"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.
BUMP
Due to an Injunction against Lauren's father, by the court appointed lawyer ad litem (allegedly representing the interests of Lauren), we may no longer link to the video which showed Lauren responding to family members. This order, which was signed by Master Samuel Glasscock, asserts the right to privacy of Lauren by the same lawyer who consented to terminating her life.
The video is still up on YouTube as of this morning, but it isn't known how much longer that is going to last.
Quick, hide the evidence. Just like the NYT did with photos of Auschwitz and Dachau.
Not that there's anything disturbing about Lauren herself in that video. She looks beautiful and very much alive.
What's disturbing about about the video is the knowledge that there are people who want to execute this very-much-alive, disabled but healthy young woman by starving and dehydrating her to death.
"We will not be silent. We are your bad conscience. The White Rose will give you no rest."
Steve Ertelt of Life News wrote this article...
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Dover, DE (LifeNews.com) -- Bioethics watchdogs are weighing in on the Lauren Richardson case and say that the courts and her family shouldn't subject the young woman to euthanasia. Richardson has become the next Terri Schiavo as her parents engage in a massive legal and philosophical debate about whether to take her life.
Lauren 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.
Noted attorney and author Wesley J. Smith wrote on Monday that he viewed a video Richardon's father released and he says she seems reactive particularly when her father attempts to interact with her.
"Whether she is conscious or not is irrelevant to her equal moral worth as a human being," Smith adds.
"The fight in this case is over whether she lives as a profoundly disabled woman or is made to die slowly over two weeks by dehydration--as Terri Schiavo did," Smith explained. "If we did that to a dog, we would go to jail. Do it to a disabled woman who needs a feeding tube and it is called medical ethics."
Alex Schadenberg of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, also recently wrote about Richardson's case.
He told LifeNews.com, "As a disabled citizen, she is defenseless against the court-approved, imposed act of dehydration and starvation intended to cause her death."
"Lauren gave birth to a baby girl during this ordeal, and has not been allowed to see her child. This little baby girl needs a chance to know her mother," he added.
"We appeal to each person with compassion and love to understand why we wish to bring Lauren home and care for her," Schadenberg said.
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, who 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."
Related web sites:
Life for Lauren - http://www.lifeforlauren.org
Bioethics Watchdogs Say Don't Subject Lauren Richardson to Euthanasia
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The biggest winner in the Jan. 29 Florida primary wasn't John McCain or Hillary Clinton, but Gov. Charlie Crist.
He threw his substantial political weight behind the Amendment 1 property tax proposal, and the measure easily surpassed the 60 percent threshold needed for passage. Crist also endorsed John McCain, just a few days before the election, when polls showed Mitt Romney had a good chance of grabbing victory and momentum in the Sunshine State.
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I put "conservatives" in quotes because of the hijacking of the word by the religious right. The late Barry Goldwater, who laid the foundation for the modern conservative movement, would have been appalled by some of the actions of the religious wing of the party done in the name of conservatism.
Chief among them was the effort through legislation to keep Florida's Terri Schiavo alive. The raw use of power by the religious right during the Schiavo affair sent shock waves through Florida and the nation, and horrified even many religious people who objected to government interference in an end-of-life decision.............
Conservatives can learn from Crist
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Clift, Eleanor. Two Weeks of Life: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Politics. Basic Bks: Perseus. Mar. 2008. c.336p. index. ISBN 978-0-465-00251-1. $26. POL SCI
Verdict: Clift’s writing is honest and heartfelt, and her reporting on Schiavo’s last days raises important questions regarding the role of government and religious fundamentalists in right-to-die issues. Warmer than Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking, this book will appeal to readers interested in better understanding death and grief and will benefit professionals working with the terminally ill and their loved ones.
Background: Newsweek contributing editor and political analyst Clift describes the last two weeks in the life of her husband and coauthor (War Without Bloodshed; Madam President), Tom Brazaitis. In 2005, as hospice workers were helping Clift care for the then terminally ill Brazaitis, she was being asked to comment on the national controversy surrounding the fate of Terri Schiavo, whose own husband was petitioning to have her feeding tube removed (Brazaitis and Shiavo died one day apart in March 2005). This book is what emerged from Clift’s parallel experiences. Written in diary form, it covers her efforts to comfort her dying husband and her attempts as a journalist to make sense of the many ethical and moral issues raised by the Schiavo case.—Dale Farris, Groves, TX
Xpress Reviews—First Look at New Books
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In this instance the tkach snagging my wonder is which god he is thanking, not Our God, fer sure.
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In the 2004 presidential election, a whopping 78 percent of registered white evangelicals voted for President Bush and were hailed as the reason for his victory. During this year's primaries, however, they have remained in the background of national discussions. What a difference four years makes.
Over the past decade, multimillion dollar lobbying groups such as the Christian Coalition attempted to install an Intelligent Design curriculum in schools, prohibit same-sex marriage, retain the Ten Commandments in an Alabama courthouse, keep the catatonic Terri Schiavo alive and retain "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance. Yet in this election year, there is sparse media coverage of these types of events and the movement feels dormant.
Thank God................????????????????
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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The second 40 Days for Life campaign begins on Wednesday and tens of thousands of Americans from across the country will participate in non-violent prayer campaigns outside abortion businesses. Pro-life people in 59 cities in 31 states will participate in prayer and fasting with the goal of ending abortions in their communities.
David Bereit, the coordinator of the campaign, tells LifeNews.com that the second 40 Days for Life hopes to build on the first one that saw babies saved from abortion and pro-life groups strengthened across the country.................
Second 40 Days for Life Campaign at Abortion Centers Begins Wednesday
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I don’t know how to save a YouTube video and then upload it again, but it might be helpful is someone who knows how to do this did.
I couldn’t help but think when I was praying for Javona and Lauren last night and today that there is a bitter irony in the fact that the culture of death always seems to choose Lent as their time to publicly promote their agenda.
And the final assault on Terri paced Holy Week itself and Easter...
Ping to this thread by Pyro7480 on what they tried to do to Lauren!
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WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) -- A Chancery Court master has issued a restraining order blocking the father of a woman in a vegetative state from publicly releasing any photographs or videos of her taken since she suffered her severe brain injury.
The order also sets up a list of authorized visitors for the woman, 23-year-old Lauren Richardson, at The Arbors nursing home..................
Order Bars Images of Woman in Vegetative State (Delaware)
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"We will not be silent. We are your bad conscience. The White Rose will give you no rest."
Ping to this thread by Pyro7480 on what they tried to do to Lauren!
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WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) -- A Chancery Court master has issued a restraining order blocking the father of a woman in a vegetative state from publicly releasing any photographs or videos of her taken since she suffered her severe brain injury.
The order also sets up a list of authorized visitors for the woman, 23-year-old Lauren Richardson, at The Arbors nursing home..................
Order Bars Images of Woman in Vegetative State (Delaware)
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"We will not be silent. We are your bad conscience. The White Rose will give you no rest."
It amazes me that the people labeled in a vegetative state who have “awakened,” even if only temporarily, have not asked why nobody snuffed them and put them out of their misery. I haven’t read a single case where that happened. Yet, the death cult ignores any evidence that the personality still exists.
Good point!
Some have been told that there is no hope, yet they recovered. Great point you make that none of them have complained.
This excerpt sent to Lauren’s Dad:
Can Ambien Wake Up PVS Patients?
American Journal of Bioethics blog ^ | May 23, 2006 | Editors, AMJB
Posted on 05/24/2006 6:14:02 PM MDT by Frank Sheed
Can Ambien Wake Up PVS Patients?
The Guardian gives credence to a case report concerning three patients purportedly diagnosed in PVS for more than three years who were “aroused transiently every morning after zolpidem,” a sleeping pill. That would be Ambien.
The report, by Clauss and Nel, of Royal Surrey County Hospital and of Family Practice of Pollack Park South Africa, was published in this month’s issue of Neurorehabilitation.
There are 26 million annual prescriptions for Ambien, most of which are probably not to patients in a persistent vegetative state.
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Why? Because it’s simply evil to do so or because she might not be in a vegetative state?
Is FELOS helping the mother cuz the "no images" is a Felos touch. What about her web site? Her picture is there.
This is CENSORSHIP FOR THE EXPRESS PURPOSE OF HIDING THE TRUTH and we know what's coming.
Wake up, Amerika.
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