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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PERFECT response!!!

[Dante3]

A much needed amendment and would reduce horrific abuse. Before I became aware of Terri's case, I would have taken for granted that Haleigh's stepfather or the sadistic Michael Schiavo would never have been granted guardianship - that is demented.

[floriduh voter]

Chain Gang Charlie made sure that Terri was surrounded. He’s tough on everybody UNLESS THEY ARE BIG FUNDRAISERS or LIBERALS.

[floriduh voter]

McCain: American Tragedy? It was A MURDER BY JUDICIAL FIAT. He can’t step on the judiciary’s toes though so don’t expect McCain to ever stand up to WRONG, ACTIVIST JUDGES.

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Reflections on Hastert and conservatives...

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While many issues Americans cared about remained trapped in congressional disputes, Hastert and DeLay made a point of pursuing legislation that was of great concern to the conservative base but either could not pass the Senate or was of little interest to the broader electorate. How out of step they could sometimes be was illustrated by efforts to intervene in the case of Terry Schiavo, who was determined by multiple doctors and courts to be in a persistent vegetative state, although her family disagreed with the diagnosis. State courts sided with her husband and his desire to allow her to die. Congress tried to reverse the ruling by forcing the issue into federal courts. The federal courts wouldn't play along, however, and embarrassed Congress by chiding it for  overstepping its bounds.

As the disconnect between GOP leadership and public priorities grew, so did voter anger and mistrust. Hastert quit the leadership after the party's loss a year and half ago and resigned in mid-term. But it seems apparent with the demoralizing loss of Hastert's seat, Denny's seat, that the woes he helped heap on his party may go on a lot longer. Especially if conservatives and GOP leaders display no understanding of how they got in this fix in the first place.

Conservatives on the Edge

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Big of them...

Thread by wagglebee.

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A leading pro-abortion group has said it will not oppose a bill that will help reduce the number of abortions on babies who are potentially afflicted with Down Syndrome. The measure has already received approval from a Senate committee and is headed to the full chamber for a debate and vote.

Last month, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee approved the Pre-natally and Post-natally Diagnosed Conditions Awareness Act on a unanimous vote.......

Pro-Abortion Group Won't Oppose Bill Reducing Abortions on Disabled Babies

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Libs tend to be selective by nature...

Thread by wagglebee.

Conservative voters long for another Ronald Reagan as president and his deeply felt pro-life views are still alluring to pro-life people long after his administration. Pro-life advocates always felt Reagan was "one of us" and understood their passion to protect unborn children -- but some revisionist historians would like nothing more than to confuse the record.

By misrepresenting President Reagan's abortion record, these historians can confuse and divide the grassroots pro-life community and make it more difficult to rally around future presidential candidate.

Florida State University associate professor of history Michael Creswell is the latest to engage in the practice............

Revisionist History: Misrepresenting President Ronald Reagan's Abortion Record

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This article from Life News is in a separate thread by wagglebee. Perhaps it reveals a bit about this presidential candidate chosen for us by the elites.

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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Presidential candidate John McCain addressed the debate over Terri Schiavo's euthanasia death but added little to his position other than to call the ordeal "very sad." His comments are the first since Barack Obama came under intense criticism saying he regretted supporting a bill to help her family prevent her ex-husband from killing her.

McCain addressed the debate over the disabled woman during a campaign stop last week the corporate headquarters of Chick-fil-A restaurant.

In a brief news conference following the event, Baptist Press reports that McCain called the entire situation relating to Terri "very sad" and a "great American tragedy."

"It's very sad when you see a situation such as this, it's very sad," McCain explained.

"I think just by looking at the situation it was a terrible situation and one that probably the state should have handled in retrospect," he added, according to Baptist Press. "[I]t was a very sad, sad situation and moved all of us who are -- and the plight of this situation moved every American."...................

John McCain Addresses Terri Schiavo Debate After Barack Obama's Flip-Flop

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Dobson frames the future direction of Christian leadership in terms of Terri...

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With a generation of U.S. Christian right leaders dead or aging, the founder of the conservative evangelical group Focus on the Family says he's concerned about the movement's future leadership.

James Dobson told a group of Christian broadcasters Tuesday night that the passing of Jerry Falwell, the Rev. D. James Kennedy and Ruth Bell Graham represent the end of an era.

The radio talk show host noted that others like Billy Graham, Chuck Colson, Pat Robertson, and Chuck Swindoll will also soon pass from the scene, and questioned the impact on the conservative Christian church.

"It causes me to wonder who will be left to carry the banner when this generation of leaders is gone," Dobson told an audience of nearly 1,400 at the National Religious Broadcasters conference.

"The question is, Will the younger generation heed the call? Who will defend the unborn child in the years to come? Who will plead for the Terri Schiavos of the world? Who's going to fight for the institution of marriage, which is on the ropes today."

Schiavo died in 2005 after being removed from a feeding tube in a high-profile battle between the woman's husband and her parents and siblings.

Dobson's comments come as national groups like the Christian Coalition are struggling, and the organizational muscle of the movement now rests with local pastors, not national figures...........

Dobson: Who will take up religious-right banner?

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Here comes Dr. Death again, reinvigorated after his punishment for mass murder and serving a token of time in debt to society. Perhaps he even got a letter of reprimand for it.

Thread by Aussie Dasher. Thanks to The Sarce for the ping. I wonder what kinds of interest the thread will attract.

ASSISTED-SUICIDE advocate Jack Kevorkian, whose controversial tactics earned him the nickname Doctor Death, plans to run for the US Congress.

"We need some honesty and sincerity instead of corrupt government in Washington," Dr Kevorkian said when announcing his bid to his hometown newspaper in Michigan, the Oakland Press.

Dr Kevorkian, who spent more than eight years in jail for the murder of a man whose videotaped assisted suicide was aired on national television, claims he actively helped 130 people die...........

'Dr Death' to run for US Congress

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[wagglebee]

Did you see that we also had some visitors on the thread that seem to think that Florida did the right thing executing Terri?

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Barack Obama came under intense criticism saying he regretted supporting a bill to help her family prevent her ex-husband from killing her.

So, he supported hino killing her? Chalking up another mark against Hussein. Would someone please post how Washington voted on the bill, please.

[floriduh voter]

I’m outta here until the trolls that came to FR to post on Terri threads for their deathaversary reveling are zotted. They are agitators, a step up from disruptors. see ya, floriduh voter

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It is inevitable that trolls and bot flies will buzz around Terri related threads especially around their second halloween, but they are staying away from Terri Dailies. I don’t expect much here except maybe an uninformed or two, a disgruntled or bad hair day type.

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The McCain Scrutiny...

I have posted my personal opinions on this guy before, sometimes salted with profanity, and offer this as a news item because of the source. We retort, you divide...

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With the Republican nominee for president settled at this point in the primary season and either Democratic nominee being totally anti-life and pro-abortion to a degree not even seen in the 1992 election, pro-life advocates and people of common sense need to seriously consider the stakes of the 2008 Presidential Race as it applies to the unborn, the elderly, and the medically dependent and disabled.

Granted there are those who consider Senator John McCain's recent votes on the funding of embryonic stem cell research to be a serious problem and will demand that he reverse himself before they agree to support him for president. This issue has been a concern and I have discussed the subject personally with the Senator on more than one occasion. I have asked him to realize that these are unborn human beings, to examine the recent breakthroughs in the field and to understand the scientific and moral significance of these latest trends. While he has not come completely around, it is my hope that his staff has and will continue to provide him with the latest information so that he can fully appreciate our position. I suspect that as he and his team study the issue they will realize that the pro-life position is correct and will embrace that position fully. There has been some progress as seen in his statement on the campaign website. It recognizes the serious moral questions involved and the need to respect human life. The important news is that leaders in the pro-life community have an open door to discuss the subject and that the Senator knows we are about what is in the best interests of the nation and the nation's children.

We all know the Senator's pro-life voting record. Here are some highlights.

1. He supports reversal of Roe v. Wade.
2. He opposes funding for pro-abortion groups such as Planned Parenthood.
3. He has supported the Hyde Amendment to prevent taxpayers' funds from being used to pay for abortions.
4. He has supported the Mexico City Policy as applied to preventing pro-abortion groups from using federal funds overseas to promote abortion.
5. He supported and recently co-sponsored an amendment to a Senate health bill to permanently prevent federal funds from being used to perform abortions in Indian hospitals. This amendment recently passed the Senate 52-42.
6. He supported the Unborn Victims of Violence Act.
7. He voted for and co-sponsored the Federal Abortion Ban.
8. He voted in support of parental consent and notification laws.
9. He voted in favor of Supreme Court and appellate court judges who would view the Constitution as respecting the right to life.
10. He has repeatedly voted to prohibit the District of Columbia from using federal funds or any taxpayer funds to provide abortion services.

These are just some of the major points in his 24 year record. McCain is also on record as voting to save the life of Terri Schiavo, a vote Barack Obama has publicly regretted. I will speak to that comment on another message.

The National Abortion Rights League has given McCain a 0% rating. They refer to his voting record as "solidly anti-choice." In fact when you read what NARAL has to say, you ask why is there any controversy on the pro-life side. Would that the rest of the Senate would vote this way on pro-life issues.

Now one must also acknowledge that as pro-lifers we have disagreed with him on such issues as campaign finance reform, especially as applied to grass roots organizations. Still, even in disagreement, our conversations ( by this I mean Arizona pro-life leaders and McCain) have been frank and respectful. We have stated our concerns and our areas of disapproval. I would expect that relationship to continue.

In today's news the McCain Campaign announced a list of Catholics who make up the Catholics for McCain National Steering Committee. Senator Sam Brownback, Governor Frank Keating, Deal Hudson, Austin Ruse, Tom Monaghan, and many other very well known Catholics are a part of this national steering committee. You will even find a lawyer from Arizona who has agreed to serve in that capacity. It is now time for all of us who are serious about protecting the small gains that we have made to make sure that the abortion industry does not take over the White House.

When Bill Clinton ran for president in 1992, he told the American people that he thought abortion should be "{safe, legal and rare." Just check out Jill Stanek's recent column on what that really meant.You will reminded of the terrible acts that Clinton committed against the unborn.

The bottom line is that a democrat in the White House, whether it is Obama or Hillary would be a disaster to the unborn children, to the medically dependent and disabled and to those who are vulnerable, whether they are the elderly or the infirm or the next Terri Schiavo. IF WE CARE about those potential situations, we must insure the election of John McCain.

The U.S. Supreme Court will have at least one and probably three vacancies during the next president's term of office. IF WE CARE about who will sit on the Supreme Court AND the courts of appeals throughout the country, we must work for the election of John McCain.

The pressure by the left to have a universal health care funded by the taxpayer will not let up. Hillary tried it in 1993. In her 1993 plan was an abortion mandate to have taxpayer funded abortions. It would also mean managed care and that could mean passive or even active euthanasia.A Clinton or Obama presidency would see the end of the Hyde Amendment to the annual appropriations bill. The passage of the Hyde Amendment has been responsible for saving the lives of over a million unborn children. IF YOU CARE about protecting these millions of unborn children, as well as your right to private health care, your right to select your own doctors and insurance plans, and your right not to have your tax dollars paying for a million abortions, then we must work for the election of John McCain.

In the end, we have two choices. One of them may not result in everything we want in a president (although he may surprise you), the other will insure the death of children and the end of much of what we have accomplished over these last 35 years. For unlike our efforts which are about restoring protection for all innocent human life, the pro-abortion industry is not content with just keeping abortion legal. The abortion industry wants to force government and therefore the taxpayer to pay for abortions. The abortion industry wants Catholic hospitals to provide abortions. And the abortion industry wants to punish all those who will not be silent about this holocaust. Remember how the abortion industry relentlessly for 20 years went after our friend Joe Scheidler. do you seriously think if they get into power, they will not use the power of government to destroy the pro-life pregnancy centers and the network of pro-life medical clinics throughout the country. does anyone remember the now New York governor and former attorney general Elliot Spitzer and how he tried to shut down the pregnancy centers in New York? Pro-lifers successfully fought that government attack. Interesting that the attacks came right after the election of Bill Clinton to the White House. Years later when there were women injured by the abortion industry, Spizter was nowhere it be found.

Right now Elliot Spitzer has some of his own problems.

So my friends and fellow pro-life activists, the choice is clear.

Choose life. Choose John McCain.

Cross-posted: Jakubczyk on Life

Choosing Life - Choosing McCain

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Perhaps we can all sit back and enjoy buttered popcorn and a beverage and just watch the implosion of colliding liberal values. It helps to recall that liberals project their own biases, hates and fears onto their perceived enemies, and sometimes it is their own. The frightening collision is like a freeway at rush hour in dense fog. It just keeps slamming.

Here, good old Hillary just didn't fight hard enough to have Terri killed.

I'm not sure whether this writer means Hill or Hell, but I guess one of them is freezing over.

Of course, it doesn't. The fact is, some of the most incisive feminist writers and effective feminist activists - people like Katha Pollitt, Frances Kissling and Eve Ensler, among many others - are backing Obama. The late Molly Ivins - a fiercely progressive, genuinely populist Texan in her 60s - spelled out her opposition to Clinton in January of 2006, in a column bluntly titled "I will not support Hillary Clinton for president". "Enough. Enough triangulation, calculation and equivocation. Enough clever straddling, enough not offending anyone," she wrote. "This is not a Dick Morris election. Sen. Clinton is apparently incapable of taking a clear stand on the war in Iraq, and that alone is enough to disqualify her. Her failure to speak out on Terri Schiavo, not to mention that gross pandering on flag-burning, are just contemptible little dodges.".........

Hell hath no fury

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Because of the source, Washington .com Post, or whatever, I can only do a teensie excerpt. Be sure to read the whole thing. I feel bad for Eleanore Clift and her loss as I see her book being used as a counter weight by cronies on the left, an attempt to balance from the left, the heavy truth of the right, Terri's Legacy. That is a problem anyway with the left. As they love mirrors, and they show their image is just as pretty as what is reflected, they fail to account for the reality it is only an image and an opposite in every way. So here it is with the expected distortions of reality from imperfect prism.

We all remember that brain-damaged woman who was exhibited -- flaunted might be a better word -- on our television screens, the same set of clips over and over, of a vacant-eyed, sweet-faced female who'd been in what some people called a persistent vegetative state for 15 years. Poor Terri Schiavo. Her husband, Michael, wanted to remove her life-support systems, but her parents would have none of it. They took Michael to court and accused him of every crime in the book. Then, as we all remember, the politicians got wind of this drama, and a particularly awful kind of hell broke loose. Every opportunist in the land (or so it seemed) elbowed rudely for a place in front of the television cameras. Every imaginable kind of distasteful behavior took place outside Terri Schiavo's Florida hospice, and the news media were more than happy to oblige, because the public couldn't stop watching. It was a shame and a disgrace on every possible level. And because she is a contributing editor of Newsweek and a panelist on "The McLaughlin Group," Eleanor Clift was a part of it........

A Personal Loss, a National Shame

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I’m outta here until the trolls that came to FR to post on Terri threads for their deathaversary reveling are zotted. They are agitators, a step up from disruptors. see ya, floriduh voter

FV, PLEASE stay (at least on the Terri Dailies thread), we need you to help us tell people the truth about what really happened.

I have long since stopped caring what these deathbot bastards think or say about me, I know what side I am on and I know what side they are on.

Here are a few quotes by Holocaust Survivor and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Elie Wiesel that I have long found comforting:

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference."

"Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil."

"I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."

"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest."

"Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe."

And we must ALWAYS find comfort in these words:

31 And when the Son of man shall come in his majesty, and all the angels with him, then shall he sit upon the seat of his majesty. 32 And all nations shall be gathered together before him, and he shall separate them one from another, as the shepherd separateth the sheep from the goats: 33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on his left. 34 Then shall the king say to them that shall be on his right hand: Come, ye blessed of my Father, possess you the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. 35 For I was hungry, and you gave me to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and you took me in:

36 Naked, and you covered me: sick, and you visited me: I was in prison, and you came to me. 37 Then shall the just answer him, saying: Lord, when did we see thee hungry, and fed thee; thirsty, and gave thee drink? 38 And when did we see thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and covered thee? 39 Or when did we see thee sick or in prison, and came to thee? 40 And the king answering, shall say to them: Amen I say to you, as long as you did it to one of these my least brethren, you did it to me.
-- Matthew 5:31-40

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I think pro-lifers are kidding themselves if they think that McCain will be any better on issues that matter to us than Hillary or Obama would be. No matter which of these three is elected, Soros et.al. will be pulling the strings and implementing the same culture of death agenda. I hope I am proved wrong should he be elected.

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Announcement from the Foundation for any who can tune in!

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March 14, 2008

Please remember to tune into the debut of America's Lifeline which begins Saturday, March 15, on Talk Radio 860 WGUL at 3pm, Eastern time.

The purpose of this program is to educate Americans about their health care rights and to give them the tools they need to protect themselves, and loved ones who may be sick or disabled, from the threat of euthanasia.

America's Lifeline will also be streamed worldwide via the internet at Talk Radio 860 WGUL. The program is poised to expand into other Florida radio markets including Orlando and Miami with the option of expanding further throughout the nation in the future.

America's Lifeline is co-hosted by Bobby Schindler and Suzanne Vitadamo, directors of the Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation and brother and sister of Terri Schiavo. This Saturday’s guest will be Brother Paul O’Donnell of the Franciscan Brothers of Peace. Brother Paul is a national speaker on euthanasia and difficult life issues.

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