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(AP) DENVER With health costs rising, one state lawmaker thinks it's time to start discussing whether the state can afford to pay to treat smokers who get lung cancer, heart disease and other diseases linked to tobacco. Sen. Ron Teck, R-Grand Junction, wants to put people who continue to smoke despite the health risks on notice. Under a proposal set to be reviewed Wednesday at the state Capitol, people who started smoking before 1975 would still be eligible for Medicaid payments to treat smoking-related illnesses.

Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation Urges Wife of Disabled Jacksonville Man to Err on the Side of LifeTo: National DeskContact: Pamela F. Hennessy for the Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation, 727-445-1766, phenn@zimp.orgCLEARWATER, Fl., May 14 /Christian Wire Service/ –- The volunteers with the Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation, along with the family of Terri Schiavo, are urging Jacksonville, Florida resident, Eliza Thomas, to allow her 34 year old husband to live.The Foundation has learned that Scott Thomas suffered brain injury in September of 2004 and has since been incapacitated and dependent on others. His mother, Pamela Patton, has petitioned the courts for guardianship of the...

Brussels – Nearly half the newborn babies who died in Flanders over a recent year-long period were helped to die by their doctors, a new study reported yesterday. Paediatricians in the Dutch-speaking region of Belgium either discreetly stopped treating the babies or, in 17 cases, illegally killed them with lethal doses of painkillers. The study, published in The Lancet, examined the deaths of every baby who died within a year of birth in Flanders between August 1999 and July 2000. The results of a survey on the causes of death were stark: paediatricians who responded to the survey admitted they...

THE SLIDE TO AUSCHWITZ By: C. Everett Koop, M.D. In July the City Council of Cambridge, Massachusetts, voted to petition Harvard University to temporarily halt the construction of a half million dollar laboratory for specialized genetics research. This intervention of the town in the affairs of the University was not just the hysterical reaction of ignorant people to the misunderstood pursuits of a scientific faculty. Rather, it had been initiated and pushed by distinguished scholars on the Harvard faculty. These individuals were deeply concerned with the newly acquired power in biology to alter the genes of living organisms and create...

George Felos, perhaps trying to ease his guilt, (though this is unlikely since one must have a conscience to feel guilt) and improve his image as a heartless ogre, went before cameras and fed the world one of the biggest lies it has ever heard. He related how "peaceful and beautiful" Terri is as she lay dying. I guess if dying of dehydration and starvation is so lovely, perhaps we should all die that way. Perhaps we should give that option to criminals on death row. We certainly should stop being concerned about the children in poor countries dying of...

By the time you read this, Terri Schiavo may well be dead, and America will have taken the next step down the road to democide. While the brothers Bush may not have found it within their executive powers to prevent a woman from being legally starved to death, they did manage to con an entire nation into thinking that they did not act because they could not. This is most unfortunate, because it is quite clear that neither George Bush nor his brother Jeb ever had any intention of saving Mrs. Schiavo from death by starvation. Like Pontius Pilate, they...

Pinellas Park police Lt. Kevin Riley, standing upper right, prepares to arrest members of the Keys family as they were attempting to bring Terri Schiavo water Wednesday morning, March 23, 2005 outside the Woodside Hospice in Pinellas Park, Fla. The Keys family, of Burnet, Tex., kneeling, from left, Josie, 14, Gabriel, 10, Chris, the children's father, and Cameron 12, were all taken into custody. Galen Keys, upper left, the children's mother looks on, but was not arrested.The mother insists it was the children's idea: "I am proud of them," said the boys' mother Geilen Keys from Texas, who was not...

FILEDU.S. COURT OF APPEALSELEVENTH CIRCUITMarch 23, 2005THOMAS K. KAHNCLERK[PUBLISH]IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALSFOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUITNo. 05-11556D. C. Docket No. CV-05-00530-TTHERESA MARIA SCHINDLER SCHIAVO,incapacitated ex rel, Robert Schindler andMary Schindler, her parents and next friends,Plaintiffs-Appellants,versusMICHAEL SCHIAVO,as guardian of the person ofTheresa Marie Schindler Schiavo, incapacitated,JUDGE GEORGE W. GREER,THE HOSPICE OF THE FLORIDA SUNCOAST, INC.,Defendants-Appellees.--------------------------Appeal from the United States District Court for theMiddle District of Florida--------------------------(March 23, 2005)Before CARNES, HULL, and WILSON, Circuit Judges.PER CURIAM:Plaintiffs have appealed the district court’s denial of their motion for atemporary restraining order to require the defendants to transport Theresa MarieOur dissenting colleague says...

Just heard on Fox....so sad.

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MARATHON, Fla. -- When rescuers started counting a large group of stranded dolphins in the Florida Keys this morning, they couldn't believe how many there were. So far, the count stands at 96.A group of veterinarians, members of marine mammal rescue groups and volunteers are caring for the wayward rough-tooth dolphins that stranded themselves just off Marathon Key Wednesday afternoon.

Please find below an important message from Terri Shiavo's father, Bob Schindler Sr. They have some important information to share with you regarding new attempts to starve his disabled daughter to death. Please take action right away on this important issue.Thank you.NewsMax.com   Help Save My Daughter From Starvation! (from Terri Schiavo's father) Dear Friend of Life,By now you have probably heard about a young woman who is threatened with starvation in Florida.That young woman is my daughter, Terri. In 1990, through circumstances which are shrouded in mystery (and may involve a criminal act by Terri's estranged husband), my...

The Professor in this story is the one being honored below. http://kyw.com/Local%20News/local_story_243105003.html Professor Accused Of Killing Daughter Found Dead Aug 31, 2003 2:02 pm US/EasternPolice say a Villanova University history professor charged with killing her baby daughter apparently committed suicide in a Minnesota jail.Authorities say Mine Ener was found unconscious with a plastic garbage bag over her head yesterday afternoon. She was lying on a mattress with a blanket over her head in a common area at the Adult Detention Center in downtown Saint Paul.The 38-year-old professor had been charged with killing her six-month-old daughter earlier this month at her...

In March, Shawn Doctor fed her family of six on $235 worth of food stamps -- for the entire month. "By the end there, we were having a hard time," she says. "We didn't have a lot of food in the house, nothing extra." April was only a little bit better. Her husband, Barney Doctor, who was laid off from his factory job in January, picked up some temporary work through Manpower, bringing in a week's worth of wages. But most of that went to pay overdue bills, not stock the cupboards. "We've given up what we used to buy,"...