Ron Panzer
updates + Judge breaks law to ensure death + Schindler F
Thu Mar 10, 2005 23:08
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updates + Judge breaks law to ensure death + Schindler Family urges judge's impeachment
Update on today's hearing:
Results: 3/10/2005 -- REJECTED-- Greer says NO to DCF
Tampabay: No DCF intervention in Schiavo case
CLEARWATER - A Pinellas-Pasco judge today refused to allow the Department of Children and Families to intervene in the Terri Schiavo case. The decision by Circuit Judge George Greer also means the judge won't consider DCF's request for a 60-day stay of his order that Schiavo's feeding tube can be removed at 1 p.m. on March 18.
The agency had said it received abuse and neglect complaints about Schiavo that it needed time to investigate.
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Tallahasee
Capital Builiding
Wednesday March 9, 2005 8:30 AM
House Bill 701
TALLAHASSEE - The bill known as "Florida Starvation and Dehydration of Persons with Disabilities Prevention Act (HB 701) sponsored by Rep. Dennis Baxley was heard this morning in the Health Care Regulation Committee. FRTL lobbyist Robin Hoffman remarked, "We are thrilled the committee voted in favor of this critical bill. This legislation is necessary to protect all Floridians from what Terri Schindler-Schiavo has gone through." It is expected to be heard next week in the Judiciary committee.
HB 701 passed out of committee on a voice vote of 7-4.
Of course, there are typical pro death guardian lawyers who like Deborah Bushnell see this law has hindering their ability to profit by making money over killing those needing a feeding tube. Comments today in Tallahasee were also heard such as:
"I am an attorney who spends all of her practice dealing with end-of-life incapacity guardianship issues. And this bill is a bad, bad, bad bill," Twyla Sketchley said, softly but firmly.
The bill still has to pass through two more House committees, then the House itself, before going to the Senate -- all before the March 18 deadline when Terri's feeding tube is schedules to be removed from her abdomen at 1:00 PM.
At this time, we believe the judiciary committee will not reconvene until next Wednesday, two days before her tube will be pulled. We are still waiting on confirmation.
Fight4Terri@aol.com
www.fight4terri.blogspot.com
Visit Terri's site: www.terrisfight.org
Cheryl Ford, RN (Fight4Terri@aol.com ) is not affiliated with any other group and works as an independent volunteer promoting the protection of Florida's disabled community.
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Press Release
For Immediate Release – 03-10-05 3.00 PM (GMT-5)
Judge Greer Breaks Law to Ensure Terri Schiavo’s Death
Judge George W. Greer ignores Florida laws and orders the premeditated killing of disabled Florida woman by her husband.
Clearwater, FL – On Tuesday and Wednesday, March 8 and 9, 2005, Sixth Circuit Judge George W. Greer issued three orders that all but assure the death of Terri Schiavo, beginning on Friday, March 18, 2005.
Order Denying Food and Fluids Naturally After Gastric Tube Removal
Greer ordered that the family of Terri Schiavo may not introduce oral nutrition and hydration following the removal of Terri’s gastric feeding tube. Florida Statute 744.3215 (Rights of Persons Determined Incapacitated) require that incapacitated persons cannot be deprived of necessary services including food and water. Ordering that Terri Schiavo may not receive nutrition or hydration naturally is against the law, in the opinion of the Foundation.
Order Denying Updated Medical Tests
Greer ordered that no further neurological tests may be offered to Terri Schiavo, utilizing functional MRI to determine if she is in a ‘persistent vegetative state’ (As Greer found in 2002) or is her condition is ‘minimally conscious’. Florida Statute 765.404 which defines persistent vegetative state require that the condition be determined and diagnosed as permanent prior to the withdrawal of life-prolonging means. Further, Florida Statute 765.309 prevents mercy killing and assisted suicide. Without determining the true neurological condition of Terri Schiavo prior to the withdrawal of foods and fluids, the Foundation finds Judge Greer’s Order to remove Nutrition and Hydration a directive for her guardian to commit either a mercy killing or assisted suicide.
Order Denying Relief from Judgment
Greer denied an order from judgment based on his error in dismissing pertinent testimony in 2000 that would assist the court in determining Terri Schiavo’s true end of life wishes. Under Florida Statute 765.404, clear and convincing evidence of the ward’s intent for medical treatment must be established. The only evidence in support of removing Terri’s feeding tube was the self-serving hearsay testimony of her guardian (which is not admissible under FS 90.602) and hearsay from two members of his immediate family. Greer systematically ruled that testimony from Terri’s friends and family was unreliable or not credible. His failure to consider all evidence of Terri Schiavo’s attitudes towards life-prolonging measures, in the Foundation’s opinion, is a clear violation of Florida Statutes.
Statement of Pamela Hennessy, Media Director for the Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation: If there is a single person following this who doesn’t believe Judge Greer has legislated from the bench, trampled Florida’s laws and deprived Terri Schiavo of her retained rights, they are simply not paying attention. Disability and Eldercare advocates need to be calling for his immediate impeachment.
Please visit www.terrisfight.org to view these documents in their entirety in PDF format.
and see:
Press Release
For Immediate Release – 03-10-05 5.00 PM (GMT-5)
President Bush urged to intervene in Terri Schiavo Case
Healthcare advocates demand the President back up his Culture of Life stance by working to protect Terri Schiavo in Florida.
Clearwater, FL – Healthcare and Eldercare advocates in Florida are urging President George W. Bush to take a stance in the Terri Schiavo case in Florida.
Schiavo is the brain-injured woman whose husband has successfully won, through the courts, the authority to remove her tube-assisted nutrition and hydration beginning March 18, 2005. This action will cause the 41 year-old woman’s death by dehydration and starvation over the course of 7 to 14 days.
Terri’s parents, Bob and Mary Schindler have asked the courts for the authority to care for her, provide her with therapy, the ability to conduct updated neurological tests, the ability to offer her food and water naturally and the ability to try new forms of therapy that could improve Terri’s ability to accept nutrition naturally. The judge has denied them in these and other efforts to protect their daughter’s life, even though there is evidence that doing so is contrary to Florida’s long settled guardianship laws.
In 2003, Governor Jeb Bush of Florida and the state’s lawmakers intervened with what would be called Terri’s Law, only to be struck down by the Supreme Court. A group of advocates, organized by Cheryl Ford, RN of Tampa, Florida, is now asking for the intervention of the President.
Citing the President’s “Culture of Life” address to the March for Life in Washington in recent months, Ford and her supporters are demanding that the President back up his words with swift action to protect the innocent, disabled woman. Activists have arranged an intensive email campaign to the Whitehouse and are asking for both the President’s words and action on behalf of Terri Schiavo.
Statement of Cheryl Ford, RN: We are asking President Bush to make a firm statement against the euthanasia of our country’s elderly and disabled citizens. We are also asking that he come immediately to Florida, where Terri has been held captive in a Hospice House for five years so that he can meet her personally and decide for himself if this innocent woman should be put to death by Florida’s out of control judiciary.
Contact: Cheryl Ford, RN – Healthcare Advocate
813-695-0870 fight4terri@aol.com
www.fight4terri.blogspot.com
and see:
No DCF intervention in Schiavo case
http://www.sptimes.com/2005/03/10/Tampabay/No_DCF_intervention_i.shtml
and see:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4856019,00.html
Judge Nixes Schiavo Intervention by Agency
Thursday March 10, 2005 8:46 PM
AP Photo CHO601
By MITCH STACY
Associated Press Writer
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - A judge ruled Thursday that Florida's social services agency cannot intervene to delay the removal of the feeding tube keeping brain-damaged Terri Schiavo alive.
The Department of Children & Families had asked for a 60-day delay in the removal of the tube, now set for March 18. The agency said it wanted time to investigate allegations of abuse and neglect against the woman's husband, Michael Schiavo.
But Circuit Judge George W. Greer said those allegations and many others had been investigated in the past and found to be groundless. He said the agency was apparently trying to pull an end run around the court by getting involved at this late stage.
[go online for article]
and see:
http://www.cnsnews.com//ViewNation.asp?Page=\Nation\archive\200503\NAT20050310b.html
Schindler Family Calls for Judge's 'Immediate Impeachment'
By Melanie Hunter
CNSNews.com Deputy Managing Editor
March 10, 2005
(CNSNews.com) - A spokesman for the family of Terri Schindler Schiavo said Thursday the Florida judge residing over her case "ignores the state's laws and orders the premeditated killing of a disabled Florida woman by her husband."
Pamela Hennessy, media director for the Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation, in a press release Thursday called on disability and eldercare advocates to press for Circuit Judge George Greer's "immediate impeachment."
"If there is a single person following this who doesn't believe Judge Greer has legislated from the bench, trampled Florida's laws and deprived Terri Schiavo of her retained rights, they are simply not paying attention," Hennessy said in a statement.
According to the foundation's press release, on Tuesday and Wednesday Greer issued three orders that the foundation said all but assures Schiavo's death. First, Greer ordered that the family may not introduce oral nutrition and hydration following the removal of Terri's gastric feeding tube.
[go online for article]
and see:
http://m1e.net/c?36056999-fNBKtDiaVWfJM%40888621-7vX/u0Ls6SKMM
and see:
Paul Copeland: Judge George Greer, The Church, And Terri Schiavo
http://www.useless-knowledge.com/1234/mar/article156.html
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Press Conference, Vigil and Rally for Terri Schiavo in Clearwater, March 12
http://www.earnedmedia.org/tf0310.htm
To: National Desk
Contact: Eleanor Drechsel, 727-867-4861, emldrechsel@aol.com ; Jana Carpenter, 727-443-3470, lifeknight@mindspring.com
PINELLAS PARK, Fl., March 10 /Christian Wire Service/ -- A press conference, prayer vigil and "Rally for Life--Truth--Justice" is planned for Saturday, March 12, to be held in front of the hospice where Terri Schindler Schiavo lives.
Press Conference Details---
When: Saturday, March 12, at 2 PM
Where: In front of the Woodside Hospice, located at 6774 102nd Avenue N. (near 66th Street N and 102nd Avenue N) in Pinellas Park, Florida.
Who: Scheduled to speak, at press conference starting at 2 PM--
James Sedlak, Vice President, American Life League (Virginia)
Kate Adamson. Survivor of 8 day starvation after being diagnosed as PVS (California)
Thomas Droleskey, PhD. Founder/President Christ the King College (California)
Mary Ann Kreitzer, President Catholic Media Coalition (Virginia)
David Gibbs, Esq, Attorney for Terri's parents
Robert and Mary Schindler, Terri's parents
Bobby and Suzanne Schindler, Terri's brother and sister
-------------------------------------------------
Vigil & Rally Details---
When: Saturday, March 12, at 11 AM - 6 PM
--11 AM Rosary for Life
--12 noon Speakers
--2pm Press conference (see details above)
--3pm Chaplet of Divine Mercy
--3:45pm Panel of doctors, priests, attorneys and other guests for Q&A on end of life issues and Terri's Case
Where: In front of the Woodside Hospice, located at 6774 102nd Avenue N. (near 66th Street N and 102nd Avenue N) in Pinellas Park, Florida.
Who: Scheduled to speak at rally, starting at noon--
Christopher Ferrara, Esq. President American Catholic Lawyers Assoc. (New Jersey)
Patricia Anderson, Esq. Attorney for Schindlers 2001-2004 (St. Pete)
Thomas Droleskey, PhD. Founder/President Christ the King College (California)
Fr. Thomas Euteneuer, President Human Life International (Virginia)
James Sedlak, Vice President, American Life League (Virginia)
Mary Ann Kreitzer, President Catholic Media Coalition (Virginia)
Joseph Magri, Esq. Attorney for Schindlers (Tampa Bay area)
Kate Adamson. Survivor of 8 day starvation after being diagnosed as PVS (California)
Jan Halisky, Esq. President Pinellas County Right to Life (Clearwater)
Msgr. Thaddeus Malanowski, Spiritual Director Schindlers, Terri (Clearwater)
###
Gloria Allred's Law Firm Holds Money In Trust Account
http://www.nbc4.tv/health/4272987/detail.html
LOS ANGELES -- Attorney Gloria Allred said she would hold a news conference with one of her clients Thursday afternoon to make an announcement regarding the case of Terri Schiavo, the Florida woman whose feeding tube is scheduled to be removed on March 18.
Allred said the client is a businessman who has deposited $1 million into her law firm's trust account to offer Schiavo's husband, Michael, if he agrees to certain conditions to keep his comatose wife alive after the feeding tube is scheduled to be removed.
[go online for article]
###
Christian Doctors Group Responds to Dutch Euthanasia of Children
http://m1e.net/c?36056999-FvpvyVHHpnFJY%40888624-tYA1PLKSXflxY
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Responding to a just-published article in the New England Journal of Medicine, the head of the nation's largest faith-based association of physicians today responded to revelations that Dutch doctors now openly euthanize infants. Earlier this week, doctors in the Netherlands have admitted to killing twenty newborn infants they say were too disabled to survive. They are presenting details of the euthanasia bids to the Dutch government with the hopes of sparking a national debate on whether euthanasia should be legalized to include children. David Stevens, M.D., executive director of the 17,000-member Christian Medical Association, said, "The tragic irony is that Dutch doctors once risked their lives to oppose the Nazi euthanasia program. Dutch euthanasia doctors today indignantly contrast their motives with the Nazis', yet there is little difference in the final result between the involuntary euthanasia of Dutch infants and non-consenting adults and the Nazi euthanasia program. "In just a few generations since World War II, the Netherlands has slid from firm opposition to medical killing to tolerating it illegally to endorsing it in law and now to expanding it to children. On the face of it, Dutch euthanasia is all about pain and suffering and patient autonomy, but in reality, Dutch euthanasia is all about money, convenience and physician autonomy," Dr. Stevens explained. Dutch law allows people over the age of 12 to declare that they want to end their lives via assisted suicide. Whether to allow euthanasia for children -- and for people who cannot make their own medical decisions -- has become the subject of international debate after Dutch doctors admitted to killing the newborns last year. Read the complete story.
###
Seeing in Black & White - Seeing in Living Color
http://www.hospicepatients.org/black-white-vs-living-color.html
March 12, 2005 by Ron Panzer
comments on the difference between sanctity of life based ethics and services and the utilitarian, secular view which devalues the worth of the disabled, chronically ill or elderly.
[go online for article]
###
Please pray. Take the time to make the cal
Update on today's hearing:
Results: 3/10/2005 -- REJECTED-- Greer says NO to DCF
Tampabay: No DCF intervention in Schiavo case
CLEARWATER - A Pinellas-Pasco judge today refused to allow the Department of Children and Families to intervene in the Terri Schiavo case. The decision by Circuit Judge George Greer also means the judge won't consider DCF's request for a 60-day stay of his order that Schiavo's feeding tube can be removed at 1 p.m. on March 18.
The agency had said it received abuse and neglect complaints about Schiavo that it needed time to investigate.
------------------------------------------------------------------
Tallahasee
Capital Builiding
Wednesday March 9, 2005 8:30 AM
House Bill 701
TALLAHASSEE - The bill known as "Florida Starvation and Dehydration of Persons with Disabilities Prevention Act (HB 701) sponsored by Rep. Dennis Baxley was heard this morning in the Health Care Regulation Committee. FRTL lobbyist Robin Hoffman remarked, "We are thrilled the committee voted in favor of this critical bill. This legislation is necessary to protect all Floridians from what Terri Schindler-Schiavo has gone through." It is expected to be heard next week in the Judiciary committee.
HB 701 passed out of committee on a voice vote of 7-4.
Of course, there are typical pro death guardian lawyers who like Deborah Bushnell see this law has hindering their ability to profit by making money over killing those needing a feeding tube. Comments today in Tallahasee were also heard such as:
"I am an attorney who spends all of her practice dealing with end-of-life incapacity guardianship issues. And this bill is a bad, bad, bad bill," Twyla Sketchley said, softly but firmly.
The bill still has to pass through two more House committees, then the House itself, before going to the Senate -- all before the March 18 deadline when Terri's feeding tube is schedules to be removed from her abdomen at 1:00 PM.
At this time, we believe the judiciary committee will not reconvene until next Wednesday, two days before her tube will be pulled. We are still waiting on confirmation.
Fight4Terri@aol.com
www.fight4terri.blogspot.com
Visit Terri's site: www.terrisfight.org
Cheryl Ford, RN (Fight4Terri@aol.com ) is not affiliated with any other group and works as an independent volunteer promoting the protection of Florida's disabled community.
###
Press Release
For Immediate Release – 03-10-05 3.00 PM (GMT-5)
Judge Greer Breaks Law to Ensure Terri Schiavo’s Death
Judge George W. Greer ignores Florida laws and orders the premeditated killing of disabled Florida woman by her husband.
Clearwater, FL – On Tuesday and Wednesday, March 8 and 9, 2005, Sixth Circuit Judge George W. Greer issued three orders that all but assure the death of Terri Schiavo, beginning on Friday, March 18, 2005.
Order Denying Food and Fluids Naturally After Gastric Tube Removal
Greer ordered that the family of Terri Schiavo may not introduce oral nutrition and hydration following the removal of Terri’s gastric feeding tube. Florida Statute 744.3215 (Rights of Persons Determined Incapacitated) require that incapacitated persons cannot be deprived of necessary services including food and water. Ordering that Terri Schiavo may not receive nutrition or hydration naturally is against the law, in the opinion of the Foundation.
Order Denying Updated Medical Tests
Greer ordered that no further neurological tests may be offered to Terri Schiavo, utilizing functional MRI to determine if she is in a ‘persistent vegetative state’ (As Greer found in 2002) or is her condition is ‘minimally conscious’. Florida Statute 765.404 which defines persistent vegetative state require that the condition be determined and diagnosed as permanent prior to the withdrawal of life-prolonging means. Further, Florida Statute 765.309 prevents mercy killing and assisted suicide. Without determining the true neurological condition of Terri Schiavo prior to the withdrawal of foods and fluids, the Foundation finds Judge Greer’s Order to remove Nutrition and Hydration a directive for her guardian to commit either a mercy killing or assisted suicide.
Order Denying Relief from Judgment
Greer denied an order from judgment based on his error in dismissing pertinent testimony in 2000 that would assist the court in determining Terri Schiavo’s true end of life wishes. Under Florida Statute 765.404, clear and convincing evidence of the ward’s intent for medical treatment must be established. The only evidence in support of removing Terri’s feeding tube was the self-serving hearsay testimony of her guardian (which is not admissible under FS 90.602) and hearsay from two members of his immediate family. Greer systematically ruled that testimony from Terri’s friends and family was unreliable or not credible. His failure to consider all evidence of Terri Schiavo’s attitudes towards life-prolonging measures, in the Foundation’s opinion, is a clear violation of Florida Statutes.
Statement of Pamela Hennessy, Media Director for the Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation: If there is a single person following this who doesn’t believe Judge Greer has legislated from the bench, trampled Florida’s laws and deprived Terri Schiavo of her retained rights, they are simply not paying attention. Disability and Eldercare advocates need to be calling for his immediate impeachment.
Please visit www.terrisfight.org to view these documents in their entirety in PDF format.
and see:
Press Release
For Immediate Release – 03-10-05 5.00 PM (GMT-5)
President Bush urged to intervene in Terri Schiavo Case
Healthcare advocates demand the President back up his Culture of Life stance by working to protect Terri Schiavo in Florida.
Clearwater, FL – Healthcare and Eldercare advocates in Florida are urging President George W. Bush to take a stance in the Terri Schiavo case in Florida.
Schiavo is the brain-injured woman whose husband has successfully won, through the courts, the authority to remove her tube-assisted nutrition and hydration beginning March 18, 2005. This action will cause the 41 year-old woman’s death by dehydration and starvation over the course of 7 to 14 days.
Terri’s parents, Bob and Mary Schindler have asked the courts for the authority to care for her, provide her with therapy, the ability to conduct updated neurological tests, the ability to offer her food and water naturally and the ability to try new forms of therapy that could improve Terri’s ability to accept nutrition naturally. The judge has denied them in these and other efforts to protect their daughter’s life, even though there is evidence that doing so is contrary to Florida’s long settled guardianship laws.
In 2003, Governor Jeb Bush of Florida and the state’s lawmakers intervened with what would be called Terri’s Law, only to be struck down by the Supreme Court. A group of advocates, organized by Cheryl Ford, RN of Tampa, Florida, is now asking for the intervention of the President.
Citing the President’s “Culture of Life” address to the March for Life in Washington in recent months, Ford and her supporters are demanding that the President back up his words with swift action to protect the innocent, disabled woman. Activists have arranged an intensive email campaign to the Whitehouse and are asking for both the President’s words and action on behalf of Terri Schiavo.
Statement of Cheryl Ford, RN: We are asking President Bush to make a firm statement against the euthanasia of our country’s elderly and disabled citizens. We are also asking that he come immediately to Florida, where Terri has been held captive in a Hospice House for five years so that he can meet her personally and decide for himself if this innocent woman should be put to death by Florida’s out of control judiciary.
Contact: Cheryl Ford, RN – Healthcare Advocate
813-695-0870 fight4terri@aol.com
www.fight4terri.blogspot.com
and see:
No DCF intervention in Schiavo case
http://www.sptimes.com/2005/03/10/Tampabay/No_DCF_intervention_i.shtml
and see:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4856019,00.html
Judge Nixes Schiavo Intervention by Agency
Thursday March 10, 2005 8:46 PM
AP Photo CHO601
By MITCH STACY
Associated Press Writer
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - A judge ruled Thursday that Florida's social services agency cannot intervene to delay the removal of the feeding tube keeping brain-damaged Terri Schiavo alive.
The Department of Children & Families had asked for a 60-day delay in the removal of the tube, now set for March 18. The agency said it wanted time to investigate allegations of abuse and neglect against the woman's husband, Michael Schiavo.
But Circuit Judge George W. Greer said those allegations and many others had been investigated in the past and found to be groundless. He said the agency was apparently trying to pull an end run around the court by getting involved at this late stage.
[go online for article]
and see:
http://www.cnsnews.com//ViewNation.asp?Page=\Nation\archive\200503\NAT20050310b.html
Schindler Family Calls for Judge's 'Immediate Impeachment'
By Melanie Hunter
CNSNews.com Deputy Managing Editor
March 10, 2005
(CNSNews.com) - A spokesman for the family of Terri Schindler Schiavo said Thursday the Florida judge residing over her case "ignores the state's laws and orders the premeditated killing of a disabled Florida woman by her husband."
Pamela Hennessy, media director for the Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation, in a press release Thursday called on disability and eldercare advocates to press for Circuit Judge George Greer's "immediate impeachment."
"If there is a single person following this who doesn't believe Judge Greer has legislated from the bench, trampled Florida's laws and deprived Terri Schiavo of her retained rights, they are simply not paying attention," Hennessy said in a statement.
According to the foundation's press release, on Tuesday and Wednesday Greer issued three orders that the foundation said all but assures Schiavo's death. First, Greer ordered that the family may not introduce oral nutrition and hydration following the removal of Terri's gastric feeding tube.
[go online for article]
and see:
http://m1e.net/c?36056999-fNBKtDiaVWfJM%40888621-7vX/u0Ls6SKMM
and see:
Paul Copeland: Judge George Greer, The Church, And Terri Schiavo
http://www.useless-knowledge.com/1234/mar/article156.html
###
Press Conference, Vigil and Rally for Terri Schiavo in Clearwater, March 12
http://www.earnedmedia.org/tf0310.htm
To: National Desk
Contact: Eleanor Drechsel, 727-867-4861, emldrechsel@aol.com ; Jana Carpenter, 727-443-3470, lifeknight@mindspring.com
PINELLAS PARK, Fl., March 10 /Christian Wire Service/ -- A press conference, prayer vigil and "Rally for Life--Truth--Justice" is planned for Saturday, March 12, to be held in front of the hospice where Terri Schindler Schiavo lives.
Press Conference Details---
When: Saturday, March 12, at 2 PM
Where: In front of the Woodside Hospice, located at 6774 102nd Avenue N. (near 66th Street N and 102nd Avenue N) in Pinellas Park, Florida.
Who: Scheduled to speak, at press conference starting at 2 PM--
James Sedlak, Vice President, American Life League (Virginia)
Kate Adamson. Survivor of 8 day starvation after being diagnosed as PVS (California)
Thomas Droleskey, PhD. Founder/President Christ the King College (California)
Mary Ann Kreitzer, President Catholic Media Coalition (Virginia)
David Gibbs, Esq, Attorney for Terri's parents
Robert and Mary Schindler, Terri's parents
Bobby and Suzanne Schindler, Terri's brother and sister
-------------------------------------------------
Vigil & Rally Details---
When: Saturday, March 12, at 11 AM - 6 PM
--11 AM Rosary for Life
--12 noon Speakers
--2pm Press conference (see details above)
--3pm Chaplet of Divine Mercy
--3:45pm Panel of doctors, priests, attorneys and other guests for Q&A on end of life issues and Terri's Case
Where: In front of the Woodside Hospice, located at 6774 102nd Avenue N. (near 66th Street N and 102nd Avenue N) in Pinellas Park, Florida.
Who: Scheduled to speak at rally, starting at noon--
Christopher Ferrara, Esq. President American Catholic Lawyers Assoc. (New Jersey)
Patricia Anderson, Esq. Attorney for Schindlers 2001-2004 (St. Pete)
Thomas Droleskey, PhD. Founder/President Christ the King College (California)
Fr. Thomas Euteneuer, President Human Life International (Virginia)
James Sedlak, Vice President, American Life League (Virginia)
Mary Ann Kreitzer, President Catholic Media Coalition (Virginia)
Joseph Magri, Esq. Attorney for Schindlers (Tampa Bay area)
Kate Adamson. Survivor of 8 day starvation after being diagnosed as PVS (California)
Jan Halisky, Esq. President Pinellas County Right to Life (Clearwater)
Msgr. Thaddeus Malanowski, Spiritual Director Schindlers, Terri (Clearwater)
###
Gloria Allred's Law Firm Holds Money In Trust Account
http://www.nbc4.tv/health/4272987/detail.html
LOS ANGELES -- Attorney Gloria Allred said she would hold a news conference with one of her clients Thursday afternoon to make an announcement regarding the case of Terri Schiavo, the Florida woman whose feeding tube is scheduled to be removed on March 18.
Allred said the client is a businessman who has deposited $1 million into her law firm's trust account to offer Schiavo's husband, Michael, if he agrees to certain conditions to keep his comatose wife alive after the feeding tube is scheduled to be removed.
[go online for article]
###
Christian Doctors Group Responds to Dutch Euthanasia of Children
http://m1e.net/c?36056999-FvpvyVHHpnFJY%40888624-tYA1PLKSXflxY
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Responding to a just-published article in the New England Journal of Medicine, the head of the nation's largest faith-based association of physicians today responded to revelations that Dutch doctors now openly euthanize infants. Earlier this week, doctors in the Netherlands have admitted to killing twenty newborn infants they say were too disabled to survive. They are presenting details of the euthanasia bids to the Dutch government with the hopes of sparking a national debate on whether euthanasia should be legalized to include children. David Stevens, M.D., executive director of the 17,000-member Christian Medical Association, said, "The tragic irony is that Dutch doctors once risked their lives to oppose the Nazi euthanasia program. Dutch euthanasia doctors today indignantly contrast their motives with the Nazis', yet there is little difference in the final result between the involuntary euthanasia of Dutch infants and non-consenting adults and the Nazi euthanasia program. "In just a few generations since World War II, the Netherlands has slid from firm opposition to medical killing to tolerating it illegally to endorsing it in law and now to expanding it to children. On the face of it, Dutch euthanasia is all about pain and suffering and patient autonomy, but in reality, Dutch euthanasia is all about money, convenience and physician autonomy," Dr. Stevens explained. Dutch law allows people over the age of 12 to declare that they want to end their lives via assisted suicide. Whether to allow euthanasia for children -- and for people who cannot make their own medical decisions -- has become the subject of international debate after Dutch doctors admitted to killing the newborns last year. Read the complete story.
###
Seeing in Black & White - Seeing in Living Color
http://www.hospicepatients.org/black-white-vs-living-color.html
March 12, 2005 by Ron Panzer
comments on the difference between sanctity of life based ethics and services and the utilitarian, secular view which devalues the worth of the disabled, chronically ill or elderly.
[go online for article]
###
Please pray. Take the time to make the cal
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