Terri Schiavo's Family Launches New Radio Program on Protecting the Disabled

Life News ^ | 3/6/08 | Steven Ertelt

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Tampa, FL (LifeNews.com) -- The foundation that Terri Schiavo's family created after her death is continuing its efforts to help the elderly and disabled obtain appropriate medical care. The foundation is launching a new radio program on a Tampa station that will be simulcast on the Internet and later expanded to other Florida stations.

The Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation will start the new America's Lifeline program this weekend life from the Tampa studios of Talk Radio 860 WGUL, a Christian station.

Prominent radio health care advocate Cary Hall will co-sponsor the program along with Terri's brother Bobby Schinder and her sister Suzanne Vitadamo, the foundation's directors.

Hall is also the host of a successful radio show called The Health Insurance Advocate which broadcasts from two Midwest stations.

"America's Lifeline is something we've wanted to do for some time," Vitadamo told LifeNews.com on Thursday.

"With Cary Hall's health care expertise my family's experience trying to save Terri, and now running her foundation which works to save those like Terri, we'll be able to educate Americans and raise awareness about the euthanasia movement like never before," she added.

Vitadamo said the program would focus on controversial cases of people who have been subjected to potential euthanasia or denial of lifesaving medical treatment, such as Lauren Richardson in Delaware.

It will help people learn about the best advanced directives for treatment, learn about the dangers of assisted suicide, focus on state and federal laws and explain how hospice care can be helpful.

The program will also delve into the controversial futile care theory whereby hospitals and doctors are more routinely giving up on providing care for patients they consider "too far gone."

The America's Lifeline debut is set for 3 PM EST on Saturday, March 15, 2008 and it will also be streamed worldwide via the Internet at http://860wgul.townhall.com.

The program is poised to expand into other Florida radio markets including Orlando and Miami.

Related web sites:
Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation - http://www.terrisfight.org

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Certain things TERRIfy the lefties to the point of tears. A change in the Supreme Court is high on their list as they fret over Terri's Legacy that just doesn't go away.

Another Gannett Publication so link only.

ALABAMA VOICES: Controlling the court

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Why we persevere...Thread by wagglebee.

HIALEAH, Fla., March 6, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Results of a forensic pathologist's review of documents and slides related to the autopsy of a baby born alive during an abortion at a Hialeah clinic in 2006, reveal that non-medical workers may have committed manslaughter when they shoved the struggling baby girl into a biohazard bag and tossed her on the roof of the clinic to die.

The Thomas Moore Society, who is representing the mother of the baby, named Shanice Denise, hired forensic pathologist Abdullah Fatteh to inspect the available evidence, including the county autopsy report, microscopic slides prepared by the medical examiner, and other records..........

Forensic Report Indicates Manslaughter at Florida Abortion Mill - Baby Was Born Alive

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Haleigh Poutre update...

We have chronicled Haleigh's plight from the very beginning in our Terri Dailies. Link upthread to the Lauren Richardson thread and last month's Terri Dailies will have more detailed info on recent events and historic as well. This is a separate thread by wagglebee.

BOSTON, March 6, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Haleigh Poutre, now 14, was so brutally beaten more than two years ago by her adoptive parents, that she was left in a coma from which she was never expected to revive. However, she may now be well enough to testify against the man accused of assaulting her.

Haleigh has spent the last two years recovering at the Franciscan Hospital for Children near Boston. On Sept. 11, 2005, Haleigh was taken to hospital in "an unresponsive state", according to court documents. "Haleigh had both old and new bruises, old and new open cuts, several apparent weeping burns, and a CAT scan revealed a subdural hematoma [a collection of blood on the surface of the brain]."..........

Girl Once Comatose and Scheduled for Euthanasia Will Testify against Attacker

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bttt

[floriduh voter]

FYI: I was surfing on my TV last night. I paused on one of the Spanish channels, it was telemundo or univision. They are doing a SPECIAL on Terri Schiavo. I don’t know Spanish so I have no clue what they were saying in the commercial for it.

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She kept her promise and Mikey kept his.

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She never broke her promise.

Kaye O'Bara, who pledged to never leave her then-teenage daughter's side as the girl slipped into a diabetic coma 38 years ago, died at her Miami Gardens home this week -- in the same room she shared with her child, Edwarda, since 1970.

O'Bara, 80, died in her sleep. She had suffered for years from a cardiac illness that dated back to a heart attack in the early 1980s, said her niece Pamela Burdgick.

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''I always wondered why she kept it up, and one time I asked her that question,'' said Ferguson, a sports copy editor at The Miami Herald.

''She told me she saw this as a sacrifice that was worth it, and that she would always be there for Edwarda,'' he said. ``She kept her promise to the end.''................

Mom who cared for comatose daughter for 38 years dies

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In contrast,the goals of the death enthusiasts are illustrated.

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The release of Robert Latimer is one of those events that illustrate the tension between justice and mercy, a tension that in Catholic teaching places a higher emphasis on mercy than on justice.

Yet the Latimer case strains that emphasis on mercy for several reasons, the first being that the Saskatchewan farmer remains unrepentant for what he did.

Latimer killed his disabled daughter Tracy, who was born with cerebral palsy and at the age of 12 couldn't talk or walk and had the mental ability of an infant.

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Instead of 25 years, he got 10. Now, after seven, he's getting out, still unrepentant, and his supporters still maintaining he got a raw deal as they fight for an overturning of his sentence.

This is mercy carried to absurd lengths, in complete disregard to the many other Tracy Latimers in this country who become more vulnerable with each development in the doctrine of mercy run wild

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Those who favour mercy assume that Robert Latimer is the only person worthy of consideration, yet mercy, solely directed toward Latimer, necessarily entails diverting it from the disabled, whom this case leaves in a more precarious position.

Just as the deliberate killing of Terri Schiavo in the U.S. has eased public opposition to "mercy starvation," one senses that there will be broader tolerance the next time someone in Canada "mercifully ends the life" of a loved one they felt didn't have a life worth living.

In effect, decisions such as this one are helping to cement in place a new two-tier legal system: one for people who are disabled and don't benefit from the full extent of the law, and one for those who aren't.

Holding Latimer to the original sentence would have done a better job of sending the message that all Canadians' lives are worth protecting, including those of the disabled.

In the end, between justice and mercy, it's pretty clear which one is losing out.

Mercy run wild

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For three years the far left has thrown at the gullible public the fistfuls of Goebble-modeled propaganda. Shouted long and loud, they hope some of it will stick to us. "Decent Americans wanted innocent Terri killed and they abhor any who would try to save her."

Now they expand their horizons internationally, finding sympathetic kin abroad in places.

It ends with an ironic and tragic yet comic dopey platitude

Perhaps if he would have quipped, sadder Budweiser, that could be swallowed but the word "wiser" just doesn't do it.

My 2004-05 tour expanded to 14 nations. My former warm welcome turned frigid. U.S. invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, kidnappings, torture, election rigging, wiretapping, and political and economic chicanery caused shocking contrast.

Europeans saw through the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld-Powell-Rice litany of lies about WMD's, atomic bombs, staged terrorism "alerts," New Orleans' hurricane fiasco, and the sick Terry Schiavo spectacle. Most (88 percent) now viewed my country as the world's No. 1 aggressor and "terrorist." Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Denmark, then England replaced pro-American regimes. Saddam Hussein's staged trial didn't alter the picture.

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New Zealand and Australia ousted pro-American regimes. Japan and South Korea rejected pro-U.S. parties. I returned home, sadder but wiser.

Letter: Trip overseas depressing

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It’s all so sad.

[Lesforlife]

What a beautiful story!! Were it not for the murderous
Michael Schiavo, Terri’s parents would be caring for
and loving her in the same fashion, I’m certain!!

JUSTICE FOR TERRI!!

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I know how you feel.

[floriduh voter]

Barack Obama is the culture of death in his views on abortion, euthanasia and the war on terror. Of course the Senator from Iowa is right. The terrorists will celebrate in the streets if Obama wins. It’s the culture of death whether it’s got an American face or radical jihad face.

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I slam Islam

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Some cutesy stuff from the Puffington Host again...

In their fantasies about us meanies, they just can't stray too far from reminding us of that aggravation of Terri's Legacy to whatever consists of their souls.

A leftie just can't go wrong quoting Friedrich Nietzsche to make himself sound smart at least to other libs. It reminds me of the observation about the old cadaver's quote.

Friedrich Nietzsche, "God is dead."

God, "Friedrich Nietzsche is dead."

It may not have sounded so cute, but perhaps more useful if he had followed a more modern day philosophy of Rodney King.

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The German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, adopted a specific word for an emotional side effect of suppressed aspirations: ressentiment.

The slave revolt in morality begins when the ressentiment itself becomes creative and gives birth to values: the ressentiment of those beings who are prevented from a genuine reaction, that is, something active, and who compensate for that with a merely imaginary vengeance.* While all noble morality grows out of a triumphant affirmation of one's own self, slave morality from the start says "No" to what is "outside," "other," to "a not itself." And this "No" is its creative act. This transformation of the glance which confers value -- this necessary projection towards what is outer instead of back onto itself -- that is inherent in ressentiment. In order to arise, slave morality always requires first an opposing world, a world outside itself. Psychologically speaking, it needs external stimuli in order to act at all -- its action is basically reaction. The Geneaology of Morals, 1st essay, sec. 10

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Remarkably, however, the assembly line at the ressentiment factory begins to stutter. Demystified as political theater by antics like the Terry Schiavo affair and confronted by the growing realization that every one every where knows at least one quite decent person who happens to be homosexual and one extended family member in need of an abortion, the social agenda of Karl Rove evangelism loses traction...........

Obama and Clinton: Are the Times a Changing?: A Modest Proposal in Lieu of a Train Wreck: The Rhodes Campaign Part 2

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Catholic News Agency on the Schindlers...

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Bobby Schindler and Suzanne Vitadamo

Tampa, Mar 8, 2008 / 05:22 pm (CNA).- The brother and sister of Terri Schiavo are launching a radio show called “America’s Lifeline” to address and educate Americans about health care, end-of-life issues and the disabled. The show will make its debut on March 15 and will be hosted by The Healthcare Advocate, Carry Hall.

The weekly hour-long program, which is being sponsored by "Terri's Foundation", will originate from the studios of Talk Radio 860 WGUL in Tampa, FL and also be broadcast on the internet at http://860wgul.townhall.com/.

Planned topics for the show include discussion of the national healthcare situation, care for the disabled, euthanasia, doctor assisted suicide and controversial end-of-life cases.

Cary Hall, who will host the show, is also the host of a successful radio show called The Health Insurance Advocate which broadcasts from Talk Radio 710 KCMO in Kansas City, Missouri and also on Talk Radio1330 KNSS in Wichita, Kansas. Bobby Schindler and Suzanne Vitadamo, who both direct the Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation, will co-host the program with Hall.

"America's Lifeline is something we've wanted to do for some time, and with Cary Hall's health care expertise, and my family's experience trying to save Terri and now running her foundation which works to save those like Terri, we'll be able to educate Americans and raise awareness about the euthanasia movement like never before", said Suzanne Vitadamo.

The premiere of America's Lifeline is set for 3 p.m. EST on Saturday, March 15, 2008. The program is poised to expand into other Florida radio markets including Orlando and Miami.

Terri SchiavoÂ’s siblings to defend disabled with new radio show

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T'is the season for the Pontius Pilate Page...

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I had to laugh out loud when I read Kingsley Guy's recent defense of Jeb Bush in the Dueling Columnists of March 2. Would this be the same Jeb Bush who led our state down the following list of governmental debacles?

The Terri Schiavo nightmare in which he and his brother spent millions of taxpayer dollars bullying their misguided religious views into a private and painful family decision. Which was only stopped by overwhelmingly negative opinion polls and conservative judges who ruled against them.

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It has now been left to Charlie Crist to clean up the mess left by Jeb Bush's greedy supply-side administration. Much the same as the next president will have to clean up after George W. Disappointingly, it appears that Crist's tax cuts and property insurance help are evaporating faster than a small mud puddle on a sunny South Florida street....

Jeb Bush should have solved problems

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One way to go for an interview is to show yourself as a frightened little bunny, TERRIfied at us meanie terrorists. Poor kiddies may have gotten struck by a random flying prayer or such. Works with libs, I guess.

Zambito, the superintendent of Jackson-Madison County Schools, was the fourth candidate to be interviewed by the Washington County board as it searches to find a replacement for Director of Schools Grant Rowland. She brings with her a wealth of educational knowledge, having begun her career as a teacher assistant in Tavares, Fla., in 1965.

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"During my time as deputy superintendent in Pinellas County, the Terri Schiavo case was happening not two blocks from one of our schools," Zambito said.

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"That posed a huge problem for us," Zambito said. "We were looking at moving that school to another building because of the terrorist threats coming into the area because of the protests...........

Zambito interviews for East Tenn. schools job

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When I said on television to the likes of Orly Salinas and the media circus that Florida would be punished, I didn’t know it would be LITERALLY punished. I never actually found the time to start an organized boycott... May the bureaucrats that let Terri die, realize that what happens to one happens to us all.

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See my last post.

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These people vote...

“I get it from both ends of the (political) spectrum,” he responded. “Last Thursday (Feb. 28), I was on Air America. The host accused us of being nothing but a Trojan horse, concerned with nothing but trying to beat Hillary. Two hours later, I was on Laura Ingraham’s show, where I was told I wasn’t a real Republican.”

I interrupted: “So what you’d say when Ingraham said that?”

“I told her she was the one who wasn’t a Republican, that she and others like her had given up the core of the party with this cultural/socialism kick they’ve been on; making personal decisions about people’s private lives, from the FCC’s ruling on Howard Stern to Congressional intrusion in the Terri Schiavo case. All she could say at that point was that I must be liberal because I teach at a university. But people like Laura Ingraham have basically paid for their houses and cars by feeding on the fear and division of the American people. Partisanship is not the end-all, be-all of our existence. Obama, at least, seems to recognize that.”......

Clearly Not Any Other Year

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