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 Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 10:48 pm Post subject: Will Schiavo be next victim of euthanasia? |
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Will Schiavo be next victim of euthanasia?
The countdown has begun.
http://www.mccl.org/fp_news/Terri_Shiavo.htm
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After exhausting all legal and medical appeals, the family of Terri Schindler-Schiavo can do little more than wait for their loved one to die. Only a Herculean effort on the part of the Florida Legislature can save Terri now.
Healthcare workers removed Terri's gastrostomy or “feeding tube” Oct. 15 under order of Pinellas-Pasco County, Fla., Circuit Judge George Greer. The completion of this court-ordered killing of 39-year-old Terri will likely take 10-15 days as she succumbs to dehydration and starvation, according to doctors.
Unexplained injuries
In February 1990, Terri Schiavo suffered a brain injury under questionable circumstances, cutting off oxygen to her brain for several minutes. Neurologically disabled, Terri has continued to respond in limited ways according to her parents and siblings, who have faced repeated rejection by the court system in Florida to intervene to assure basic medical care or appropriate rehabilitation for Terri.
In November 1992, in a trial involving medical malpractice, Terri's husband, Michael Schiavo, requested $20 million for her future medical needs. He assured the jury, which awarded $9.4 million for Terri's medical care and rehabilitation, that he would take care of Terri, “in a heartbeat …. She's my life and I wouldn't trade her for the world. I believe in my wedding vows.” The malpractice jury also awarded Michael $640,000 for loss of consortium of his wife.
Terri's husband wants her dead...
Husband wants Terri dead Since that time, Michael has spent virtually all Terri's money to get the courts to pull the feeding tube. He seems to want his wife dead. In court, a nurse testified he frequently asked, “Is that b---- dead yet?” Terri received no physical therapy, despite expert medical testimony that she could learn to swallow and therefore eat and drink normally. Terri never even got routine teeth cleaning all those years.
While Terri languished, Michael went on with his life with a live-in girlfriend. He had a baby with her and now awaits the birth of their second child. He's still legally married to Terri and will not divorce her.
Meanwhile, Terri is still alive, awake, and responsive - not in a coma, not vegetative, not dying. She needs a tube for nutrition and fluids but is not on any machine or life support.
The legal battle continues because Terri's parents want their daughter to live. They want to care for her as long as her natural life lasts. They have spent all their savings and retirement and are deeply in debt to save their daughter's life. They want her to have food and water.
Courts won't let Terri live But Florida won't budge. Michael is Terri's guardian and has primary rights.
Michael says Terri once mentioned she never wanted to live hooked up to machines. All Terri requires is a feeding tube. But the courts have sided with Michael. Apparently a disabled life isn't worth living, so end it by euthanasia.
Why doesn't Michael simply divorce Terri? Why not let Terri's parents take the responsibility of their daughter's care? Indeed, why not let Terri live and die on her own? Michael won't say why he wants her starved, dehydrated and dead.
As a final indignity, a priest said on Sunday, Oct. 19, that he was blocked from giving Terri Schiavo her last holy communion at the hospice where she lives. Legislature attempts to block court order The Florida Legislature held a special session on Monday, Oct. 20. Florida's Speaker of the House was expected to introduce “Terri's Bill.” By Florida law, a two-thirds majority vote is required to have a topic entered.
The bill would put an immediate moratorium on all dehydration and starvation deaths currently pending in Florida.
The emergency bill is Terri's last hope of life. Will Florida lawmakers rule that Terri has a right to life, or that the state has the right to kill her?
Information on Terri's fight for life is posted on Terri' s Fight <http://www.terrisfight.org>, the family website, and at Pray For Terri <http://www.prayforterri.net>.
ACTION ALERT: (10/21/03 )
Your immediate action is needed to help save the life of Terri Schindler-Schiavo.
BACKGROUND Terri's feeding tube was removed last Wednesday and she has now been six days without food or water. Last night, at the urging of Governor Jeb Bush, the Florida State House passed a bill authorizing the Governor to order her feeding tube to be reinserted and for her feeding to be resumed immediately.
The bill is now in the Florida State Senate. Calls, faxes, and e-mails are urgently needed to Florida State Senate President, Jim King urging him to pass "Terri's Bill," authorizing the Governor to have the feeding of Terri resumed. Time is crucial for Terri. Please Act Immediately and alert all chapter telephone and e-mail trees, notify churches or anyone who might be capable of activating calls, faxes and emails.
Senator Jim King Phone: 850)487-5229 Fax: 850)487-5844
Email: king.james.web@flsenate.gov |
See also - our current Terri Schiavo Story and timeline updated daily.
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Will Florida put to death this disabled woman, opening the door to euthanasia?
A stay of execution saved Terri Schiavo’s life Oct. 22, 2003 but the battle to kill her goes on.
Thanks to Gov. Jeb Bush and the help of the Florida Legislature, an emaciated Terri is back on food and hydration while the courts continue to seek her death. A constitutional battle is brewing over Gov. Bush’s authority to order Terri’s food and water restored.
The media insist that Terri’s case is a right to die issue. Her loving family continues to ask the obvious question: How far will Terri’s husband and the judiciary go to become parties to her murder? Following is an account of her saga. First, some background:
Terri’s ‘accident’
In February 1990, Terri Schindler Schiavo suffered a brain injury under questionable circumstances, cutting off oxygen to her brain for several minutes.
Neurologically disabled, Terri has continued to respond in limited ways according to her parents and siblings, who have faced repeated rejection by the court system in Florida to intervene to assure basic medical care or appropriate rehabilitation for Terri.
Terri responds to her mother's greeting
During an examination, Terri is asked to track a balloon with her eyes. She does, and the Dr. says, "You see that, don't you!" During his testimony, however, he called Terri "totally unresponsive".
In a November 1992 trial involving medical malpractice, Terri’s husband, Michael Schiavo, requested $20 million for her future medical needs. He assured the jury, which awarded $9.4 million for Terri’s medical care and rehabilitation, that he would take care of Terri, “in a heartbeat. ... She’s my life and I wouldn’t trade her for the world. I believe in my wedding vows.” The malpractice jury also awarded Michael $640,000 for loss of consortium of his wife.
Meanwhile, Terri is still alive, awake, and responsive — not in a coma, not vegetative, not dying. She needs a tube for nutrition and fluids but is not on any machine or life support.
Note: Due to the dynamic nature of this story we are continuously adding to it as new events unfold.
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Terri's husband wants her dead...
Since that time, Michael has spent virtually all Terri’s money to get the courts to pull the feeding tube. He seems to want his wife dead. In court, a nurse testified he frequently asked, “Is that b---- dead yet?” Terri received no physical therapy, despite expert medical testimony that she could learn to swallow and therefore eat and drink normally. Terri never even got routine teeth cleaning all those years.
While Terri languished, Michael went on with his life with a live-in girlfriend. He had a baby with her and now awaits the birth of their second child. He’s still legally married to Terri and will not divorce.
The legal battle continues because Terri’s parents want their daughter to live. They want to care for her as long as her natural life lasts. They have spent all their savings and retirement and are deeply in debt to save their daughter’s life. They want her to have food and water.
Following is a timeline of unfolding events in Terri’s euthanasia case.
Saturday, Aug. 30, 2003
Terri’s parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, filed a federal lawsuit against Terri’s husband, Michael Schiavo, his attorney, George Felos, and two of the nursing facilities where Terri was kept in the past. The suit alleged violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and Terri’s civil rights under the First, Fifth and 14th Amendments. The action was filed after three of Terri’s former caregivers submitted sworn affidavits claiming years of denied medical care, altered or destroyed medical records, and alleged attempts by Michael to kill his wife.
Terri’s parents claim she is alert, responsive and could benefit from rehabilitative therapies that Michael has refused to allow. The Schindlers claim that Michael wants Terri to die, in part, so he will be able to take advantage of what is left of a $700,000 insurance settlement.
Right-to-die activists like Michael’s attorney, George Felos, play on the term “medical treatment,” suggesting that it includes being given food and water. They suggest that patients who are not otherwise dying but are unable to ingest food by mouth should be allowed to refuse (or have withheld) food and water and thus die by starvation. Indeed, hospitals and doctors routinely treat CPR and nutrition as “extraordinary care” to be withheld. Pro-life leaders in Holland have warned that a case along those very lines opened the door to euthanasia in the Netherlands.
Disability rights advocacy groups are watching the case closely, concerned that allowing Terri to starve to death would signal that people with disabilities are not worth keeping alive.
Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2003
Pinellas Circuit Judge George W. Greer refused to delay the removal of Terri’s feeding tube scheduled for Oct. 15. Greer said he was following orders from the Second District Court of Appeal when he scheduled the date to have the feeding tube removed that provides nourishment to Terri. Greer added he believed he no longer had jurisdiction to postpone it. Doctors say the 39-year-old woman is expected to die of starvation or dehydration within 10 to 15 days.
Terri’s parents had asked Greer to postpone the removal while they appeal his recent decision denying swallowing therapy that might help her relearn to eat and drink.
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush filed a brief with the federal court, suggesting that the judge gather more information before ruling. “In light of the seriousness of this matter, and the inability to remedy an improper outcome, the governor has a strong interest in ensuring that Terri Schiavo’s fundamental right to life is not deprived without due process of law,” Bush wrote.
Unlike Terri’s parents, Bush had conceded Judge Greer’s determination that Terri would not want to be kept alive artificially. The governor argued that new tests should be administered to determine if Terri could orally ingest food and water.
“Neither oral feeding, nor the tests and therapy to accomplish oral feeding, would violate Terri’s wishes. Only her wish to be free of artificial life support has been proved by clear and convincing evidence, not a wish to die,” Bush stated in his 12-page brief. “While Terri may not be able to eat orally again, there is enough doubt as to her potential for that limited rehabilitation that to do otherwise deprives her of her life without due process.”
Friday, Oct. 10, 2003
A federal judge in Florida refused to take jurisdiction over Terri’s case. U.S. District Judge Richard Lazzara also refused to enter an injunction to order tests to determine if Terri can swallow food on her own prior to the scheduled removal of her feeding tube Oct. 15. The Schindlers had earlier filed a federal discrimination lawsuit seeking to remove Terri’s husband Michael as guardian, and to order swallowing therapy for Terri.
In a motion filed Oct. 6, Michael’s attorney George Felos asked the judge to dismiss the Schindlers’ suit or find in favor of Michael. The motion also disputed the claims by Terri’s family that Michael stifled attempts to provide her with rehabilitation and other therapy. It was that motion that Judge Lazzara granted Friday.
Monday, Oct. 13, 2003[/b[
With her feeding tube removal scheduled on Wednesday, Terri’s friends, family and supporters staged a rally and began a round-the-clock prayer vigil for her outside the hospice where she lives. “We love our daughter very much and we want her home. Over the last 13 years, Terri has laughed with us, cried with us, talked with us, and even tried to get out of her chair. The accusations that Terri is in a coma or is a ‘vegetable’ are a lie,” Bob and Marcy Schindler said in a statement.
[b]Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2003
Terri’s family released videotape that shows Terri communicating with her mother and proves she is not in a “vegetative state.” The videotape was recorded secretly in defiance of an order by Circuit Court Judge Greer that the family not provide Terri with rehabilitative care or take pictures or video of her. At one point in the video, made in August 2001, Mary Schindler says Terri’s name as she enters the room and Terri’s eyes light up as she attempts to sit upright in her bed. Later on, Terri is asked whether she can say the word “mom” and she has difficulties accomplishing the task. “She gets frustrated, you can hear it in her voice, when she can’t communicate like I’m sure she wants to, it’s difficult for her,” said Mary. “But that’s her best effort to say, ‘I’m in here, and I’m trying to talk to you.’” George Felos, Michael Schiavo’s attorney, quickly wrote a letter to Greer saying Michael would block any further unsupervised visits by the Schindlers if they violated Greer’s order again
Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2003
Doctors removed Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube. Although Terri was not hooked up to any artificial breathing apparatus, the feeding tube provided her with food and water that allowed her to remain alive. Terri’s father Bob confirmed that the tube had been removed and attorneys for her husband, Michael, said doctors have told them it will take anywhere from a week to 10 days for her to die. “I just haven’t given up hope yet,” Mary Schindler told reporters outside the hospice. After a 20-minute meeting with Terri’s parents, Bush promised to ask his legal staff to find any method for him to intervene to help Terri.
Thursday, Oct. 16, 2003
Gov. Bush said that his legal team has looked and found no way that he can overturn a judge’s decision to remove the feeding tube that was helping Terri stay alive. Bush said he was concerned about Terri’s life but says he doesn’t have the legal power to contradict the judge’s decision, which has been upheld in rulings by other courts.
Friday, Oct. 17, 2003
Two courts denied another last-minute effort by Terri’s parents to save her. Bob and Mary Schindler filed a motion that would have required reinserting Terri’s feeding tube and mandated that Gov. Bush intervene on Terri’s behalf. Leon County Circuit Court Judge Jonathan Sjostrom rejected the writ of mandamus almost immediately after it was filed in Tallahassee saying it should have been filed in Pinellas County where Terri is living.
The Schindlers appealed to the First District Court of Appeal, which, without comment, refused to hear the case. Some 19 judges and six courts have been involved in the decade-long lawsuit.
Bush said there is no way that he can overturn a judge’s decision to remove the feeding tube. But several attorneys, including a former prosecutor of assisted suicide crusader Jack Kevorkian, say that’s not necessary. All that is needed, they say, is for Bush to call an investigation into the case — specifically into Michael’s conflict of interest and allegations that he physically abused Terri causing the heart attack that originally placed her in the coma-like state.
Thompson said that if Bush fails to act quickly, Terri will die or, if the feeding tube can be reinserted, her condition will have vastly deteriorated. Meanwhile, the Schindlers are not giving up hope and hoping Bush will act on the letters from Thompson and other attorneys.
“We’re waiting to hear from Gov. Bush” on the letters, Bob Schindler told national talk radio host Sean Hannity Thursday afternoon. Schindler said Gov. Bush’s response “probably is our last hope.”
Terri could die from dehydration as early as Saturday some experts have predicted.
Saturday, Oct. 18, 2003
At the hospice where Terri lays dying, hospice officials and police prevented a Catholic priest who has visited Terri weekly from giving her a final Holy Communion. The Washington Times reports that police told Monsignor Thaddeus Malinowski the giving of Communion would violate a doctor’s order saying nothing could be placed in her mouth to prevent choking.
The priest assured the officers there would be no danger of that since he would use “a small piece of the wafer and dilute it with water before giving it to her.” He stressed, “It’s a very important part of her faith.” He was told he would be physically restrained if he attempted to give her the final Viaticum.
Sunday, Oct. 19, 2003
Mary Schindler gathered her precious daughter in her arms, pressing her face to Terri’s and whispering to her. Minutes passed. Terri, as usual, was smiling at her mother and vocalizing, while Mary stroked her hair and whispered. The two “supervisors” Michael has unilaterally determined must be present before her mother can be allowed to visit were teary-eyed. Even the armed police officer Michael insists must be present was teary-eyed.
Today, outside the Hospice Center where Terri is being starved and dehydrated to death, protesters from more than a dozen states cut up their voter cards and circulated Democrat registration forms — pledging to never again vote Republican.
Gov. Bush admitted, through his lawyer, that he does have the legal power and constitutional responsibility to intervene. Seven legal experts have cited a number of Florida statutes that support that claim.
It was reported that the governor’s office received more than 135,000 petitions and 50,000 e-mails, and apparently, there are four people assigned to handle the calls to 850-488-7146.
At the request of the Florida Advocacy Center for Persons with Disabilities, U.S. District Judge Moore agreed to an emergency hearing in this case. The group asked for a temporary restraining order, for Terri to be fed immediately, and for a 10-day investigation.
Suspicions that Michael was somehow involved in Terri’s becoming disabled were fueled when it was revealed Saturday that he requested her body be cremated immediately following her death. Terri’s family has asked at least for an autopsy to determine how she sustained injuries which were discovered only long after her paralysis. One year after Terri’s collapse, a bone scan revealed that she had compression fractures and apparent traumatic injuries. Attorneys with the Thomas More Legal Center, a pro-life law firm, are worried that cremation would destroy any evidence investigators could use to ascertain whether Terri was a victim of domestic abuse. The evidence, along with the lack of medical care given to Terri during two recent hospitalizations, gives Bush “probable cause” to investigate, the attorneys say.
The attorneys say Michael has conflicts of interest because he is living with another woman while still legally married to Terri. He and his girlfriend have one child already and are expecting another. They also say Michael has violated a promise to a jury that $700,000 of a $1.5 million medical malpractice judgment awarded to him would be used to pay for rehabilitative and medical care for Terri. After Michael received the award, he placed a “do not resuscitate” order on Terri.
Michael adamantly denies having abused or mistreated his wife.
Monday, Oct. 20, 2003
Florida Gov. Bush called a special session of the Florida Legislature for Monday, Oct. 20. Florida’s Speaker of the House Johnny Byrd introduced “Terri’s Bill.” By Florida law, two-thirds majority vote are required to have a topic entered.
Volunteers with the Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation learned that Senate President Jim King is against the bill. The bill would put an immediate moratorium on all dehydration and starvation deaths currently pending in Florida.
Terri’s parents, devout Catholics, maintain hope nonetheless. They are joined in their round-the-clock vigil outside the hospice where their daughter is starving to death by many pro-lifers and Christian groups of all denominations have joined in prayer and are lending a hand in the effort to sustain the constant vigil. Disabled people, some exposing their plastic feeding tubes, held signs such as “Am I Next?” and “Being Disabled Is not a Crime.”
Meanwhile in Washington, disability rights group Not Dead Yet is organizing a protest in front of the White House.
Canadian Immigration Minister Dennis Coderre today refused a request to grant asylum in Canada to Terri. Canadian disabled activist Mark Pickup, president of HumanLifeMatters.com, had made the asylum request for Terri, having secured promises of care for the disabled woman by Canadian doctors and nurses who volunteered.
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You wouldn't starve a dog to death, but it is okay to starve a human being to death. That's ok? So what is next? This is a sin from the PIT OF HELL! 
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Urgent Letter Below from Terri Schiavo's Father!
Why would Death by STARVATION be an option in this case or any other. What is going on in this country? People are fined and sometimes even jailed for allowing animals to starve. How can DEATH By STARVATION even be CONSIDERED as a solution. This is MURDER by BTK (Bind - Torture - Kill). Terri Shiavo is bound in a body that isn't working properly, starvation causes such great pain and suffering and finally ... death. Those convicted of murder and sentenced to death many times have a choice of death by electric chair or lethal injection. Even IF Terri's choice had been death, would she have chosen Death by STARVATION? If it were me I would want to use an alternate method and my heart tells me that she would too. ~Vickie Barker
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.
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Urgent Letter Below from Terri Schiavo's Father
Help Save My Daughter From Starvation!
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 daughter was left severely brain-damaged.
But before I go any further, I must put an end to the lies and misinformation that are circulating around the country through the media concerning my daughter's condition.
Contrary to anything you may have heard, Terri is NOT brain dead; Terri is NOT in a coma; she is NOT in a "persistent vegetative state;" nor is she on ANY life-support system.
Terri Schiavo responds to her mother's touch Terri laughs, Terri cries, she moves, and she makes child-like attempts at speech with her mother and me. Sometimes she will say "Mom" or "Dad" or "yeah" when we ask her a question. When I kiss her hello or goodbye, she looks at me and "puckers up" her lips.
This may not seem like much to you, but it means everything to Terri's mother and me. It tells us she is still here, she still knows us, and with therapy and time she can have some level of recovery.
I know that there are some hard hearted people who believe that due to my daughters condition, she is better off dead. Words cannot describe the pain and anger such sentiments cause us. This is our daughter, our little girl, and even in her disabled condition, she still has the right to life and the right to be loved and cared for by her family.
Why, you may ask, is Terry in danger of death by starvation?
It is a long and outrageous story, but I'll give it to you as briefly as I can.
After the "incident" that left Terry in this condition, her husband Michael Schiavo sued various members of the medical community for money, saying that they did not treat or diagnose her properly at an early stage, and that he needed this money to provide for Terri's therapy and rehabilitation and care.
After lengthy court battles, he finally won upwards of $1.7 million under the guise of caring for our daughter, and then to our horror, he immediately began spending the money on himself and his Playboy lifestyle.
Terri's estranged husband Michael Schiavo has been living with another woman for years, and has two children by her. He is determined to see Terri dead. Why? We believe it's because he gets to keep whatever money is left... and he may have even darker motives than that.
To add insult to all of this injury toward my daughter, Michael Schiavo is still her "legal husband" and therefore is her "guardian." And since they are not legally divorced, he controls whatever health care she will and will not get. We are not even allowed to know if she is getting aspirin.
In 1993 my family initiated litigation against Michael Schiavo solely for the purpose of acquiring medical, physical and neurological assistance for our daughter Terri. The litigation escalated in 1998 when Michael Schiavo petitioned the court to stop Terri from receiving food and water, thereby starving her to death.
In filing this legal action, he retained the services of a high profile euthanasia attorney and the financial backing of powerful euthanasia organizations. He also used Terri's medical rehabilitation money to underwrite much of the legal expenses associated with his effort to starve our daughter to death.
We know that he has spent nearly $500,000 of Terri's money in attorney's fees for just one attorney trying to obtain a court order to have Terri starved to death. The very money that was supposed to be used for Terri's rehabilitation is being used to have her killed.
We very quickly discovered it was impossible for us to compete with the abundance of financial and legal resources the pro-death organizations were providing Micheal Schiavo in their effort to kill Terri. They are pouring time and effort into her starvation because they want to use this case to further the agenda of legalized euthanasia.
My wife and I are not wealthy people. Throughout those years, we did not have any large organizations trying to help rescue our daughter. Consequently, we had to rely on the generosity of attorneys who were willing to offer their legal expertise at no cost or at reduced fees.
The bottom line is that we are in the final weeks or months [note: March 18th 2005 is the date for removal of food and water] of our struggle to rescue our daughter from an untimely death by starvation. Death by starvation is very slow, and extremely painful. As you must know, it is against the law to deliberately starve an animal to death. There are members of the Florida court who would not treat a dog the way they plan to treat my daughter.
At this point we must pull out all the stops in our fight to rescue our daughter.
As parents, we are desperate to save our daughter's life. As people who love life, we are determined to deprive the euthanasia advocates of successfully legalizing this form of homicide. We believe that their efforts to kill Terri are designed to set a precedent for the future eradication of defenseless disabled human beings. I was alive when Americans fought the Nazis; I do not want my daughter to meet the same fate of thousands of disabled people in Nazi Germany, and I do not want our country to go down that same dark path.
Friend, though we have never met, I'm asking you for your help. We desperately need your financial assistance to help our family continue the battle to keep our daughter from being starved to death. There are so many expenses in a case like this it is mind-boggling and overwhelming. Please click below to make a contribution now:
https://secure.cartlight.com/merchant/terri/?afid=maxb
Our adversaries believe that by our family's financial attrition and difficulties, they will attain their objective of killing our daughter.
Presently, Terri's starvation may only be a few weeks away, unless we find the financial resources to prevent this atrocity from becoming a reality.
I implore you to please help us. We are writing to you, because we believe you have a heart for justice and mercy. I'm asking you to put yourself in my shoes, and then do whatever you can to help our family. Whether it is $10 or $1000, we are desperate for the resources to fight this battle for our daughter's life at this critical juncture.
Please do whatever you can, and forward this e-mail to any friends or family that you have who you think might be interested in saving Terri's life.
I thank you for your time, your concern, and I solicit your prayers for Terri and our entire family. These have been very trying times for us all.
Sincerely,
Bob Schindler Sr.
http://www.advancedhealthplan.com/terri.html
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Thinking BOR couldn't sink much lower, waiting foir Hannity & Colmes to come on, I watched him earlier. HIs main concern is that Libs didn't try harder to stop Terri's Bill. He also stated she was being cared for on taxpayers money and never asked why, since she was awarded 1.3 Million dollars for care that her husband has apparently squandered.
I was wrong, he could sink lower.
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Yep, I was rummaging in my dresser for a needle and thread (a needle with an eye that I can actually see is a slim commodity around here - those dang things get smaller every year!) and BOR happened to be on in my room. (I was watching Special Report this afternoon)
The typical Bill O'Reilly that I came to expect during the Swift Vets attempts to make themselves heard. Dismiss the real issues and focus on the inane and irrelevant. He made this into a financial issue.
Thank God Newt Gingrich plays tennis so well - he kept flipping the discussion back to the real issues and got a few points in - most notably that there is a big difference between being on life support machines and being given basic nutrition and hydration.
This federal judge isn't encouraging so far. At the very least, I would have expected an order to replace the feeding tube until a decision had been rendered. Further brain damage is possibly already occurring as the effects of dehydration set in.
Every hour now brings with it the possibilty of exacerbation of the disabilities.
Where are the anti-death penalty protestors?
Is it only convicted rapists and murderers who should not be condemned to die in our courts?
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They have constitutionally protected rights, thanks to our bleeding heart liberals. However, those same BHLs don't give a rats patooti about disabled humans like Terri.
A dog gets treated better by them than a disabled human. 
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If you chained up a dog and kept it from food and water and had people guarding to make sure nobody could sneak in food or water, you would do jail time. And that is here in La-La Land, on the Far Left coast (swimming pools, movie stars).
It's too bad that poor woman didn't manage to kill somebody before she had her medical problems. Then she would have protection out the wazoo.
What I just don't get is how they can say with a straight face that it's humane or legal or whatever to starve somebody to death. If she is completely gone (mentally) and never coming back, and you are determined to kill her, then for God's sake do what you'd do to a murderer or your pet dog. A quick injection and lights out.
Now, don't get me wrong. I'm not advocating they kill her. I'm just saying this is so freaking barbaric that killing her quickly would be merciful.
I like what a local talk show guy is saying: Judge Greer and the husband need to be charged with premeditated murder if/when she dies.
The husband has the money and he has a new honey. Why not just divorce her and let her parents figure out a way to pay for her care? I'd chip in what I could. Is he afraid people will think he's a lower form of ******* than an old druggie that rapes and murders kids (that Couey creep)? Now most of the country knows he is. I used to think there's nothing lower than a child molester. Turns out I was wrong.
Tonight Hannity & Colmes interviewed a Nobel Prize winning doctor who specializes in treating people like Terri Schiavo. He evaluated Terri for 10 hours at no charge. The doctor said he can help her make progress, he can help her improve. He said dozens of other doctors around the country agree that she isn't as bad off as some people are claiming.
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I heard tonight on Scarborough which will be repeated at 3am EST, that the original doctor that treated Terri was on.
He said that it didn't look like she had a heart attack. He also said this episode happened the day after Terri told her parents she was leaving the "husband".
There is no shortage of witnesses that what happened to Terri and how she has been treated is a crime. But just like the Swiftvets, the media ignores the key points of the case.
No one has ever made an issue of how Mr. Schiavo can claim to still be a "husband" when he has a common law wife with two children. No one has questioned Schiavo about that or about why he withdrew all therapy in 1993 or what happened to the insurance settlement meant to take care of Terri.
Instead, the media run these bogus online polls, which we saw during the Presidential campaign, are being manipulated by the left.
Now, an obviously leftist judge is refusing to rule all the while knowing the victim is starving to death. He thinks that if he waits long enough, there won't be a problem anymore. You can't get more callous than that.
So, the media or should I say, leftist propaganda machine, has condemned Terri to a horrible death. They are aiding and abetting a likely criminal; there is plenty of evidence to support this allegation.
When a judge can order someone starved to death and no one seems to be able to stop it, everyone should be very scared. |
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The judge that is hearing Terri's case was appointed by Clinton. Not good. He did not have Terri's feeding tube put back in while the case is looked into. I am afraid that this judge will go along with the liberals at Terri's expense.
Animals are treated more humanely than Terri has been. This is a man that moved on with his life, has a common law wife, children....in my book nothing more than a two bit adulter. The only reason he is in her life is to take out her feeding tube and kill her.
No one is talking about the fact that as her "husband" he has the guardian rights to a book and movie once she passes and stands to make millions more to squander on God knows what.
That man is pure evil from the pit of hell. Oh...btw....where is PETA....fish matter? A fishes pain matters, well what about the pain of a human being being starved to death? What has this society we live in reduced us to?
All I say now is this is in God's hands and God bless poor Terri and her family. May the Lord comfort them all. |
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