Let Lauren Live!

ChristtheKingMaine ^ | May 7, 2008 | Judie Brown

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LAUREN RICHARDSON - YOU CAN HELP!
By Judie Brown

It has been a source of ongoing sadness to read of the difficulties Lauren Richardson’s father has had over the course of the past several months. For those of you who are not familiar with her case, Lauren overdosed on heroin on August 28, 2006. She suffered oxygen deprivation and, as a result of the overdose, is now in a coma and unable to speak out for herself. At the time of the overdose, Lauren was expecting a baby. Her parents honored what they knew would have been her wish and did all they could to keep her healthy and comfortable until the child was born. Today, though Lauren may not be aware of it, she is the mother of Ember Grace, who was born in February 2007.

Since the birth of her daughter, Lauren remains unable to speak of her concerns, but she has a loving father who is doing all he can to protect her from suffering the same fate as Terri Schiavo. However, Lauren’s mother, who has been named her legal guardian, is sadly not of the same opinion and is working with attorneys to pressure the courts to permit Lauren’s starvation.

Lauren’s father has kept hope alive, even at times when there appeared to be no hope in human terms. Lauren’s father is a man of hope in Christ and is dedicated to spending every breath he has on defending Lauren, regardless of what it might cost him in physical exhaustion and worldly goods. The most recent update for those concerned about Lauren tells us the following:

We struggle at times as we seek to share with the public the details of what is happening with Lauren because of the disagreement we have with Lauren’s mother. We cannot understand her reasoning in refusing a path of hope, healing and restoration for Lauren and insisting on causing her death by withholding food and water from her. The issue in Lauren’s case is the eternal truth that all people, no matter what their medical condition, bear the image of God and deserve basic care and an opportunity to be restored to health.

Bobby Schindler, Terri Schiavo’s brother, has written about Lauren in an editorial earlier this year, "False Compassion," and is working closely with Lauren’s father in order to provide expertise that he is uniquely qualified to share during a trying time like this.

There are many links on the Life for Lauren web site that will assist you in tracking this case and learning who is supporting Lauren’s ongoing care and who is opposing it. More importantly, there is something you can do to express your concerns.

ACTION NEEDED NOW

The governor of Delaware, Ruth Ann Minner, is being asked by pro-life Americans across this nation to intervene in this case in order to save Lauren from what many fear is an imminent court order dictating that Lauren be starved and dehydrated to death. I am asking you to be one of those who communicates your passionate belief that Lauren’s life is sacred and deserves to be protected from those who would order her death. The governor’s e-mail address is governor.minner@state.de.us.

Further, it would mean a great deal to Lauren’s father, Randy, if you sent him a copy of your e-mail to Governor Ruth Ann Minner. Randy’s e-mail address is Lifeforlauren@aol.com. 

During a recent visit to Anchorage, Alaska where Bobby Schindler was invited to speak, he told a reporter from The Catholic Anchor, "Once we accept that killing is an acceptable answer to human suffering, we lose any type of parameters. Euthanasia is a form of abandonment. It is not compassion."

Truer words were never spoken. As I frequently tell people who argue that we pro-lifers are being heartless and cruel for fighting to defend the rights of a "hopeless case," "God is the author of every human being’s life, and He has never given permission to a single one of us to arbitrarily rob another human being of life for any reason including disability or illness."

As Flannery O’Connor once wrote on the subject of false compassion, "In the absence of faith, we govern by tenderness. And tenderness leads to the gas chamber."

Lauren Richardson is not terminal – she is severely disabled. Lauren Richardson should not be murdered.

Judie Brown is president of American Life League and a member of the Pontifical Academy for Life.

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Involving the rules of opposites and projection, the libs in their fantasies that they are intellectual ooze that same old pattern, haters calling people they hate haters.

In this instance, they declare emotional spasm as logic and science.

Charo identified a common thread running through the concerns of all the participants: the dilemma of basing policy on “truth,” when politicians can manipulate the concept into something that no longer resembles the truth of scientists. “Scientists talk in terms of hypotheses and probabilities,” she pointed out, whereas “politics and law tends to move on the assumption that the case is ‘X’ and we need to base a policy on it.” But troubles arise over who gets to own that truth, she said. In light of the inherent uncertainly of science, she explained, the United States has seen the difference in the treatment of truth used to delay necessary policies, as in the case of global warming. She also pointed to political manipulations of truth that have been used to “justify absolute falsehoods” as in the case of the Terri Schiavo controversy and battles over reproductive rights. She added that “nationally, we’ve seen it blurring the definition of science in the continued attempts to introduce creationism and so-called ‘Intelligent Design’ into the school system.”....

Putting Science Back on the Agenda

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Involving the rules of opposites and projection, the libs in their fantasies that they are intellectual ooze that same old pattern, haters calling people they hate haters.

In this instance, they declare emotional spasm as logic and science.

Charo identified a common thread running through the concerns of all the participants: the dilemma of basing policy on “truth,” when politicians can manipulate the concept into something that no longer resembles the truth of scientists. “Scientists talk in terms of hypotheses and probabilities,” she pointed out, whereas “politics and law tends to move on the assumption that the case is ‘X’ and we need to base a policy on it.” But troubles arise over who gets to own that truth, she said. In light of the inherent uncertainly of science, she explained, the United States has seen the difference in the treatment of truth used to delay necessary policies, as in the case of global warming. She also pointed to political manipulations of truth that have been used to “justify absolute falsehoods” as in the case of the Terri Schiavo controversy and battles over reproductive rights. She added that “nationally, we’ve seen it blurring the definition of science in the continued attempts to introduce creationism and so-called ‘Intelligent Design’ into the school system.”....

Putting Science Back on the Agenda

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Involving the rules of opposites and projection, the libs in their fantasies that they are intellectual ooze that same old pattern, haters calling people they hate haters.

In this instance, they declare emotional spasm as logic and science.

Charo identified a common thread running through the concerns of all the participants: the dilemma of basing policy on “truth,” when politicians can manipulate the concept into something that no longer resembles the truth of scientists. “Scientists talk in terms of hypotheses and probabilities,” she pointed out, whereas “politics and law tends to move on the assumption that the case is ‘X’ and we need to base a policy on it.” But troubles arise over who gets to own that truth, she said. In light of the inherent uncertainly of science, she explained, the United States has seen the difference in the treatment of truth used to delay necessary policies, as in the case of global warming. She also pointed to political manipulations of truth that have been used to “justify absolute falsehoods” as in the case of the Terri Schiavo controversy and battles over reproductive rights. She added that “nationally, we’ve seen it blurring the definition of science in the continued attempts to introduce creationism and so-called ‘Intelligent Design’ into the school system.”....

Putting Science Back on the Agenda

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This time, I place the blame for the multiple posts squarely on the WildBlue satellite system. In inclement weather like this morning, my posts hang and I get an indication the data never uploaded. If I leave it alone, it may just sit there forever, blocking all my progress. Then when it finally goes through, it does so in repeats. It is agonizingly slow, and inferior to simple dial up in these circumstances.

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Wagglebee has a separate thread on the article by Bobby Schindler today.

June 16, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Recently, yet another situation similar to that of my sister Terri Schiavo has made headlines. In West Palm Beach, Florida, Raymond Weber is asking the court to dehydrate his disabled wife, Karen, to death.

If you have read any of the reports in mainstream media, it’s just another case of a husband looking out for the “best interest” of his spouse. And just as in Terri’s case, Raymond Weber is asking the government to deliberately kill his wife who is not dying and is guilty of nothing more than having difficulty swallowing and therefore needing help, in the form of a feeding tube, to eat...

Competent Enough to Live

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Those who drool over the thrill of coaxing others into suicide never want to try it for themselves first. Thread by wagglebee on Washington State flirting with the Oregon legal murder clause.

Olympia, WA (LifeNews.com) -- The Initiative 1000 measure that would make Washington the second state, following Oregon, to legalize assisted suicide, is drawing expected opposition from pro-life groups and medical professionals. But the son of the proposal's spokesman and disability groups are opposed as well.

Booth Gardner the millionaire former governor of the state, is the lead spokesman for the I-1000 assisted suicide proposal....

Spokesman's Son, Disability Groups Oppose Washington Assisted Suicide Prop (Booth Gardner's Son)

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[Dante3]

Good riddance.

[floriduh voter]

All white t-shirts by Wham and their dancers. CHOOSE LIFE. Greer would have killed Terri anyway. That's what killers do. Thank God he's doing civil lit now, not killing people for the Sixth Judicial Circus.

www.judgegeorgegreer.com

[Etixos]

Wagglebee, I must say your post has me at a loss. My post corrected the falsehood that Wikipedia did not cover the Terri Schiavo story, and gave links to back that up. I thought perhaps the posters on this thread would be interested in them, as there is a voluminous amount of information there. I then briefly responded to a gratuitous insult, and that was the end of my post. Where in that you find "debate" or a "pro-death agenda" is beyond me.

I have been patient and I have been polite, but it is I who have been on the receiving end of the most personal attacks.. I believe your founder has something to say about that, also.

Best,
Etixos

[Etixos]

How, then, would you have phrased it?

:Best,
:Etixos

[Etixos]

Why? That's what it is; what would you call it?

Best,
:Etixos

[floriduh voter]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Hksil-KkebQ don’t say I never gave you anything. Wham. Wake Me Up Before You Go Go (Choose Life).

[BykrBayb]

Who sent out an engraved invitation to the trolls?

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Well, gee whiz, BB, it is simple as all get out. We are reaching the full moon and Summer Solstice is just about here. With, as I can imagine, ObamaNation casting its spell new agers and old agers and assorted and sundry critters will cavort. We have to be careful not to trip over them.

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More stuff on the RINOvirus outbreak in Colorado in a thread by LesforLife.

A Colorado anti-abortion group that wasn't allowed to set up a display table at the state Republican convention blasted party chairman Dick Wadhams on Monday, saying he is trying to drag the party "to the left."

Colorado Right to Life President Joe Riccobono warned Republicans that by shunning their conservative base, they're headed for "another election catastrophe in November."....

Anti-abortion group rips state GOP chairman

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And lest we forget...

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I apologize if I misinterpreted what you said.

The FACT remains that while Wikipedia may be a good source of general information on centuries-old historical events, their coverage of contemporary events is decidedly leftist.

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Ping to this prayer thread for our troops in danger.

Dear Family and Friends, I am writing to you today with a sense of urgency. I am asking that you pray for myself, my unit, and all coalition forces. Some of you may have heard through the news that the Taliban recently had a prison break in Kandahar City. Those reports are accurate.........

Urgent Prayer Request from Soldier in Afghanistan

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[Dante3]

Prayers!

[Sun]

“RINOvirus outbreak” nails it, and if you don’t mind, I think I’ll steal that phrase from time to time.