Terri Schiavo's Family Calls for Observance of Terri's Day to Honor Disabled Woman

Life News ^ | 3/31/08 | Steven Ertelt

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St. Petersburg, FL (LifeNews.com) -- Terri Schiavo's family and a leading pro-life group are calling on people to honor the disabled woman whose husband took her life in a painful euthanasia death. Together with Priests for Life, the Schindler family has established the observance of “Terri’s Day” each March 31.

That's the day Terri succumbed to a 13-day starvation and dehydration death at the hand of Michael Schiavo, her former husband who won a court order to take her life.

“This third anniversary should be an occasion for all of us to both remember the injustice done to Terri, and reach out to others with prayer and concrete action when they need the kind of help Terri needed," Terri's brother Bobby Schindler told LifeNews.com on Monday.

Suzanne Vitadamo, Terri’s sister, added that Terri's Day is also a way for her family to encourage others to take better care of the elderly and disabled.

“Our family continues to be consoled and uplifted by the many ways in which people honor my sister, learn from her story, and grow in compassion for all the disabled," she said.

During the days leading up to Terri's death, Father Frank Pavone of Priests for Life brought comfort and peace to the Schindler family.

Father Pavone was present for the final prayer Terri participated in before her death. He also saw the manipulative ways Michael tried to prevent the Schindler family from caring for her or being present with her during the starvation and dehydration.

“Terri’s death was not the end of her fight," he told LifeNews.com. "It was the beginning of a new chapter in the pro-life movement."

"I call upon all those who were moved by Terri’s death to continue their courageous activism in the cause of life, and never to be silent," he said.

Together, Priests for Life and the Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation encourage churches, families, organizations and individuals to observe Terri’s Day with prayers, memorial services, educational activities and community outreach.

Related web sites:
Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation - http://www.terrisfight.org
Priests for Life - http://www.priestsforlife.org

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She keeps up the fight. Thread by wagglebee.

Memphis, TN (LifeNews.com) -- As Americans honor the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the fortieth anniversary of his assassination, his niece says abortion has become the civil rights cause of today. Dr. Alveda King , who has suffered from multiple abortions, says the destruction of human life is on par with the lack of civil rights of her uncle's generation.

In a speech at a church in downtown Memphis, King noted how her uncle was killed on this day in 1968.

But a short five years later the Supreme Court opened the floodgates to unlimited abortions in the Roe v. Wade decision -- one that King says has decimated the nation and the black community in particular.....

Martin Luther King Jr.'s Niece Says Abortion is the New Civil Rights Cause

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PP Perps are knocking 'em dead...

Thread by wagglebee.

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A further examination of the new annual report Planned Parenthood recently released finds the abortion business is still the largest in the United States. As in previous years, the number of abortions it does has gone up and roughly 25 percent of all abortions in the United States are done at Planned Parenthood centers.

The report shows that Planned Parenthood did 289,750 abortions, an increase over the 264,943 abortions it did during the 2005-2006 fiscal year....

Planned Parenthood Report: More Abortions, Fewer Adoptions and Prenatal Care

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If I’m not mistaken, most of those 19 “judges” were appointed
by republicans.

Don’t buy the lie that we have to vote for McCain so he can
appoint good judges.

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Union again and the bioethics topic...

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SCHENECTADY -- The biggest moral and ethical questions of tomorrow may be answered someday by the students visiting Union College this weekend.

More than 150 bioethics students have gathered at the college for the National Undergraduate Bioethics Conference. It's the first time the conference has been held at a liberal arts school rather than a large university.

"It's a growing field," said Tod Chambers, president of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities and a speaker at the conference.

About a dozen bioethics master's programs have been launched across the nation, including one at Union College, which partnered with Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and another at Albany Medical College's Alden March Bioethics Institute.

Chambers called bioethics the "advice industry." Many hospitals have a staff bioethicist to navigate thorny issues such as end-of-life decisions, organ transplants and decision-making by next of kin.

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Baker noted the general public enjoys a good bioethics debate as well. News stories about human cloning, genetically engineered food and end-of-life cases like Terri Schiavo capture everyone's attention. "This society is fascinated by these subjects," Baker said. Cathleen F. Crowley can be reached at 454-5348 or by e-mail at ccrowley@timesunion.com.

Bioethics put in focus at Union College conference

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What is happening? What has happened? Am I missing something? Seeing nothing in the news, I go to her website, Life for Lauren updates
and find no updates!

Have all the good people gone limp in our arms? Has something happened that is not reported? I for one am greatly disturbed about the lack of news we receive on the status of Lauren Richardson at the mercy of those who would kill her. Each day we check, and each day is blank, as if the media happily turned a blind eye so their allies on the death circuit can work their craft in peace. Somebody please show me I am wrong. I would be glad to be wrong.

There is no news, I might suppose, because a sort-of cease fire exists, the frail hopes of her supporters that maybe the law and justice will sometimes be on their side if all is quiet. We need look no further than the Israel-Palestine conflict to realize cease fire is the opportunity of the adversary to work quietly in the background undisturbed, while those hoping for the best sit by to be outflanked. It is a normal tendency for people of good will to ascribe the same emotions of decency to an adversary that has none. The adversary snickers at this foolish notion and carries on. We see it in the Middle East on large scale and we see it on an individual basis whenever we confront those who would have us killed.

Silence on Lauren's status works only to the advantage of those who would kill her and just doesn't work for people of good will. Evil minds don't think the same. They respond to force only, and must be driven from their prey. Anything less they treat with contempt as weakness.

I do hope our people of good will who would rescue Lauren will shout out the injustice and drive the jackals from their prey. That is an easy one to picture, approaching a pack of jackals about to feast on a wounded young antelope, and "hoping" they will respond with the same compassion we have, and just go away.

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A deeper look into eugenics in a thread by wagglebee...

Kevles began the lecture by reflecting on the massive leaps scientists have made in the name of biology and genetic research. Given the success of the human genome project, where scientists map each gene in the human DNA strand, and the booming biotech industry, he predicted that eugenics could re-emerge as a possibility, and commenced a review of how eugenics emerged in American society in the early 1900s, and the human rights violations that came with it.

"Eugenics was not unique to the Nazis," he said. "It could and did happen virtually everywhere."

The surprising thing about the movement, according to Kevles, was how strongly it was picked up by the scientific community of the time. It was supported by many prominent doctors, psychologists and biologists of the period, many of whom found a home in Connecticut......

Yale Professor Explores History Of Eugenics

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An application of cognitive dissonance...

I am appalled at how the liberal left, especially liberal blacks can entertain the notion of PP being their friends. What would the Obama Nation say? Thread by Diago. Thanks, Diago, Blue_Ridge_Mtn_Geek, narses, for the ping.

Los Angeles, CA (LifeNews.com) -- A second report from a student-run magazine at UCLA finds more Planned Parenthood abortion businesses accepting overtly racist donations. After the first report showed a Planned Parenthood in Idaho accepting money from someone who wanted to reduce the number of black babies, centers in Oklahoma and New Mexico followed suit......

More Planned Parenthood Abortion Businesses Accept Overtly Racist Donations

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Thread by Coleus...

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American Life League's National Pro-Life T-shirt Day is Tuesday, April 29 — a day for pro-lifers all across the country to support of the sanctity of human beings' lives by wearing pro-life shirts. Join thousands nationwide by showing everyone that we are the majority — that we are a strong and determined voice for the babies............
 

American Life League's, National Pro-Life T-shirt Day is Tuesday, April 29, 2008

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Silence on Lauren's status works only to the advantage of those who would kill her and just doesn't work for people of good will.

This is getting scarier by the day.

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Lauren Richardson update...

May the good guys pray, yes, and may they also fortify with the armor in their faith and resolve granted by Our Lord and drive the jackals away, defend this child of God from the evil which would destroy her. May we all pray today for that.

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email...

Hi Leslie, We have been preparing for a mediation that is taking place tomorrow, April 7th, between Lauren's parents. I think we need prayer in power all day tomorrow.

Thank you
Melissa Richardson

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I regret we may only excerpt this work by Nat Hentoff as reported in the Washington Times...

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While there was still a chance to save the life of the cognitively disabled Terri Schiavo — who was not terminal and was responding — her family started the Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation to try to keep her alive. But the courts, aided by the careless media, sentenced her to death. Denied water and food, Terri was officially executed And most of the press continues to report that this was a just decision.

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As funds are raised to implement these programs in a society also facing increased rationing of health care, with more lives that will be considered too "costly" to continue, Bobby Schindler is an energetic presence on college campuses around this nation, while lecturing abroad to expose the practitioners of "the culture of death." On one of his journeys, he spoke at Castle Hartheim, a center of killing unworthy lives in Linz, Austria during the Nazis' T4 euthanasia program. It is now a memorial site to remind visitors of such ongoing crimes against humanity.

Securing the right to live

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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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Recent threads on this French woman revealed many even here on FreeRepublic so horrified at how she "looked", in knee-jerk response they expressed outrage at how we could dare to deny that woman her "right-to-die". Now as Paul Harvey would say, "the rest of the story...

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Paris, France (LifeNews.com) -- The French woman Chantal Sebire who is at the heart of an international debate over euthanasia, refused medical treatment for her condition. Sebire wanted help to take her own life because she had a rare sinus tumor that was ravaging her face and she unsuccessfully pressed for France to allow the practice.

However, a new report in Time magazine finds the woman refused medical help for her condition for almost five years.

According to the American news magazine, Sebire's refusal to obtain medical treatment allowed the tumor to evolve into a terminal phase that ultimately prompted her to pursue an assisted suicide.

"From the moment she refused surgical treatment, growth of the tumors to their ultimate terminal phase was a given," Jean-Louis B'al of the University Hospital Center in Dijon told the magazine.

He said he repeatedly advised Sebire to undergo treatment and said three hospitals offered her a surgery.

"For years she refused the medical community's help to master her disease, and later to limit its evolution and pain," B'al noted. "Then, towards the end, she demanded the medical community help her die using the same sort of medicine she'd rejected as treatment."

Doctors indicated the extremely rare esthesioneuroblastoma disease the French woman suffered from could have been controlled by removing it surgically after the initial detection.

Afterwards, she could have gone on to lead a relatively normal life -- but Time says Sebire refused an operation and subsequently turned down any palliative care or medications to help her combat pain.

Although her case prompted a debate in France about whether to legalize the grisly practice, her situation is significantly different than that of Terri Schiavo, the disabled woman whose husband won the right from a court to take her life by subjecting her to a painful starvation and dehydration death.

In Terri's case, her family desperately desired to provide her with both appropriate medical care and rehabilitative treatment.

Last month, after learning that she would not be allowed an assisted suicide, Sebire died of a self-induced overdose of narcotic drugs in what appeared to be a suicide.

French Woman at Center of Euthanasia Case Refused Treatment for Five Years

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Foundation website...

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This week, Bobby Schindler will address students at Villanova University, the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, Princeton University and the University of Notre Dame.

Since Terri’s deliberate and horrific death on March 31, 2005, Bobby and other members of the Schindler family have been invited to speak in nearly 150 cities across the United States and internationally, as well. The Schindlers have dedicated their lives to helping family’s, educating the public and raising awareness not only about the misinformation that continues regarding Terri’s situation, but also about the ongoing threat of euthanasia against the tens of thousands of others with disabilities similar to Terri's.

If you would like to attend any of these events, or have any questions, please contact Terri’s Foundation or go to www.terrisfight.org.

Terri Schiavo's Brother to Speak at Three Top Universities, Medical School

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The light of truth penetrates some darkness. Thread by wagglebee.

As his mother talks, the little boy chews on her speech and wows the crowd with his bright eyes. He is 8 months old now.

“This is a baby who would not be here if not for the Pregnancy Center,” says Chris Ward, a counselor.

Indeed, his mother tells the audience of 300 at a banquet to celebrate the Parkland Pregnancy Resource Center that she had scheduled an abortion for the very day she went to the Farmington facility.

“I was an alcoholic and taking drugs and I did not believe in abortion, but I did not know I had other options,” she said. “At the center, I saw my baby on an ultrasound and he became real to me.” ....

Moms, dads and babies say thanks (Pro-Life Pregnancy Center)

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Reminds me of Roberta Flack's "Killing me softly..."

Thread on Rice by TitansAFC with thanks to narses.

WASHINGTON, March 14, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in a candid interview with The Washington Times Friday expressed her position on abortion as “mildly pro-choice.”

Asked, “Are you pro-life? Are you pro-choice? What is your thought on abortion?”, Rice responded: “I believe if you go back to 2000, when I helped the president in the campaign, I said that I was, in effect, kind of Libertarian on this issue, and meaning by that that I have been concerned about a government role in this issue. I'm a strong proponent of parental choice, of parental notification. I'm a strong proponent of a ban on late-term abortion. These are all things that I think unite people and I think that that's where we should be. I've called myself at times mildly pro-choice...

Abortion Position of Condoleezza Rice – US Secretary of State (Pro-Choice)

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There is some more on that from this thread last week:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1995114/posts

One of the deathbots was still trying to get people to put emotion ahead of facts.

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It has been helping me understand how such liberals think by contemplating how they approach fantasy and reality. We have seen ads on TV, for instance, the one with the guy not having his usual dreams about Abe Lincoln and a beaver. In our dreams and nightmares, we can meld the most incongruous into a scene which makes sense so long as we dream. But when we are awake, it was just a dream. I wonder if such liberals really confuse their fantasies with reality, hence, see emotions as truth replacements, keep diametrically opposing thoughts side by side, and comprehend no conflict.

That way, their fantasy becomes their reality, and symbols replace facts shaping our own reality. I watched with fascination on tv the scene in London of a demonstrator struggling to extinguish the Olympic flame torch. Protectors defended it with unbridled fury. Nobody was about to harm that symbol. Our reality of killings and slaughter was one thing, but don’t dare touch the symbol. That is their reality.

Only the state of awake escapes them. A woman with a horrible tumor triggers that emotion sans reason, as would a baby seal or other weepy thoughts, but reality is a rude shock to them. This fantasy world explains projection, it explains cognitive dissonance, and explains the sickness of leftist thought. What we have left is the cause of this disease and I think I have a clue on that one.

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I will be the first to admit that I was shocked when I first saw pictures of her face, but then the more I read, the more it became obvious that she had refused all treatment.

Obviously there is no such thing as “good” cancer, but as far as cancer goes her’s was among the most treatable. Not only did she not have to die, she never had to look disfigured. This was her choice and it was no doubt influenced by people who really didn’t give a damn about anything other than their own evil agenda.

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But, see... You reasoned. A lib would emote.

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Funny I should mention the Olympic torch as a symbol of a symbol just upthread. Note this thread by Red in Blue PA and also note the post in #16, but not #15, of course.

(CNN) -- The Olympic torch has been extinguished by officials and put on a bus during the Paris leg of its relay amid anti-China protests, The Associated Press has reported. The incident came one day after anti-Chinese demonstrators made its journey through London more like running the gauntlet than a journey of celebration.

An anti-China protester is restrained by French police before Monday's Olympic torch relay begins in Paris.........

Olympic torch extinguished during Paris leg

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