Posted on 05/08/2008 3:14:03 AM PDT by 8mmMauser
Due to the nature of this story, I just had to check. Sanger, CA was not named after Margaret Sanger. http://www.ci.sanger.ca.us/sangerhistory.asp .
That is a curious coincidence, unnervingly close.
Interestingly, the only ones to carry a story on her today are from Gannett Publications so I can only link, not even excerpt...
Family of comatose woman revives Schiavo debate
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This morning I've come to one of those monstrosities, North Phoenix Baptist Church, to witness John McCain's halfhearted offensive in his battle to win over the Christian right. On the stump, McCain talks about God less than any Republican politician in recent memory -- certainly less than any Republican I've ever seen. The guy pitches a tent visible from a mile off whenever anyone so much as mentions the military; you can almost hear the dopamine surging into his bloodstream every time someone stands up in a town hall and begins a question by saying, "Hello, Senator, my husband was a Navy pilot. . . ." And he seems positively tumescent when talking about such horrors as Al Qaeda or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. But his basic stump speech doesn't contain a single line about God or religion. McCain is probably the first Republican in modern history to talk more about "green technology" than about his personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
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The marriage of fundamentalist Christianity and the conservative movement has been a powerful force in world affairs. It has been the best smoke screen the archpriests of supply-side economics could possibly have had, giving Wall Street a populist in with the very people victimized the most by their union-busting, deregulatory policies. It turned out, for decades, that Bible-thumping Americans didn't mind having their jobs shipped to China, so long as someone was worrying about the air supply to Terri Schiavo's brain lump. As political cons go, this was the ultimate gift that kept on giving...........
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Concerned Women for America (CWA) applauds South Dakota for taking a stand to protect the unborn. The 8th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals recently ruled that South Dakotas informed consent law may now be enforced. This law requires physicians to tell women who are seeking abortions that the abortion will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living being. Physicians are also required to provide a description of all the medical risks of the procedure, including depression and increased risk of suicide....
A Victory for Babies in South Dakota
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Please note update posts at #970-972 by Chadsworth and please join me in prayer for all.
Prayer Request for Ladyinred [update in post #908]
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Prayers.
Where are the wagons from the plague? I fear they're going to be making a comeback.
This euthanasia plan has deep roots and since they have infiltrated govt, insurance, medical community and even the coroner's offices, I believe the death cultists drove up the cost of medicine to further the euthanasia movement.
DEHYDRATION SPECULATORS.
Was Kathy Rivera actually in a real coma?
(at Judge Whittemore's DE NOVO HEARING for TERRI SCHIAVO, Barry Cohen was there as Greer's counsel. Now if Greer wasn't guilty of anything, why did he have a criminal atty at the DE NOVO HEARING.
No matter. Judge Whittemore was as gung ho about killing Terri Schiavo as Judge Greer was. I can't recall if Greer was at the federal hrg but if he was, nobody thought that was unethical, illegal or a conflict. CROOKS ALL.
www.judgegeorgegreer.com
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Leslie Hanks is a dear friend of mine and friend of this blog. She posts comments here using the moniker, "lesforlife." She is an integral part of American Right to Life and also runs the Passionate Prolifer blog. Leslie's family has recently received unfathomable news about one of her 22-month-
Leslie came and ministered with us one day at Alternatives and soon afterward that killing kafe closed. Leslie boldly confronted Quennie DeHaan with her camera and asked him pointedly how he could do what he did. 85-year-old Quennie responded in a smart-a** manner but, it was apparent he had not been face to face with boldness like Les presented to this hired killer. I am convinced that it was just one more straw that caused this abortuary to close it's doors and it remains that way to this day.... What a wonderful "earthly" reward it would be if the Lord would restore total health to Tuesday and honor this faithful "grandma" to so many little lives who have lived because she pled for their lives.
Leslie emailed me the photo of Tuesday in ICU, attached to an IV. Please join me in praying for Tuesday and her family.3-year-old twin granddaughters, Tuesday. As her friend Judy explained in an email:Tuesday... has just been diagnosed with adrenal cancer and is sufffering through chemotherapy since the tumor is inoperable.
Now this fearless grandma needs our prayers to bring complete healing to Tuesday. Confront death on Tuesday's behalf, if you would. Pray that she will only be a short time in ICU and be able to come back to her happier room at the hospital where all her "stuff" is. Pray for her mom and dad that they will experience that "peace that passes ALL understanding" that we have all seen born out in so many God-situations.
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From the blog of Professor Pope on Medical Futility...
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In a "classic" futility dispute, the legally authorized decision maker wants to continue LSMT against the recommendation of the health care providers. But sometimes there is a dispute just among the health care providers or just among potential proxy decision makers. The latter sort of dispute is unfolding in Fresno, California.
46-year-old Janet Rivera suffered profound brain damage after a 2006 heart attack. Janet's husband was her authorized decision maker (apparently by default under the California Health Care Decisions Act) until his own medical problems prevented him from playing that role. Dr. David Hadden, the county coroner and public guardian was then appointed as Janet's guardian. On July 11, 2008, Dr. Hadden agreed with Janet's physicians that it was appropriate to stop LSMT because her condition was "untreatable and irreversible." Janet's ANH was then removed.
Ten days later, Janet's family sought a TRO. Today, before the ruling, the guardian agreed to allow ANH to resume pending further judicial resolution. This afternoon, the judge ordered Fresno County to restore all medical needs to keep Janet alive until a fuller evidentiary hearing on Tuesday.
New Futility Case: Janet Rivera
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Valley Springs attorney Brian Chavez-Ochoa, who worked with family members of Teri Schiavo several years ago in the nationally publicized case, went to work last week on a Fresno County case that has many similarities to Schiavo's but also one rather significant difference.
"I think this is almost identical but for this fact: (Schiavo) was family versus family. This is government versus family," he said.
Chavez-Ochoa said this may be the first time for litigation of just such a case. Janet Rivera was removed from tubes providing food and water for nearly two weeks. Last Tuesday, the Fresno County Superior Court ordered that Rivera's feeding tube and water be reinstated until a July 29 trial........
Attorney tackles Schiavo-like case
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Thanks, BB.
I may only excerpt from this site, so please follow the link.
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............Experts say the county is taking a chance by trying to make an end-of-life decision for Rivera. It's unusual for a conservator to argue for removing life support without evidence that's what the patient would want, said David Magnus, director of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics. While Hadden says financial considerations have played no role in deciding whether to keep her on life support, her family contends Rivera might not be in this situation if she had more money or better health-care coverage. Rivera's medical bills are being paid by Medi-Cal, the state-federal insurance program for low-income families.
A question of life support... FRESNO CASE HAS ECHOES OF SCHIAVO STORY
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ROME, JULY 28, 2008 (Zenit.org).- Twenty-five doctors are appealing to Italian courts for the life of a 37-year-old woman who has come to be known as Italy's Terri Schiavo.
Eluana Englaro was condemned to death by starvation by a Milan court earlier this month. The decision was a new development in a near 10-year court battle waged by her father, who seeks to deny her hydration and nourishment.
Englaro entered what is sometimes called the permanent vegetative state after a car accident in 1992.
Milan's attorney general requested time to lodge a possible appeal against the preceding judicial decision..........................
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This pile of verbiage is scraped from TruthDig...
From the people who brought you the Terri Schiavo spectacle, the stem-cell research stalemate and the atrocious waste of tax money on abstinence-only sex education that has been shown not to work, comes a sequel: a proposal to redefine abortion to include some of the most common forms of birth control, and to potentially penalize with funding cuts hundreds of thousands of doctors, hospitals and other health care providers who expect their employees to give women full reproductive care.....
A Parting Gift to the Religious Right
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Thread by wagglebee on that yo-yo...
Peter Singer is the Princeton bioethicist who first broke into the public's consciousness more than thirty years ago with Animal Liberation, a book in which he claimed that granting human beings special privileges based on being human is "speciesist"discrimination against animals.
Instead of society being human centric, he asserted that the lives and well-being of animals deserve "equal consideration" with those of humans.
Singer's intent was (and is) to destroy human exceptionalismthe belief that human life matters morally simply because it is humanand replace it with a "quality of life" ethic in which being a "person" rather than a human is what matters morally..........
The Triumph of Peter Singer's Values: Animal Rights More Important Than Human
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Thread by wagglebee.
Wichita, KS (LifeNews.com) -- A Kansas judge ruled against late-term abortion practitioner George Tiller and his request to declare Kansas' ban on most late-term abortions unconstitutional. District Court Judge Clark Owens determined that the post-viability abortion ban is legitimate.
Judge Owens said the law "survives all of the constitutional challenges" Tiller's lawyers presented.....
Kansas Judge Dismisses George Tiller Motion Against Late-Term Abortion Law
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