http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/schiavo/ en-us Wed, 1 Oct 2008 22:56:17 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2095279/posts Los Angeles, October 1, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Saturday, September 27, the Mexican superstar of Latin America, Eduardo Verastegui, and several of his friends joined the 40 Days for Life prayer campaign outside Family Planning Associates, an abortion business at 601 S. Westmoreland Avenue. He went there for two reasons: to help mothers and their unborn children, and warn people about the number-one abortion celebrity, Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL).Verastegui is cofounder of L.A.-based Metanoia Films and lead actor in the company's first feature film, Bella (http://www.amazon.com/Bella-Eduardo-Ver%C3%A1stegui/dp/B0014...), which premiered in American movie theaters last October.Until November 2, citizens of 179 cities in... LifeSiteNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2095279/posts#comment Wed, 1 Oct 2008 22:56:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2062927/posts In speech to Planned Parenthood in July 2007, said he would sign Freedom of Choice Act to enshrine Roe in federal law By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., February 28, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Barack Obama, the young, dynamic contender for the US Democratic presidential nomination, is continuing to send strong signals to members of his party that he is the strongest anti-life candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination. At the last Democratic debate before the March 4 primary showdown in Texas and Ohio that could effectively decide the Democratic nominee, both Sen. Hillary Clinton - a fierce abortion supporter who... LifeSiteNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2062927/posts#comment Sat, 16 Aug 2008 16:30:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059248/posts In 1990, Theresa Schiavo, an American citizen, had a cardiac arrest that caused irreversible brain damage which led to a persistent vegetative state diagnosis. A few years later, this diagnosis became a source of conflict over the interruption of artificial nutrition. The "Schiavo Case" was widely discussed from a medical, ethical and social standpoint in the United States and elsewhere. . . . [A]n article to be published in the September 23 issue of Neurology, . . . examines the media coverage featuring this famous case. The study reviewed American daily newspapers that were most prolific about this story: the... Science Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059248/posts#comment Sun, 10 Aug 2008 01:36:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2015397/posts St. Petersburg, FL -- Terri Schiavo's mother Mary Schindler has uncovered a note that Terri wrote back in 1984 when she married her husband Michael. Now remarried to someone with whom he had an affair before Terri's death, Michael won a court order to take her live despite pleas from her family. Terri's brother Bobby Schindler tells LifeNews.com about the note. Complete story at: http://www.LifeNews.com/bio2440.html LifeNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2015397/posts#comment Tue, 13 May 2008 19:10:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2012903/posts LAUREN RICHARDSON - YOU CAN HELP!By Judie BrownIt 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... ChristtheKingMaine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2012903/posts#comment Thu, 8 May 2008 10:14:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1996257/posts In 2001, the Schindler family — the parents, brother and sister of Terri Schiavo — formed the Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation to try to save the life of their loved one who, as her brother, Bobby Schindler, said to me recently, "was deemed unworthy of life because she was cognitively disabled." The judiciary and the press did not agree with that justified accusation that Terri was cruelly starved and dehydrated to death. The foundation continues. "We fight daily," Bobby Schindler emphasizes, "to shed light on the fact that having a disability of any kind does nothing to diminish a person's... Jewish World Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1996257/posts#comment Thu, 3 Apr 2008 20:12:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1991998/posts In none of the endless presidential candidates' debates has there been a meaningful discussion of the rights of disabled Americans. However, in the Feb. 26 debate in Cleveland, Barack Obama casually and ignorantly revealed his misunderstanding of the basic issue in the highly visible and still-resonating official death sentence of a disabled woman, Terri Schiavo. I have repeatedly called her death the result of "the longest public execution in American history." When moderator Tim Russert asked Hillary Clinton and Obama if "there are any words or votes that you'd like to take back ... in your careers in public service,"... Jewish World Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1991998/posts#comment Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:45:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1987359/posts In a recent interview in the Sunday "NYTimes" magazine, Eleanor Clift, says, re: Terri Schiavo, that her parents and supporters "did not want to accept that she could not be rehabilitated. They found enough people to fool them into thinking she could." This, of course, is completely wrong! Forget "rehabilitation." What Terri's parents and her supporters tried to stop was the MURDER of Terri Schiavo. Alas, they failed -- with no help from people like Eleanor Clift. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1987359/posts#comment Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:24:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1976878/posts by Steven Ertelt LifeNews.com Editor February 26, 2008 Cleveland, OH (LifeNews.com) -- Senator Barack Obama debated his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton on Tuesday night and said his biggest mistake was voting to help save Terri Schiavo. Terri is the disabled Florida woman whose husband won the legal right to starve her to death. LifeNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1976878/posts#comment Wed, 27 Feb 2008 04:21:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1979051/posts During a televised debate between Democrat party nominee frontrunners, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were asked if there were any votes that they would like to take back. Here was Obama's choice... "When I first arrived in the Senate that first year, we had a situation surrounding Terri Schiavo," Obama said. "And I remember how we adjourned with a unanimous agreement that eventually allowed Congress to interject itself into that decision-making process of the families. It wasn't something I was comfortable with, but it was not something that I stood on the floor and stopped," he said. "And I think... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1979051/posts#comment Sun, 2 Mar 2008 03:44:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1977276/posts Cleveland, OH (LifeNews.com) -- Senator Barack Obama debated his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton on Tuesday night and said his biggest mistake was voting with a unanimous Senate to help save Terri Schiavo. Terri is the disabled Florida woman whose husband won the legal right to starve her to death. In March 2005, just weeks before Terri died from a painful 14-day starvation and dehydration death, Congress approved legislation allowing her family to take its case from state courts to federal courts in an effort to stop the euthanasia from proceeding.Terri was not on any artificial breathing apparatus and only required... LifeNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1977276/posts#comment Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:14:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1977176/posts In last night's democratic debate between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama - their last one before the Texas/Ohio showdown on March 4th - Barack Obama made a surprising (to me, shocking) statement: RUSSERT: Senator Obama, any statements or vote you'd like to takeback? OBAMA: Well, you know, when I first arrived in the Senate that first year, we had a situation surrounding Terri Schiavo. And I remember how we adjourned with a unanimous agreement that eventually allowed Congress to interject itself into that decision making process of the families. It wasn't something I was comfortable with, but it was... American Papist http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1977176/posts#comment Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:02:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1976819/posts “Death has replaced sex as the taboo subject of our times,” said one of the world’s richest men and leading philanthropists, George Soros, when he launched the Project Death in America fund at Columbia University’s College of Physicians & Surgeons in 1994. It promotes euthanasia or assisted suicide, and has been succeeded by the Open Society Institute’s International Palliative Care Initiative . Soros’s mother committed suicide, as a member of the Hemlock Society . His father died a lingering death from cancer, and Soros was “disappointed” at the way the old man clung miserably to life. Business Day http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1976819/posts#comment Wed, 27 Feb 2008 01:50:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1963485/posts A Delaware woman has become the next Terri Schiavo as her parents engage in a massive legal and philosophical debate about whether to subject her to euthanasia. Richardson is a 23-year-old woman who overdosed on heroin in August 2006 while she was three months pregnant with a baby girl. Doctors kept Lauren on life support until she delivered her baby in February 2007. Shortly thereafter, her parents began a fight that is reminiscent of the battle over Terri's life and death. As in the Terri Schiavo case, physicians have been quick to label Lauren as having a persistent vegetative state... LifeNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1963485/posts#comment Fri, 1 Feb 2008 22:51:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1947401/posts Bronx, NY (LifeNews.com) -- The battle over the life and death of a teenage girl in New York has drawn the attention of pro-life advocates in recent days. The fight to save Javona Peters reminds some of the struggle of the Schindler family in Florida to save the life of Terri Schiavo, a beloved daughter and sibling whose former husband eventually took her life. In this case, Peters' parents are disagreeing on whether or not to remove her feeding tube and take her life.Peters fell into a coma in October while she had a routine medical procedure at Montefiore Medical... Life News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1947401/posts#comment Wed, 2 Jan 2008 23:57:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1941645/posts "Paulo Melo, 29, has been in a coma at the Royal Darwin Hospital for two weeks, after severing his spinal cord in a car crash." - read more below: doctor requested, family objected, court granted Australian news http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1941645/posts#comment Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:00:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1939869/posts December 14, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Bobby Schindler, the brother of Terri Shiavo, the young woman who was dehydrated to death in Florida in 2005, has become a prominent opponent of euthanasia since that wrenching time for his family. In a recent Challenge magazine interview with Alex Schadenberg of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, Schindler revealed the shocking details of the support from many prominent Catholic clergy for the court ordered removal of food and hydration from Terri. Bobby is a practicing Catholic as was his sister.   Schindler stated that his sister "was not dying, not attached to any type of... LifeSite http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1939869/posts#comment Sat, 15 Dec 2007 13:47:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1923204/posts http://www.yahoo.com/ Yahoo/Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1923204/posts#comment Fri, 9 Nov 2007 05:35:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1914826/posts TAMPA, Fla. - Republican Fred Thompson sidestepped a question about the Terri Schiavo right-to-die case last month, saying he didn't remember the details. On Monday he said he's uncomfortable discussing it because of his own daughter's death.snip "And this will probably be the last time I ever address it." snip He added: "It should be decided by families. The federal government and the state government, too — except for the court system — ought to stay out of it, as far as I'm concerned." Yahoo News / AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1914826/posts#comment Mon, 22 Oct 2007 23:12:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1909866/posts Interesting article about the awareness of vegetative patients. We are not able to post the New Yorker's content, but check out the link. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/10/15/071015fa_fact_groopman?printable=true http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1909866/posts#comment Thu, 11 Oct 2007 18:58:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1908372/posts Milan, Italy (LifeNews.com) -- An Italian court has denied a request by a disabled woman's father to remove her feeding tube and authorize her death by starvation and dehydration. Eluana Englaro has been a coma for 15 years after an automobile accident seriously injured her and, this year, her father asked a Milan court for permission to remove her feeding tube. This isn't the first time Englaro's case had been in court. In April 2005, the Italian Supreme Court confirmed a lower court ruling to keep her feeding tube in place. That case had also been brought by Englaro's father,... Life News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1908372/posts#comment Mon, 8 Oct 2007 22:40:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1907999/posts by Steven ErteltLifeNews.com EditorOctober 4, 2007 Gainesville, FL (LifeNews.com) -- Saying it is worried about security in light of concerns at other college campuses, the University of Florida has decided to postpone a controversial speech by euthanasia advocate Jack Kevorkian. The speech would be his first following his release from prison for killing a disabled man and showing the death on national television. Kevorkian was slated to speak to UF students on October 11 and receive $50,000 for the talk, as long as his parole officers approve the trip.Now the speech has been postponed until January 15 as UF officials... LifeNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1907999/posts#comment Mon, 8 Oct 2007 03:19:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1905267/posts Tyler Savage: he is fed through a tube in his stomach A boy of 12 suffers from so many allergies that he is able to eat only five foods. Tyler Savage is violently ill every time he is given dishes containing dairy products or wheat, gluten, eggs, lactose and soya. The sole foods he is allowed are chicken, carrots, grapes, potatoes and apples. To help him survive, minerals and vitamins are pumped directly into his stomach through a tube. Tyler started to fall ill at the age of six when even a morsel of food would leave him writhing... The Evening Standard, London http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1905267/posts#comment Tue, 2 Oct 2007 10:51:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1903391/posts PHILADELPHIA, PA, September 25, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - As is the custom in the United States, the first Sunday of October will be honored by US Catholics as Respect Life Sunday.  In honor of this, Cardinal Justin Rigali, the Chairman of the Committee for Pro-Life Activities of the United States' Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), has issued a statement to be made available at all parishes nationwide.  The statement calls for US Catholics to "again pray for - and renew their resolve to bring about - a culture of life and an end to the killing of innocent human beings, especially... Life Site http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1903391/posts#comment Fri, 28 Sep 2007 04:44:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1903831/posts Contacts: Carrie Giddins/Chris Allen Phone: 515-244-7292 Hopefully They Won’t Take a Close Look at His Record Des Moines – Fred Thompson’s presidential campaign is less than a month old and yet he has already managed to alienate the evangelical conservatives he will need to win the Iowa Caucuses. Thompson started his campaign by forgetting that he had lobbied the White House in favor of abortion rights. His campaign continued to falter after Thompson revealed that he rarely attends church and knew nothing about the well-publicized Terri Schiavo case. Some evangelical leaders have already declared they won’t be supporting his candidacy... Iowa Politics http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1903831/posts#comment Sat, 29 Sep 2007 00:33:59 GMT