http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/terrischiavo/ en-us Sat, 6 Sep 2008 16:45:36 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076110/posts PENNS CREEK — The lawyer who battled for two years to keep Terri Schiavo alive plans to speak at a Snyder County church on Friday. David Gibbs III will discuss why Schiavo’s 2005 death is still relevant during a scheduled appearance in Penns Creek at the G.I. Straub Memorial Tabernacle, according to Jeremy Fuller, Duncannon God’s Missionary Church pastor and event co-organizer. At the request of Schiavo’s parents, Gibbs took the fight to keep the brain-damaged woman’s feeding tube in all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Schiavo had been in a persistent vegetative state for 15 years before... The Daily Item http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076110/posts#comment Sat, 6 Sep 2008 16:45:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2072571/posts This segment was originally broadcast on Nov. 25, 2007. It was updated on Aug. 28, 2008. Three years ago, Terri Schiavo sparked a nationwide debate when she was removed from a feeding tube. Schiavo was in a permanent vegetative state with no chance of recovery. But there are as many as 300,000 other Americans who have survived brain injuries, only to be trapped in what's called a "minimally conscious state." They can't talk, walk, or eat, but they retain more mental awareness than vegetative patients. For decades now, minimally conscious people have been all but written off by the medical... CBS News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2072571/posts#comment Mon, 1 Sep 2008 20:14:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060830/posts LifeNews.com Note: Michael Egnor, M.D. is professor of neurosurgery and pediatrics at State University of New York, Stony Brook and an award-winning brain surgeon who has been named one of New York's best doctors by New York Magazine. This editorial may not necessarily represent the views of LifeNews.com. Yale neurologist Dr. Steven Novella and I have been involved in a vigorous discussion (example here) of the mind-brain problem in science and philosophy. There are real-world implications of our understanding of the mind, and nowhere are these implications more important than in the medical management of people with severe brain damage.... Life News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060830/posts#comment Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:23:16 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/2058295/posts St. Petersburg, FL (LifeNews.com) -- After her husband won the legal right to subject her to a painful euthanasia death via starvation and dehydration, the mainstream media coverage of Terri Schiavo ended abruptly. Proving they were more interested in protecting people than the lure of the cameras, Terri's family hasn't stopped fighting for the disabled. Following Terri's death, the Schindler family converted the foundation they established to provide her with medical care to helping other disabled patients.The foundation now serves as a legal, medical and information clearinghouse for patients and their families.LifeNews.com recently profiled the case of Janet Rivera, a... Life News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2058295/posts#comment Thu, 7 Aug 2008 23:16:29 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/2043543/posts Rome, Italy (LifeNews.com) -- The family of Terri Schiavo is concerned about an Italian woman whose father has won the right form a court to subject her to a painful euthanasia death. They fear Eluana Englaro will be dehydrated and starved to death in the same way Terri's husband forced her to endure.Englaro has been in what doctors term a vegetative state for 16 years and has received food and water through a feeding tube.Beppino Englaro, Eluana's father, has been seeking the right to remove the feeding tube and starve and dehydrate Eluana to death in the same way... Life News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043543/posts#comment Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:13:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030289/posts Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Americans will have an opportunity to review the life and death of Terri Schiavo tonight and next week as the television program a disabled woman produces will focus on how Terri was subjected to a painful euthanasia death. Joni Eareckson Tada, whose ministry produces "Joni and Friends," is behind the show. Like Schiavo, Tada is a disabled woman herself -- having become paralyzed at a younger age in a diving accident. Tada has put together two 30 minutes programs airing tonight and July 19 that will explore the debate surrounding Terri and be broadcast globally via... Life News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030289/posts#comment Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:29:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029709/posts Orlando, FL (LifeNews.com) -- Terri Schiavo died from a painful starvation and dehydration euthanasia death at the hands of her former husband over three years ago. Yet, Terri's family is still having problems getting the mainstream media to report the story of her life and death accurately. In the most recent case, the Orlando Sentinel newspaper is under fire for a news article that wrongly referenced Terri Schiavo as "brain dead."On Saturday, May 24, 2008, Aaron Deslatte, a reporter from the newspaper, published the story with the erroneous claim.Terri's brother Bobby Schindler called and left repeated messages for Deslatte to... Life News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029709/posts#comment Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:05:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2027674/posts The controversial and colorful advocate for the disabled, Harriet McBryde Johnson, died earlier this week at her Charleston home. Johnson first came to national prominence when she publicly challenged Princeton’s Peter Singer on the ethics of euthanizing profoundly disabled infants, and dedicated her life to improving the quality of life for those in institutions she called the “gulag”:Harriet McBryde Johnson, a feisty champion of the rights of the disabled who came to prominence after she challenged a Princeton professor’s contention that severely disabled newborns could ethically be euthanized, died on Wednesday at her home in Charleston, S.C. She was 50.... Hot Air http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2027674/posts#comment Sat, 7 Jun 2008 21:38:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025644/posts A Florida woman put on a feeding tube after she had a stroke is at the center of a court case that is eerily similar to the lengthy legal dispute over whether Terri Schiavo should be kept alive. Orlando Sentinel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025644/posts#comment Wed, 4 Jun 2008 03:02:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2020482/posts FORT WORTH, TEXAS, May 22, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A Peruvian man whose American doctors reportedly sought to starve and dehydrate him to death was spared Wednesday after the family alerted the Peruvian media and a pro-life Texas attorney intervened in the case. According to Peruvian media reports, Jesus Sanchez, 56, had been in a coma for over five months in John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas, after suffering a heart attack after a soccer game.  After the hospital's board of ethics reviewed his case, his condition was pronounced "irreversible".  The hospital announced that it would deprive Sanchez of food and... LifeSiteNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2020482/posts#comment Fri, 23 May 2008 23:20:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013833/posts Pro-life advocates are launching an e-mail campaign in an attempt to save the life of a young woman injured by a drug overdose who now is facing the possibility of a court-ordered death by dehydration and starvation.WND previously has reported on the case involve Randy Richardson, who is fighting his ex-wife, the medical establishment and the court system for the life of his 23-year-old daughter, Lauren Marie Richardson."She's committed no crime and doesn't deserve to have this death imposed on her," he told the Wilmington, Del., News Journal earlier, citing the case that carries striking parallels to the 2005... WorldNetDaily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013833/posts#comment Sat, 10 May 2008 00:55:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2011148/posts On April 7 an article appeared on the Opinion page, "Terri Schiavo's lifesaving legacy" by Nat Hentoff. When Terri's story first appeared in the paper and on the news, I considered responding to the decisions that were made regarding her care and her future. I feel that God gave us life and only he has the right to take it away and we are charged with caring for one another until that time. In 1984 I was told to put my son in a nursing home because "he will never get better." Had we followed that advice we may have... The Evening Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2011148/posts#comment Sun, 4 May 2008 20:29:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1999791/posts Princeton, NJ (LifeNews.com) -- Terri Schiavo's brother Bobby Schindler has been on a speaking tour this week that's taking him to colleges and universities across the country. Schindler was at Princeton University on Tuesday and he told students there that misconceptions still exist about his sister's euthanasia death. Terri died in March 2005 after her former husband won a court order to take her life despite requests from the Schindler family to provide her with medical and rehabilitative care.Though more than three years have passed since the Schindler family's lost their years-long legal battle to save her life, Schindler says... Life News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1999791/posts#comment Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:44:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1994758/posts Recently, and for the second time in less than a year, presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama stated that his greatest regret as a Senator was not objecting to a vote that was intended to help save my sister from being dehydrated to death. Senator Obama went so far as to say that this type of “inaction” (failure to speak out against the Senate’s unanimous consent to allow Terri the same due process allowed the most vicious of criminals) can sometimes prove to be just as costly as taking action. One has to wonder what could possibly have been “more costly”... Townhall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1994758/posts#comment Tue, 1 Apr 2008 00:17:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1994648/posts St. Petersburg, FL (LifeNews.com) -- Terri Schiavo's family and a leading pro-life group are calling on people to honor the disabled woman whose husband took her life in a painful euthanasia death. Together with Priests for Life, the Schindler family has established the observance of “Terri’s Day” each March 31. That's the day Terri succumbed to a 13-day starvation and dehydration death at the hand of Michael Schiavo, her former husband who won a court order to take her life.“This third anniversary should be an occasion for all of us to both remember the injustice done to Terri, and reach... Life News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1994648/posts#comment Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:52:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1994341/posts It is time to again remember Terri Schiavo, who was a bit of a last straw for me and "faith" in political leaders (particularly Republican ones). I remember back in 1984 when Ronald Reagan spoke out about the state of Nebraska and its restrictions on Christian schools and home schools. Court injunctions were affecting church pastors, parents and in one case a church was even padlocked. Fathers of some students were jailed on contempt of court. A group of pastors were dragged out of a church by police. Reagan spoke of the distrubing pictures of the pastors being dragged out.... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1994341/posts#comment Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:34:53 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/1981633/posts Tampa, FL (LifeNews.com) -- The foundation that Terri Schiavo's family created after her death is continuing its efforts to help the elderly and disabled obtain appropriate medical care. The foundation is launching a new radio program on a Tampa station that will be simulcast on the Internet and later expanded to other Florida stations. The Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation will start the new America's Lifeline program this weekend life from the Tampa studios of Talk Radio 860 WGUL, a Christian station.Prominent radio health care advocate Cary Hall will co-sponsor the program along with Terri's brother Bobby Schinder and her sister... Life News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1981633/posts#comment Fri, 7 Mar 2008 00:34:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1980201/posts The rumors about Florida Gov. Charlie Crist and the Green Iguana just wouldn't go away. The story goes that the Florida governor frequented the Green Iguana, a bar in Tampa, back in the early 1990s when he was just starting his political career. He was less careful back then, people say, and during his partying at the Green Iguana, he was openly gay. When I got Rick Calderoni, the bar's well-known owner, on the phone, I expected him to stonewall me about it. He didn't. Calderoni, who is gay, confirmed that Crist came into his bar quite often and that... Broward-Palm Beach New Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1980201/posts#comment Tue, 4 Mar 2008 15:41:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1977393/posts Contact: Suzanne Vitadamo, Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation, 727-490-7603, infor@terrisfight.org ST. PETERSBURG, Florida, Feb. 27 /Christian Newswire/ -- In a presidential debate last night, Sen. Barack Obama, (D-Ill), said, for the second time this year, that he regretted supporting federal legislation aimed at saving the life of Terri Schiavo. He even suggested the legal efforts to stop Terri's death by dehydration and starvation constituted a "costly" action. "We welcome the opportunity that Senator Obama has given us to once again strive for clarity regarding the death of our beloved Terri," her father Robert Schindler said. "However, we are very saddened by... Christian Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1977393/posts#comment Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:23:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1977374/posts Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Terri Schiavo's family and a leading pro-life group blasted pro-abortion presidential candidate Barack Obama on Wednesday. They took issue with his comments during Tuesday night's debate where he said his "biggest mistake" of his political career was voting for a bill to help save Terri Schiavo's life.Obama said, for the second time, that he regretted supporting federal legislation allowing Terri's family to have a chance to take their lawsuit to prevent Terri's euthanasia death to federal court.The Schindler family ultimately lost the lawsuit and Terri was subjected to a painful 14-day starvation and dehydration death."We... Life News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1977374/posts#comment Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:56:31 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/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