventilator or other breathing apparatus and is not on artificial life support -- something Randy contends is showing progress.
Towers is winning the legal battle in court as she was awarded guardianship of Lauren, but Randy Richardson has filed an appeal.
The News Journal indicates Delaware Court of Chancery Master Sam Glasscock III has put any action taking Lauren's life on hold while the court reviews the guardianship ruling -- a process that could take as much as three months to complete.
Regardless of the decision, an appeal to the Delaware Supreme Court is expected.
Randy Richardson also has other concerns about his daughter and says that Towers, his ex-wife, has not allowed Lauren's baby to see her.
Richardson and the Delaware Pro-Life Coalition released a video on Wednesday that shows Lauren at a nursing home reacting to family members and a dog.
The pro-life group also organized a prayer vigil near the Arbors Rehab Center in New Castle.
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.- The Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation and Priests for Life have established March 31 as “Terri’s Day” to mark the death of the severely-disabled Terri Schiavo from dehydration after her feeding tube was removed by court order.
The full title of the commemoration is "International Day of Prayer and Remembrance for Terri Schindler Schiavo, and All of Our Vulnerable Brothers and Sisters." The organizers hope that “Terri’s Day” will foster education, prayer, and activism regarding discrimination against the disabled. They hope the day will also encourage advocacy for those in situations similar to that of Terri Schiavo and her family.
President of Priests for Life Father Frank Pavone said, "Those of us who were with Terri will never forget her life and her death. For the sake of all the vulnerable, it is critically important that those who never knew Terri likewise remember the lessons that God taught us through her."
Suzanne Vitadamo, Terri's sister, said "No family should ever have to witness what my family witnessed, watching a loved one slowly dehydrate to death. We want Terri's day to remind us all that persons with disabilities are never burdens and should be treated with nothing but our unconditional love and compassion."
Both the websites of Terri’s Foundation and Priests for Life host educational information and prayer materials related to the day. Recommended “Terri’s Day” activities include prayer in remembrance of Terri Schiavo, essay contests about the Schiavo case and right to life issues, volunteering at a nursing home or hospital, and spending time with a disabled friend or relative. The websites are located at http://www.TerrisFight.org and http://ww.PriestsForLife.org
“Terri’s Day” to help disabled in memory of Terri Schiavo
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(CNSNews.com) - A push to have the United Nations declare a universal moratorium on abortion does not have widespread international backing, but it is playing into the election campaign in Italy, where conservative opposition leader Silvio Berlusconi says he backs a ban.
Promoted by secular figures and Catholic bishops in several countries, the drive picked up steam following last December's U.N. General Assembly vote in favor of a moratorium on the death penalty.
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A letter addressed to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and heads of state calls for the addition of the words "from conception to natural death."
It urges "a moratorium on public policies that encourage any form of unjustified or selective enslavement of a human being in the womb through the arbitrary use of the power to annihilate, which violates the right to birth and to motherhood."
The letter has been signed by a number of mostly European academics and pro-life figures, as well as the editor-in-chief of the U.S.-based journal First Things , Richard John Neuhaus, and Bobby Schindler, the brother of Terri Schiavo.
Campaign for UN Abortion Moratorium Takes Shape
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(CNSNews.com) - A push to have the United Nations declare a universal moratorium on abortion does not have widespread international backing, but it is playing into the election campaign in Italy, where conservative opposition leader Silvio Berlusconi says he backs a ban.
Promoted by secular figures and Catholic bishops in several countries, the drive picked up steam following last December's U.N. General Assembly vote in favor of a moratorium on the death penalty.
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A letter addressed to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and heads of state calls for the addition of the words "from conception to natural death."
It urges "a moratorium on public policies that encourage any form of unjustified or selective enslavement of a human being in the womb through the arbitrary use of the power to annihilate, which violates the right to birth and to motherhood."
The letter has been signed by a number of mostly European academics and pro-life figures, as well as the editor-in-chief of the U.S.-based journal First Things , Richard John Neuhaus, and Bobby Schindler, the brother of Terri Schiavo.
Campaign for UN Abortion Moratorium Takes Shape
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(CNSNews.com) - A push to have the United Nations declare a universal moratorium on abortion does not have widespread international backing, but it is playing into the election campaign in Italy, where conservative opposition leader Silvio Berlusconi says he backs a ban.
Promoted by secular figures and Catholic bishops in several countries, the drive picked up steam following last December's U.N. General Assembly vote in favor of a moratorium on the death penalty.
~Snip~
A letter addressed to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and heads of state calls for the addition of the words "from conception to natural death."
It urges "a moratorium on public policies that encourage any form of unjustified or selective enslavement of a human being in the womb through the arbitrary use of the power to annihilate, which violates the right to birth and to motherhood."
The letter has been signed by a number of mostly European academics and pro-life figures, as well as the editor-in-chief of the U.S.-based journal First Things , Richard John Neuhaus, and Bobby Schindler, the brother of Terri Schiavo.
Campaign for UN Abortion Moratorium Takes Shape
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As far back as January 2006 — almost a year before her Elvis-Obama comment — Molly shocked women readers and friends and Clintonites by writing that no matter who ran she would not support Hillary. “Enough. Enough triangulation, calculation and equivocation. Enough clever straddling, enough not offending anyone.” Clinton’s inability to take a “clear stand on the war in Iraq” was enough to disqualify her, in Molly’s eyes. And her failure to speak out on the Terri Schiavo comatose case was another reason..............
Myra MacPherson: Molly Ivins, Elvis and Obama
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Ottawa, Canada (LifeNews.com) -- The battle over Samuel Golubchuk has ignited a euthanasia debate in Canada that some pro-life observers are concerned will advance what they call the futile care theory. That's the notion that physicians have the right to decide when a patient is beyond help and arbitrarily end treatment -- leading to their certain death.
Samuel Golubchuk is an elderly Jewish man who is on life support.
His children are strongly opposed to removing him from a ventilator and feeding tube and have cited Jewish law which forbids such actions depriving people of their right to life.
The children also say that their father would oppose the stopping of lifesaving medical care if he could express his treatment wishes.
However, officials at the medical center's ICU who are treating Golubchuk have said their wishes don't matter and are intent on removing his lifesaving care.
Wesley J. Smith, a noted bioethicist and attorney, says euthanasia is becoming less and less about a patient's "choice" and more about a so-called duty to die.
He said euthanasia advocates "will impose the duty to die, first through futile care theory--which is just beginning now--and then later through more explicitly terminating actions."
He worries cases like Golubchuk's will advance the notion that doctors or medical bean-counters will have a significant influence over who lives and dies.
Smith says "doctors are presuming the right to terminate Mr. Golubchuk's life support and have the temerity to claim that they have the right to decide when the burden of treatment outweighs the benefit of being alive."
"If futile care theory prevails, what in the world makes anyone think that the forced removal of people from wanted treatment will stop at the ICU?" Smith concludes. "People who only need feeding tubes will soon be dehydrated (if they are not lethally injected first), and care will be rationed based on other criteria."
Smith says the next step will be the termination of so-called "marginally beneficial care" such as a mammogram for an 80-year-old woman perceived as too old to need such preventative medicine.
Related web sites:
Samuel Golubchuck - http://www.samuelgolubchuk.com
Battle Over Samuel Golubchuk, Canada's Terri Schiavo, Advances "Futile Care"
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Anti- euthanasia leader warns more action needed to protect Golubchuk, other patients from hastened death by doctors
WINNIPEG, Manitoba, February 13, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The injunction preventing Winnipeg's Grace General Hospital from removing Life-Sustaining Care from Samuel Golubchuk has been upheld by Justice Perry Schulman of the Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench. The 84-year-old cognitively disable patient's family has been battling hospital doctors who are determined starve and dehydrate him to death regardless of the family's wishes.
The Winnipeg Free Press reported today that Justice Schulman ruled that the patient and his family have a right to a civil trial and ordered the hospital to not remove life support. Schulman also said his order must be added to Golubchuk's hospital chart to ensure that all medical staff follow the decision...............
Golubchuk injunction upheld - Winnipeg Hospital Ordered to Keep Patient on Life Support
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"No McCain!" sez I...
This from Townhall of all places and Larry Elder.
In this case I guess I don't respect my Elders...
Are these the same Republicans who, pre-9/11, empathized with President Bush as he agonized over his decision to use federal funds for research on pre-existing embryonic stem cell lines? Federal funds! Are these the same limited-government Republicans who, post-9/11, sided with Bush when he expanded the Cabinet with the Department of Homeland Security -- demonstrating the Washington, D.C., axiom that another bureaucracy cures inefficient bureaucracy?
Are these the same principled states' rights Republicans who applauded when Congress big-footed its way into Florida's Terri Schiavo case? And how many conservative pundits still cheer when President Bush -- as he does often -- promises to use American power not merely for self-defense against Islamofascism, but to promote "the spread of liberty" throughout the world?...........
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We have here a redux of the old propaganda shouting of the far left that decent Americans wanted innocents like Terri killed and hated any who would save that innocent life.
Sen. McCain also must battle the reality that his own party's excesses drive the national longing for change. In 1998, Democrats defied history and gained House seats in the midyear election of a second-term president. Then, voters were annoyed with Republicans for turning a seedy presidential affair into a constitutional crisis. In 2006, Democrats retook Congress because the GOP since 2001 and the election of George W. Bush had turned over the Capitol to corporate lobbyists and pushed a far-right social agenda, exemplified by the effort in 2005 to "save" Terri Schiavo. President Bush waited four days to visit the Gulf Coast after Katrina. He flew to Washington from vacation to sign the Schiavo bill, which the courts quickly tossed out......
Obama makes rivals ask: Where did my voters go?
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............A women’s right to choose has taken men off of the hook. We exhorted some of the boyfriends at the death mill to be a man and go rescue their child from slaughter. To most of them, the child was a nuisance, something that would get in their way. A woman’s right to choose has stripped the man of “natural affection” for his offspring. He wouldn’t allow that to be done to his favorite huntin’ dog. “Hey, it’s her choice.” They repeat the feminist mantra. Men no longer defend their babies.
The law has lost all semblance of humanity. Police officers regularly guard the clinics and the “right of a woman” to kill the life within her. The law protects death, not life. (Can you say Teri Schiavo?) I always like to point that out to the policemen on duty.................
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Thanks, nicmarlo, for the tip.
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March 9, 2006, a Chinese journalist who escaped to the U.S. revealed to The Epoch Times newspaper the existence of a secret concentration camp in Sujiatun, Shenyang City, Liaoning Province*. At one point, more than 6,000 Falun Gong practitioners were held there, according to the journalist. It was learned that no one has ever left this place alive. Soon afterward, another witness confirmed the report of these crimes. According to this witness, the Sujiatun camp is located at the Liaoning Provincial Thrombosis Hospital of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine in Sujiatun, Shenyang City. The witness is a former employee and her ex-husband had been a surgeon responsible for harvesting corneas. About 4,000 victims, many still alive, had their organs harvested and sold for huge profit, including kidneys, corneas, hearts, lungs, skin, and livers. The remaining prisoners could lose their lives at any time. Recently, a veteran military doctor from the Shenyang Military Region revealed that there are at least 36 concentration camps in China similar to the one in Sujiatun. He also indicated that over 10,000 people were indeed being kept in the Sujiatun camp in early 2005, organ removal is common practice, and cremation of the dead and even the living is not unusual. To his knowledge, the largest camp in China, with a codename "672-S," is located in Jilin Province and is said to hold over 120,000 people, among whom are Falun Gong practitioners from all over the country. He told The Epoch Times that according to latest policies, "…the Chinese Communist Party's Central Committee decided to treat Falun Gong practitioners as 'class enemies' and handle them in any manner that is economically profitable." In other words, similar to many other heavily sentenced prisoners in China, Falun Gong practitioners are no longer regarded as human beings, but as raw materials for commercial products.
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How many people get a second chance at life? Rae Kupferschmidt has. In mid-January, the 65-year-old former medical secretary suffered a devasting cerebral hemorrhage, a massive bleeding on the brain.
"They thought I was dead," she says........
Lake Elmo woman makes miracle recovery from "brain dead" (MN)
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We have not forgotten the players, from Greed, to Dethnell to Felons.
"We will not be silent. We are your bad conscience. The White Rose will give you no rest."
I've been having that lately when I am posting to a large number of people (my moral absolutes list has over 200 people). Don't do anything, just go back to FR and look at your pings, you will see that it was posted.
Fine. Make it Kennedy Center. What percentage of the NYC population will it hold?
My point was specific to the political impact of the Schiavo case, not the facts; I'm not getting into that argument, because the regular participants on these threads know every detail far better than I do.
While a fair number of people still feel passionately that Jeb acted wrongly, a large majority do not, and I don't see it having a serious impact on any future election unless that election has a razor-thin margin.
I don't think you grasped my irony, nevertheless, the first thought flashing into my mind with the NYC analogy was this quote: "The Pope? How many divisions has he got?" Josef Stalin.
You are trying to separate politics from Terri's Legacy as if it were merely tangential, where in reality they are linked inexorably. Pooh pooh it if you wish, but just read only the posts I made this morning to get the drift.
I sense you are somehow justifying and defending Jeb. If so, consider this. We describe this thought process frequently enough in reviewing leftist thinking as cognitive dissonance, the ability to parse pro-life on one side and pro-lie on the other and somehow hold both together in separate compartments, for if we examine the two we find them mutually exclusive.
If I say I am pro-life, and I still love Jeb, I might wish to diminuate the role of pro-life so I can keep loving Jeb. I would have to, knowing the reality that he turned his back on this dying innocent.
Nice try, though.
That is what I am finally doing. I open a new browser now and keep it refreshed, so I can check on every hung post. Normally it is ok, but with this new satellite broadband, such delays are frequent and come in series, spurts.
If Jeb Bush had been a Democrat and allowed Terri to be murdered, Republicans would be all over him.
I WILL NOT give someone who allows a murder to take place a pass because they happen to be a member of a certain political party, or the brother and son of a president.
Jeb Bush had the clearly defined right and obligation under Florida’s Constitution to take physical custody of Terri to protect her. He DID NOT do this. If Terri had been one of Michael Vick’s pit bulls, Jeb would have been indicted for his role.
How in the world can we expect someone to protect the people of a state or the nation if they can’t even protect a woman lying in a hospital bed surrounded by rent-a-cops and some sheriff’s deputies?
He also knew the significance of what he was doing as it was Holy Week and he was supposed to be a Catholic.
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