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The Petition for Terri Schiavo with 100,000 signatures will be delivered to Governor Bush on February 25
- Christian Wire Service via email from Bobby Schindler with comment, “Great News.”
100,000 Names on Petition to Save Terri Schiavo to be Delivered to Representative of Gov. Bush in Tallahassee
Dr. Gary Cass, Executive Director of the Center for Reclaiming America, will deliver the names of 100,000 people who have signed an online petition on behalf of Terri Schiavo at a press conference, Friday, February 25, at 2 p.m. on the Plaza Level of the State Capitol Building in Tallahassee.
“The fact that this petition campaign, which began just yesterday, has generated online signatures at the enormous rate of 5,000 per hour, underscores how passionate people across the nation feel about this issue,” said Dr. Cass. “They want to see Terri spared from the cruel and inhumane death by starvation and dehydration that may commence February 25 at 5 p.m.”
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Let’s just hope & pray that it makes a difference!
/TJ
Do you think that the end of all life support is cruel and unusual? After all, taking someone off machines that aid breathing is like suffocating someone.
Yes, I do. I remember the case of Karen Ann Quinlan? She was the first modern icon of the right-to-die debate. She was only 21 when she collapsed at a party after swallowing alcohol in combination with another drug-I think it was Valium–on 14 April 1975. Doctors saved her life, but she suffered brain damage and lapsed into a “persistent vegetative state.” Her family waged a much-publicized legal battle for the right to remove her life support machinery.
They succeeded, but in a final twist, Quinlan kept breathing after the respirator was unplugged. She remained in a coma for almost 10 years in a New Jersey nursing home until her 1985 death.
It was a key moment in my life, and I had mixed feelings about pulling the plug on her. I just don’t think it’s right.
If it’s a crime to starve a dog to death, it should be a crime to starve a human being to death. Since when have we elevated a dog’s life over that of a human being?
And don’t get me started on the nazis, euthanasia and eugenics. Actually you can get me started…but I’ll have to talk about it later-I don’t have time right now.
Couple of questions;
1. Would this fight have been any different if there was a living will?
2. Since we are rating values of life about starving a dog then is it still OK to put a horse down after it breaks its leg?
3. When does quality of life become an issue?
4. Are you all for the war in Iraq?
5. If you feel this strong about the right to life issue can you approve of war?
6. Is the death penalty OK?
A few questions;
1. Would this fight have been any different if there was a living will?
2. Since we are rating values of life about starving a dog then is it still OK to put a horse down after it breaks its leg?
3. When does quality of life become an issue?
4. Are you all for the war in Iraq?
5. If you feel this strong about the right to life issue can you approve of war?
6. Is the death penalty OK?
It’s amazing that the mainstream media in some corners have written the poor woman off. She deserves the right to live, especially since she has a family that will be able to do everything for her comfort. It’s the creep ex-husband that is trying to cash in on insurance, and now there was a brief mention on Fox about the possibility that our dear-hearted Mr. Schiavo may have beaten Terri, broken bones, and other such unpleasantries. Reminds me of the creepy doctors in Groningen who decided to terminate the life of four deformed babies, using the rationale that their lives would have been miserable if they had lived. Read the following link for more:
Reminds me of the despicable Groningen Protocol where pulling the plug on “undesireable” babies in the Netherlands seemed like a good idea to the medical establishment.
This bone scan report shows she had injuries to the ribs, thoracic vertebrae, both sacroiliac joints, both ankles and both knees. I read somewhere that she was “worked over pretty good”. Looks like there’s evidence to support that. Forensic pathologist, Michael Baden dismissed the “potassium deficiency theory and suggested attempted strangulation is what brought on the 8 minute or so lack of air to the brain.
I agree, what’s happening in other parts of the world are reminiscent of this same sort of thing; deciding who should live based on dubious allegations of a disability IMO is “playing God”. And these are not loving “gods”. The horrible part of the Netherlands murders is that the parents of those children were not consulted at all!
War is a different issue, *******, try to focus. I can’t believe you just brought up the war in Iraq when we’re talking about eugenics and euthaniasia.
I suppose you could go there but–the important thing is–at least in my mind, protecting the lives of the innocent. And I believe we’re doing that for the people in Iraq, as well as fighting the concept of euthanasia. It really is the same philosophy that applies to both.
For Bush, God has blessed and chosen America to carry out its responsibility to protect the innocent and to punish the guilty. Such rhetoric provides a clear motivation for the invasion of Iraq-to liberate the Iraqi people while at the same time bring to justice Saddam Hussein and his regime of sadistic human shredders. This basic sensibility of protecting the innocent and punishing the guilty is a driving force behind much of Bush’s perception of what it means to be a responsible President. This is why, for example, he opposes abortion but defends the death penalty. Says Bush, “I believe that it is important to focus on the innocent victim when it comes to crime. If the death penalty is administered surely, swiftly and justly, it will save lives because people will know that there is going to be a consequence to crime.” This is in keeping with Bush’s conviction that “what this country needs to do is to usher in what I call `the responsibility era.’” This is especially the case for Christians. Bush has a clear view of divine punishment that awaits those Christians who do not live up to the responsibilities of their faith: “I am mindful of that Biblical admonition that if you accept Christ and then stray, the consequences are more severe than ever.” The motif of Moses laying down clear cut choices with very clear consequences can also be found in Bush’s June 2002 speech on Israel and a Palestinian state, at the end of which he cites the famous charge from Deuteronomy 30:19, “The Bible says, ‘I have set before you life and death; therefore, choose life.’”
I really enjoy reading your articles. Keep up the great work.
TBoardenson