(Not the same is not A LEGAL OR ETHICAL REASON to kill someone.)
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.
How sad. I do not understand how removing a feeding tube can ever be considered as an option.
“I do not understand how removing a feeding tube can ever be considered as an option.”
That’s right. In fact, there are many children who need a feeding tube to survive, and I can remember many of them sending a greeting card to Terri Schindler Schiavo.
Getting nourishment, whether it be a spoon, or a feeding tube, is ordinary means; not extraordinary means.
“Here in New York, Gov. Eliot Spitzer has acted aggressively to make abortion even more available and common than it already is, while stomping on the rights of religious providers like Catholic hospitals. “
How demonic can you get when the goal is to FORCE Catholic hospitals, doctors and nurses to kill innocents, when it is against their religion.
This from the left who use the “separation of Church and state” mantra for THEIR purposes. Double standards, yet again.
Attention please, prolifers:
A friend sent me this, and I called my congresscritter this morning:
“Call, e-mail, or fax. Urge your Representative in the House to oppose the PEPFAR re-authorization unless the support for abortion suppliers is removed from the bill. This is a low visibility action at the federal level, but if you can call your Representative in the House in Washington, you will be helping to prevent the conversion of AIDS relief to the abortion cause. ..”
This is the only link I have on it:
http://www.capitolconnect.com/sba-list/alert_detail.aspx?AlertID=296
(Not the same is not A LEGAL OR ETHICAL REASON to kill someone.)
"Have some water, baby."
“Have some water, baby.”
The things we take for granted, and rightfully so, are not taken for granted for the voiceless.
If not for this thread, I would not have heard for Lauren.
Double Dipping loophole in Florida. See Florida locale for more details. We're being ripped off by the State. Bureacrats and judges get monthly retirement pay AND salary. Welcome to the Banana Republic.
example:
Thanks to the St. Pete Times for exposing this practice. It may be law but it is UNCONSTITUTIONAL imo. Too bad the judges are in on it so they won't declare it unconstitutional!
Did Jeb Bush sign this gem of a loophole in 2001? I recall he was Governor in 2001. He and Bush 43 appeared at a Tax Relief Rally in Tampa in summer 2001.
Who was Senate Prez then and Speaker of the House. Floridians were robbed before 9-11.
We carried the first news of the aftermath on Feb 24 in post #366 and here is the follow on from LifeNews.
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Bronx, NY (LifeNews.com) -- Javona Peters was the subject of a debate over euthanasia and now her mother wants answers as to why she died and why a routine medical procedure put her in a coma initially. Peters was considered by some to be New York's Terri Schiavo -- a comatose girl whose family was divided over her medical fate.
Peters fell into a coma in October while she had a routine medical procedure at Montefiore Medical Center and she recently passed away on February 15.
Following a neurological operation, doctors said she had complications that would leave her deaf, blind, and unable to move, talk or think and eat on her own.
Doctors had pegged her as being in a persistent vegetative state, a medical diagnosis pro-life advocates dispute because so many patients have partially or fully recovered.
Peters' parents, Janet Joseph and Leonard Peters, disagreed on whether or not to remove her feeding tube and take her life.
The fight to save Javona Peters reminded some of the struggle of the Schindler family in Florida to save the life of Terri Schiavo, a beloved daughter and sibling whose former husband eventually took her life.
Now, Joseph wants to know why Javona "just stopped breathing" and why she apparently died from natural causes.
She told the New York Daily News that life support was not cut off after Javona was transferred to Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston, which helps victims of brain injuries.
"Nothing was held back, she was getting oxygen when needed, she was getting fluids, and she was on a feeding tube," Joseph said. "She died from complications from the [October] operation. I am devastated."
"We want to know what happened at Montefiore hospital and we want to hold someone accountable," Joseph told the newspaper. "Something happened in the operating room and we want to know what and who is responsible."
The Daily News indicated Joseph is awaiting an autopsy and that Leonard Peters and his family are also very upset by the news of Javona passing away.
Montefiore spokesman Steve Osborne told the newspaper Javona had a very rare allergic reaction to one of the anesthesia agents.
Javona's funeral was held on Sunday.
Mother of Euthanasia Debate Subject Javona Peters Wants Answers About Death
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"We will not be silent. We are your bad conscience. The White Rose will give you no rest."
Poor lefties just can't help being lefties.
...........And if this child was technically "misdiagnosed" with DSM-IV autism by Dr Zimmerman, how does he feel about HHS doctors issuing a second opinion re-diagnosis of his patient, whom they presumably had neither met nor examined? (Zimmerman declined an interview).
And along those lines, aren't Bush administration officials somewhat wary of making long-distance, retroactive diagnoses from Washington, given that the Terry Schiavo incident has not yet faded from national memory?
~Snip~
The United State government is compensating at least one child for vaccine injuries that resulted in a diagnosis of autism.
And that is big news, no matter how you want to say it.
Government Concedes Vaccine-Autism Case in Federal Court - Now What?
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He feels their pain. But I do wonder how this person is introduced at the wine and cheese functions in D.C. "Hi, I am Stumped..."
It is difficult for any American politician to embrace secularism, and it may be especially difficult for a Republican politician. The congressional intervention in the Terry Schiavo case in 2005 was not only an outrageous example of Republican hijacking of government to push a religious agenda. It may also have marked the high-water mark of intolerant governance...............
In Search of the Secularist Party
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Yet even how Elrod goes about sizing up his place in the Republican universe leaves you wondering whether the guy just enjoys sticking a thumb in the eye of the party establishment. Republicans, he states plainly, have in recent years been too willing to let their leaders slide on traditional party dogma -- fiscal responsibility and smaller government -- so long as they made plenty of noise about hot-button social issues.
"As long as they got fired up about the definition of marriage amendment or the Terri Schiavo case, that was fine -- then you could spend whatever it is you want to spend. . . . And I'm not one of those. I really believe in narrowing the scope of government," he says...........
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A couple who were advised to abort their baby when doctors said he had a rare brain disorder have spoken of their joy after their "miracle son" was born in perfect health.
Little Brandon Kramer was diagnosed with rhomboencephalosynapsis – a condition so rare it affects fewer than one in a million people worldwide – while he was still in the womb.......
In perfect health, the baby doctors said would be born deaf and blind ...and live only a few hours
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Thread by redgolum. Thanks, Salvation, Brad's Gramma, wagglebee, for the pings.
Prayer request for my wife's student (Mother is trying to have her get an abortion
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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is upset that the nation's largest abortion business is using the image of her uncle and his words on its web site. Planned Parenthood has a section on its web page celebrating Black History Month and featuring quotes from pro-abortion African American leaders to sell itself to black Americans.
However, its use of King's image and words is upsetting to his niece, Dr. Alveda King.....
Dr. Martin Luther King's Niece Upset Abortion Business Using Uncle's Image
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Voting to save Terri Schiavo's life! He regretfully voted for her in hindsight.
attorney OBAMA, from The Party of Death.(a book)
Thanks FV, I am about to unload on the Obama Nation.
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Article was written by Steven Ertelt at LifeNews and posted on the blog of LesforLife.
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OBAMA BLOCKBUSTER!!
At least he's consistently PRO-DEATH!!
Barack Obama Would Take Back Vote Helping Terri Schiavo Avoid Euthanasia
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
February 26, 2008
Cleveland, OH (LifeNews.com) -- Senator Barack Obama debated his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton on Tuesday night and said his biggest mistake was voting with a unanimous Senate to help save Terri Schiavo. Terri is the disabled Florida woman whose husband won the legal right to starve her to death.
In March 2005, just weeks before Terri died from a painful 14-day starvation and dehydration death, Congress approved legislation allowing her family to take its case from state courts to federal courts in an effort to stop the euthanasia from proceeding.
Terri was not on any artificial breathing apparatus and only required a feeding tube to eat and drink. Her family had filed a lawsuit against her former husband to allow them to care for her and give her proper medical and rehabilitative care.
The Senate unanimously approved a compromise bill, which the House eventually supported on a lopsided bipartisan vote and President Bush signed, to help the disabled woman.
During the Tuesday debate, Obama said he should have stood up against the life-saving legislation.
“It wasn't something I was comfortable with, but it was not something that I stood on the floor and stopped,” Obama said.
“And I think that was a mistake, and I think the American people understood that that was a mistake. And as a constitutional law professor, I knew better,” he added.
This isn't the first time Obama has said the biggest mistake he made as senator was voting to help try to stop Terri from being euthanized.
During an April 2007 debate, Obama said, "I think professionally the biggest mistake that I made was when I first arrived in the Senate. There was a debate about Terri Schiavo, and a lot of us, including me, left the Senate with a bill that allowed Congress to intrude where it shouldn't have.”
"And I think I should have stayed in the Senate and fought more for making sure [Terri's parents couldn't take their case to federal court to save her life]," he explained.
Since Terri’s death, the Schindler family has established a foundation to help disabled and elderly patients obtain proper medical care and legal and other assistance when they are denied it.
Related web sites:
Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation - http://www.terrisfight.org
Barack Obama Would Take Back Vote Helping Terri Schiavo Avoid Euthanasia
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"We will not be silent. We are your bad conscience. The White Rose will give you no rest."
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