Posted on 05/08/2008 3:14:03 AM PDT by 8mmMauser
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A Fresno County judge has ordered life support temporarily restored to a comatose woman. Probate Judge Debra Kazanjian issued the ruling on July 23 at the urging of family members of Janet Rivera of Sanger, whose feeding and hydration tubes had been removed two weeks earlier at the request of a county-appointed guardian. She has been on life support for more than two years.
Judge Kazanjian said she would revisit the issue on Tuesday, July 29, following a thorough assessment of Sanger’s medical condition.
Rivera, 46, suffered a heart attack in February 2006 and never regained consciousness. Her husband, Jesus Rivera of Sanger, had been Janet’s conservator until June 17, when the county replaced him with the county guardian Dr. David Hadden. Why the county removed Rivera from the conservatorship is unknown, the Rivera family’s attorney, Brian Chavez-Ochoa of Valley Springs, told the Fresno Bee. The Rivera family has said it wants Janet’s cousin, Suzanne Emrich of Boulder Creek, to take over the conservatorship.
According to a statement from the county conservator’s office, Fresno’s De Witt Community Subacute Center in Fresno, where Janet Rivera had been a patient, had requested in March that the county take over her conservatorship. Rivera’s medical bills were being paid for by Medi-Cal.
After the change in conservators, Janet Rivera’s condition became worse. She was admitted to Fresno’s Community Regional Medical Center’s intensive care unit on July 5. Six days later, on the advice of Janet Rivera’s doctors, Hadden had her feeding and hydration tubes removed. According to a statement from the guardian’s office, Hadden made his decision after “immense consideration” and based on Rivera's "untreatable and irreversible condition and to prevent any and all suffering that she may be enduring."
Rivera’s family, however, objected to Hadden’s order. Jesus Rivera told the Bee he wants "her body to give out when it gives out between her and almighty God and no one else. You can't starve someone to death."
The family contacted the Alliance Defense Fund and Life Legal Defense, as well as Chavez-Ochoa, who is not charging for his services. “Our argument centers on the sanctity of life,” he told the Bee. Chavez-Ochoa is a longtime pro-life, pro-family attorney. He was an adviser in the Terri Schiavo case. Schiavo was the brain-damaged Florida woman who died of starvation in 2005, 13 days after her feeding tubes had been removed. The battle to save Schiavo’s life became a national cause, but was ultimately unsuccessful.
Even though most of her medical bills have been paid by Medi-Cal, county officials said Mrs. Rivera has accumulated $200,000 in unpaid medical bills. They insist, however, that the cost of care has played no role in the decision to take her off life support.
You can't starve someone to death
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Fresno, CA (LifeNews.com) -- Twelve days after she was initially denied food and water, a California court ruled that Janet Rivera is entitled to the nutrition and hydration that a guardian revoked. Rivera is the latest disabled patient like Terri Schiavo to draw the attention of pro-life advocates because of her plight.
Rivera lost her right to food and water on July 14 when a court-appointed guardian removed her feeding tube despite her family's wishes....
Janet Rivera, California's Terri Schiavo, Allowed to Receive Food and Water
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Thread by wagglebee.
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A leading pro-life group that monitors international issues says the problem of sex-selection abortions could be lessened if pro-abortion activists got involved. But the Population Research Institute says the blather of protecting women and their health appears to stop at the border's edge.
In a new YouTube video the group has released, PRI president Steven Mosher decries the practice, common in East and South Asian countries, of sex-selective abortion....
Pro-Life Group: Where Are Feminists on Sex-Selection Abortion Problem?
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Golden implants? Teeth, I can understand, but the weight of those puppies? The worse this creature gets, the more he is celebrated. Oh Canada!
Thread by wagglebee.
July 24, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - "My God is a Goddess with golden breasts, dripping milk and honey. A suckling baby am I, nursing at the golden breast." So writes Dr. Henry Morgentaler, Canada's father of abortion, in one of the poems found in his self-published book of poetry, "Freedom is my Passion."...
(Abortionist) Dr. Henry Morgentaler and "the Goddess with the Golden Breasts"
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I don't know about anyone else, but I wouldn't have any inclination to give money to a group that was committed to murdering me or someone I loved.
I sometimes wonder if these commie pinko puppets even have a clue as to how foolish they look to the lucid side of humanity.
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Daniel, why must you persist with this line on Barack Obama?
Obama has made his pro-abortion views well known and recently expanded his agenda in this regard, announcing in a presidential debate on February 26 2008 that he regrets his “Yea” in a unanimous vote in the US Senate in 2005 in favour of letting Terri Schiavo’s mother and father try to save her life by pursuing a review of her case in the federal courts.
Obama said this in response to being asked if there was any word or vote he would like to take back in his entire political career. By singling out Terri Schiavo he was clearly signalling to pro-choice forces that he would advance their agenda on all fronts....
Rather Obama's mush than McCain's Euro-fanaticism
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Precisely!
Though I will NEVER agree with it, I can understand the mindset of those on the left who say they now regret voting for the war. Obama on the other hand, made it clear that his biggest regret is voting to let an innocent woman live.
Of course, this is the same man who on multiple occasions voted that those who somehow survived the abortionist's knife should be executed at birth.
“A Fresno County judge has ordered life support temporarily restored to a comatose woman.”
They keep calling nourishment life support as if it’s extraordinary means.
Well, nourishment IS life support, but I think when most people hear “life support,” they think of being connected to some sophisticated machine.
It is from the Fresno Bee and I am only excerpting this story which elucidates the situation. I urge following the link for the rest...
I have a bad feeling about this, a deja vu of standing at the courthouse of Judge Whitmore while he twiddled his thumbs and Terri slipped away.
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Michael Dancoff sat by his sister's bedside in the hospital, waiting and praying. It was just a matter of time.
Doctors said Janet Rivera was supposed to die in the next 24 hours. Rivera, who had been in a coma for more than two years, suffered from a failing heart and didn't have long to live. Doctors suggested that she be taken off life support, and her family reluctantly agreed.
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Finally on Tuesday -- 11 days after life support was removed -- Dr. David Hadden, the county's coroner, public administrator and guardian, ordered doctors to give Rivera food and water through tubes again.
The next day, Fresno County Probate Judge Debra Kazanjian ordered that Rivera remain on life support for now. Kazanjian will decide at a hearing this Tuesday whether to keep Rivera on life support, and could decide who should have control over Rivera's medical decisions.
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Fresno, CA (LifeNews.com) -- Disability rights advocates and pro-life groups are speaking up in the case of Janet Rivera, an incapacitated California woman who had her food and water restored yesterday. They say Rivera's guardian was wrong to override her family and deny her the right to sustenance.
Rivera, 46, had a heart attack on February 2006 and she never regained consciousness. She has been on life support for two years.
As LifeNews.com has reported, on July 14 a court-appointed guardian removed her feeding tube despite her family's wishes.
After obtaining help from pro-life attorneys, the Rivera family won a court order to restore the feeding tube while the case continues. Now, a hearing is set for Tuesday of next week to make a more permanent decision............
Disability Advocates, Pro-Life Groups Upset Janet Rivera Lost Food, Water
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It's a wake-up call. That's what the Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation says about a story you first saw Monday on CBS47.
The organization helped Janet Rivera's family find legal counsel after the Fresno County Public Guardian's office refused to give her food and water.
Rivera went about eleven days off life support and it wasn't until the family asked CBS47 for help and we began our investigation, that the county put back her feeding tube.
A judge ordered the county to restore her feeding tube and respirator, although the family says she was already breathing on her own.
They’re attorney, a man no stranger to these kinds of cases, Brian Chavez Ochoa, worked with the Schiavo family.
On Tuesday the family will appear in court to ask the judge to let Janet Rivera live and let them begin making her medical decisions.
Schiavo Foundation: Its a Wake-up Call
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Echoes of Rush's favorite parody about the Yugo...
Organ donor cars and the Democrats
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Thread by wagglebee.
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July 25, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Campaign Life Coalition Canada (CLC) is hosting and co-sponsoring the International Pro-Life Conference, "Creating a Culture of Life Around the Globe," in Toronto October 2-4 with Life Canada and the International Right to Life Federation (IRTLF). Among the many notable speakers at this major conference will be Father Gerard Wilberforce, the great, great grandson of slavery abolitionist William Wilberforce.
Jim Hughes, International Right to Life vice-president and president of Campaign Life Coalition Canada told LifeSiteNews that the conference is expected to be as exciting as the 2002 International conference with speakers from around the world. Hughes stated that headline speaker Fr. Wilberforce "will speak on how his great-great grandfather, were he alive today, would be in the forefront of the pro-life movement fighting to end abortion as he fought to end slavery."....
William Wilberforce Relative to Speak at International Pro-Life Conference in Toronto October 2-4
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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Poor women and children need food, health care and education, but the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program is coming under fire for giving them abortions instead. The program's web site features a link to Planned Parenthood, the business that does about 25 percent of U.S. abortions.
Pro-life blogger Dawn Eden, author of The Thrill of the Chaste, found the link at the USDA's WIC Learning Center, the official web site for the federal government's program.....
WIC Program Blasted for Web Link to Planned Parenthood Abortion Business
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Please note from posts of yesterday, Kathy Rivera should read Janet Rivera...
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Three years after the fight over Terri Schiavo pulled the nation into the end-of-life debate, the case of a comatose Fresno County woman is reopening old wounds -- and could prove even more inflammatory.Three years after the fight over Terri Schiavo pulled the nation into the end-of-life debate, the case of a comatose Fresno County woman is reopening old wounds -- and could prove even more inflammatory.
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The Schiavo family has taken an interest in this case. The Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation helped find a lawyer to represent the Rivera family, said Schiavo's brother, Bobby Schindler.
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End-of-life decisions are complex, said Dr. Michael Nisco, medical director at Saint Agnes Hospice and Hinds Hospice in Fresno..............................
Schiavo debate relived in Valley... Sanger woman in coma center of wide dispute.
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Three years after the fight over Terri Schiavo pulled the nation into the end-of-life debate, the case of a comatose Fresno County woman is reopening old wounds -- and could prove even more inflammatory.Three years after the fight over Terri Schiavo pulled the nation into the end-of-life debate, the case of a comatose Fresno County woman is reopening old wounds -- and could prove even more inflammatory.
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The Schiavo family has taken an interest in this case. The Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation helped find a lawyer to represent the Rivera family, said Schiavo's brother, Bobby Schindler.
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End-of-life decisions are complex, said Dr. Michael Nisco, medical director at Saint Agnes Hospice and Hinds Hospice in Fresno..............................
Schiavo debate relived in Valley... Sanger woman in coma center of wide dispute.
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oops...
More anti-lucidity from the Gang Green.
Thread by wagglebee...British couples should have no more than two children to save the world from global warming, according to a green think tank.
Campaigners from the Optimum Population Trust said limiting family size was the 'simplest and biggest' contribution people could make to saving the planet.
While Britain need not follow the example of China and ban large families, having more than two children should be frowned upon in the same way as using a patio heater or driving a gas guzzling car....
How to save the world - don't have more than two children (Barf Alert!)
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Thread by wagglebee.
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Using condoms, IUDs, and other modern family planning methods could mean committing genocide and being part of a global conspiracy to exterminate humanity, an opponent of modern family planning says.
Linda Valenzona, a consultant of the Vatican's Pontifical Council on the Family, believes that modern family planning is a form of voluntary genocide imposed by powerful groups upon the weak, and it will lead nowhere but to extinction.
"Let me ask you a question," Valenzona said on ANC's The Big Picture with Ricky Carandang. "If all cats in the world would come to an agreement that they will not have kittens, what will happen to the cats?"
They will become extinct, and the same will hold true for humans because of population control, she said.....................
'Modern family planning same as genocide'
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