http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/terrischaivo/ en-us Thu, 14 May 2009 22:17:05 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2251130/posts Many are questioning why officials at the University of Notre Dame are inviting the most pro-abortion president in our history to receive an honorary doctorate of laws. Doesn’t this make a mockery of Notre Dame’s historic role as the premier Catholic university in America? Doesn’t this create a scandal for the Catholic faithful as well as for the larger community of Americans who are not Catholic? Much of the fierce public debate has centered on why Notre Dame would extend such an honor. The divisions exposed by this invitation are deep and worrisome. What we need to ask is why... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2251130/posts#comment Thu, 14 May 2009 22:17:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050829/posts 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. The 46-year-old had a heart attack on February 2006 and she never regained consciousness. She has been on life support for two years. Fresno County... Life News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050829/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:49:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049061/posts Costa Rican artiste Guillermo Habacuc Vargas is making headlines for tying a dog from the street in an art gallery as part of an exhibit to starve it to death. The title of his exhibit "Eres Lo Que Lee" was written across the gallery in dry dog food. The food and a bowl of water were both out of the dog's reach. Eventually the animal died of starvation. The artist claimed the dog was sick and would have died anyways. Now Vargas has been selected to represent Costa Rica in Visual Arts Biennel of Central Americas 2008. The organizers have... gather.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049061/posts#comment Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:24:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044843/posts Michael is the widower of Theresa Marie Schindler “Terri” Schiavo, who died on March 31, 2005, after being judicially executed—as her husband wanted. She had collapsed on February 25, 1990, having experienced a heart attack that caused respiratory and cardiac arrest, which resulted in extensive brain damage. She was diagnosed by several doctors to be in PVS—persistent vegetative state. She was placed in—and brought out of—several hospitals for 15 years. In 1998, Michael, her husband and guardian, petitioned a Florida Court to remove her feeding tube. Robert and Mary Schindler, her parents, opposed the petition. They claimed that she was... Manila Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044843/posts#comment Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:44:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2039985/posts BIRMINGHAM, UK, July 2, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - "Ellen Westwood was due to die in February but her family's Catholic and for them, life is sacred." So begins the television coverage by the BBC of a battle by a Birmingham family to prevent the NHS from dehydrating their mother to death. According to the BBC's report, doctors decided on a Friday in February that Mrs. Westwood was "due to die" by the following Monday, but the family, with the intervention of their priest, fought the order to remove the woman's hydration. Mrs. Ellen Westwood, 88, was in Birmingham's Selly Oak Hospital... LifeSiteNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2039985/posts#comment Wed, 2 Jul 2008 23:42:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1984711/posts Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Presidential candidate John McCain addressed the debate over Terri Schiavo's euthanasia death but added little to his position other than to call the ordeal "very sad." His comments are the first since Barack Obama came under intense criticism saying he regretted supporting a bill to help her family prevent her ex-husband from killing her. McCain addressed the debate over the disabled woman during a campaign stop last week the corporate headquarters of Chick-fil-A restaurant.In a brief news conference following the event, Baptist Press reports that McCain called the entire situation relating to Terri "very sad"... Life News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1984711/posts#comment Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:20:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1905086/posts LifeNews.com Note: Laura Echevarria is the former Director of Media Relations and a spokesperson for the National Right to Life Committee and has been a radio announcer, freelance writer active in local politics. She is a new opinion columnist for LifeNews.com. In the September 25th issue of the online magazine Salon, neurologist Robert Burton takes issue with an important—and to most people encouraging—article that appeared in the Archives of Neurology. The title of Burton’s piece suggests the direction he is headed: “The Light is On, But is Anybody Home?” The former chief of neurology at Mount Zion-UCSF Hospital and the... Life News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1905086/posts#comment Mon, 1 Oct 2007 22:49:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1763556/posts Dallas, TX (LifeNews.com) -- Judge George Greer continues to travel the lecture circuit despite his controversial ruling allowing Terri Schiavo's former husband to kill her via euthanasia. Greer is slated to speak at a national summit concerning jury trials, even though he unilaterally allowed the taking of Terri's life without a jury deliberation. Greer will be one of the speakers at next month's National Jury Summit hosted by the American Board of Trial Advocates. The conference is an opportunity for legal experts to discuss the threats to the jury system. The presentations will deal with the civil jury system, factors... Life News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1763556/posts#comment Sun, 7 Jan 2007 01:52:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1623122/posts Family objects and says woman is still aware; seeking transfer to another facility in Texas By Mary Ann Roser AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Friday, April 28, 2006 Against her family's wishes, doctors at North Austin Medical Center have decided to stop treating an Austin woman after determining that she is in a persistent vegetative state, a case that echoes some of the wrenching issues raised in the Terri Schiavo case. However, hospital officials agreed Thursday to give the distraught family, which disputes that the 63-year-old woman is in a vegetative state, more time to find another facility to take her. The hospital... Austin American Statesman http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1623122/posts#comment Fri, 28 Apr 2006 13:36:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1396905/posts I was recently posed with the topic of the media in the lives of private people. I am not sure what to think about that but I do not like the media and they have no right to invade anyone's life unless that person has made his/her life public for some reason. What do others think? No Source http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1396905/posts#comment Thu, 5 May 2005 01:19:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1390454/posts BAR PRESIDENT DENOUNCES ATTACKS ON JUDICIARY FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 24, 2005 CONTACT: Francine Walker, The Florida Bar TELEPHONE: 850/561-5666 STATEMENT OF KELLY OVERSTREET JOHNSON, PRESIDENT OF THE FLORIDA BAR TALLAHASSEE -- The tragic and high visibility case of Terri Schiavo has resulted in an unprecedented and unjustified attack upon our judiciary. Regardless of anyone’s personal or political feelings about the Schiavo case, this is a critical time for Americans to recognize the vital role of the judiciary in maintaining the rule of law and the importance of the separation of powers among the three branches of government. It is... Florida Bar Online - Online Media Center http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1390454/posts#comment Mon, 25 Apr 2005 05:02:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1380181/posts In all our contemporary conflicts over the teaching of evolution in schools, there’s one question that nobody asks: To what does the embrace of Darwinism lead? Historian Richard Weikart explores that topic in a book called From Darwinto Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism in Germany. Despite that provocative title, Weikart is no sensationalist. He’s not out to prove that Hitler and the Nazi party were directly inspired by Charles Darwin’s theories. But what Weikart does demonstrate, through exhaustive research, is that Darwin’s ideas about the origin of species helped create a culture that devalued human life. And in that... PFM.ORG http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1380181/posts#comment Sat, 9 Apr 2005 00:59:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1379631/posts In the spirit of beating a dead horse—or at least removing its feeding tube—liberals have unleashed an all out assault on a Republican from Texas. I know, what else is new? But what if I told you this Texan’s name was not George W. Bush? Impossible, you say? Understand that for liberals to hate another Republican anywhere near as much as they despise President Bush, it could only mean two things: 1) That Republican is a conservative who is either attempting to cut taxes, punish judges for overstepping their boundaries, or threatening Roe V. Wade in some way. 2) That... CHRONWATCH.COM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1379631/posts#comment Fri, 8 Apr 2005 04:51:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1378212/posts Various creepy people on the Left have been torturing the English language lately to make their Death Culture more palatable to the general public, most of whom prefer to life. First with the Schiavo case, now with the Pope: they market death as if it were another lifestyle option. Selfish twerps, the public. Don't they know it's very expensive for them to go on living? Don't they know that seasides, wetlands, and highlands are much more scenic if you take away the people? Social Security would be just fine, if only the public would stop living. The Left's worst abuse... MENS NEWS DAILY.COM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1378212/posts#comment Wed, 6 Apr 2005 03:52:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1377188/posts Anyone would think the Republicans had lost the 2004 elections, and the 2002 elections, and the 2000 elections. From every corner, concerned "friends" of the party rise to offer "friendly" advice. Norman Lear, who produced all those critically acclaimed issue-confronting heroine-gets-an-abortion '70s sitcoms that seem a lot more dated than "The Beverly Hillbillies" these days, has now produced a People For The American Way ad in which a man who identifies himself as a "common-sense Republican" objects to any attempt to end the Democratic filibuster of Mr. Bush's judicial nominees. As it turns out the "common-sense Republican" has so much... The Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1377188/posts#comment Mon, 4 Apr 2005 18:04:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1376882/posts THE BEHAVIOR OF CONSERVATIVES. Uneven and sometimes awful, with lots of vituperation and extreme charges. (Jeb Bush does not remind me of Pontius Pilate; I don't think it's fair to circulate rumors that Michael Schiavo was a wife-beater.) Worse were the revolutionary suggestions that the courts be ignored or defied, perhaps by sending in the National Guard to reconnect the tube. This is the "by any means necessary" rhetoric of the radical left, this time let loose by angry conservatives. Where does this rhetoric lead? # THE BEHAVIOR OF LIBERALS. Mystifying. While conservative opinion was severely splintered, liberal opinion seemed... Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1376882/posts#comment Mon, 4 Apr 2005 05:40:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1376306/posts Many of the regular readers of Col Pappas articles have been asking why they had not seen any new articles from him over the past month or so. Well we are happy to inform you that he is not dead or incapacitated. Col Pappas has been on a vacation in Europe and has come back with a foot locker full of ideas and articles. Here is the first one..... If the Associated Press Opinion Survey is correct, Americans care little about the matter and most are willing to see Terri die. As far as the adulterous (a violation of Florida... GULF1.COM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1376306/posts#comment Sun, 3 Apr 2005 00:21:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1375919/posts Normally I add a paragraph of two of explanation of my subject matter for the benefit of any readers that may not be familiar with the subject that I am addressing. In this case, if you have not heard of the Terri Schiavo case, I suggest you quit now and read something else. Maybe no other case in recent history, including the O. J. Simpson and Scott Peterson cases, has generated as much controversy as the Terri Schiavo case. I can’t begin to count how many articles and opinions and I’ve read and heard in the past couple of weeks.... CHRONWATCH.COM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1375919/posts#comment Sat, 2 Apr 2005 05:24:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1375822/posts How do you start an article on the subject that is so surreal that it has to be unbelievable? Government-sanctioned murder of an innocent woman has just completed its course. What are we going to do? Tyranny by our judicial system has just executed what I never thought could happen in the United States of America. A woman, who was brain-damaged, not dying, was murdered. It’s true our country has completed its journey into the “Orwellian” state. Help me understand this; we have a president who can enact war upon another country without congressional blessing, but President Bush couldn’t intervene... RIGHT2THINK.COM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1375822/posts#comment Sat, 2 Apr 2005 01:15:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1375806/posts Terri Schiavo's death is expected to have major political ramifications as pro-lifers declare war on the judiciary and galvanize for the coming fight over Supreme Court vacancies. "We will look at an arrogant, out-of-control, unaccountable judiciary that thumbed their nose at Congress and the president," said House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, Texas Republican. "We will look into that." The Rev. Flip Benham, director of Operation Rescue, lamented, "The courts of this land have become the tool, in the hands of the devil, by which the culture of death has found access." Radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh bluntly blamed the... WASHINGTON TIMES INSIDER.COM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1375806/posts#comment Sat, 2 Apr 2005 00:19:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1375763/posts Normally I add a paragraph of two of explanation of my subject matter for the benefit of any readers that may not be familiar with the subject that I am addressing. In this case, if you have not heard of the Terri Schiavo case, I suggest you quit now and read something else. Maybe no other case in recent history, including the O. J. Simpson and Scott Peterson cases, has generated as much controversy as the Terri Schiavo case. I can't begin to count how many articles and opinions and I've read and heard in the past couple of weeks.... OPINION EDITORIALS.COM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1375763/posts#comment Fri, 1 Apr 2005 22:50:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1375753/posts America is now a nation ruled by the amoral and fallible will of men. They are called lawyers. The warning has been coming for decades. The current case involving the litigated and legally mandated death sentence of Terri Schiavo has now confirmed our current fate. This should be no surprise. For at least fifty years we have been indoctrinated with the specious argument that a traditional, rational and common moral code of conduct is bourgeois and unsophisticated. This journey of cultural madness has culminated in massive societal confusion regarding whether right and wrong behavior even exists. This is unless a... OPINION EDITORIALS.COM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1375753/posts#comment Fri, 1 Apr 2005 22:34:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1375195/posts The death of Terri Schiavo has taught us some tough lessons about the matter of life and death and about the proponents on both sides of this issue. Pro-life and pro-choice (right to die) advocates hooked up in a battle for the ages. While they set their feet in cement in this war of good and evil, they succeeded only in cementing the fate of the only powerless person in this entire sordid affair, namely, Terri Schiavo. Terri, was given a pair of cement shoes and was sent off to wear them in a better place where she would no... CHRONWATCH.COM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1375195/posts#comment Fri, 1 Apr 2005 05:20:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1375187/posts By the time you read this, Terri Schiavo may well be dead. At the time I’m writing this, even most of us who wanted her to live will be relieved that her pain and suffering will be over. The other good thing about her final release will be that we will no longer have to listen to the so-called experts insist that starvation and dehydration not only aren’t painful in the extreme, but actually bring on a state of bliss, almost rapture. These are the same people, I’m willing to wager, who’d throw a hissy fit if you deprived them... CHRONWATCH.COM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1375187/posts#comment Fri, 1 Apr 2005 05:11:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1375185/posts When Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore refused a federal court order to remove a monument to the Ten Commandments from that state’s Supreme Court building, he became the central figure in a firestorm of criticism from the left. But his liberal critics weren’t alone. Conservatives also chided Moore, contending that his defiance of the order undermined the “rule of law” in America. Throughout history, the law has served several functions. In a free and morally upright society, it provides a framework within which the people can safely live their lives and pursue their dreams. In a dictatorship, however, it devolves... CHRONWATCH.COM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1375185/posts#comment Fri, 1 Apr 2005 05:04:20 GMT