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Euthanasia is the child of abortion. ******* As of this date, 07-07-16, this folder contains 15 items. ******* item 1 NATIONAL DISABILITY GROUPS OUTRAGED ABOUT "END OF LIFE" ADVOCACY ******* item 2 HOSPITALS IN BELGIUM MUST MANDATE EUTHANASIA ******* item 3 TERRI SCHIAVO DENIED LAST RITES (DAY 5 OF TERRI'S DEATH BY STARVATION) ******* item 4 AUSCHWITZ IN AMERICA ******* item 5 BRITISH GOVERNMENT SUPPORTS EUTHANASIA OF MENTALLY HANDICAPPED ******* item 6 CANADIAN SENIORS COMMITTING SUICIDE ******* item 7 CANADIAN WOMAN FOUND NOT GUILTY OF WOMEN'S ASSISTED SUICIDE DEATHS ******* item 8 U.K. JUDGE: HUSBAND CAN TAKE WIFE TO SWITZERLAND FOR ASSISTED SUICIDE ******* item 9 HOW THE ELITE MEDIA TWISTS THE FACTS ABOUT TERRI TO SUIT THEIR LIBERAL AGENDA ******* item 10 RENOWNED NEUROLOGIST: SCHIAVO CAN EAT WITH AID AND IS NOT IN A "PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE ******* item 11 JEB BUSH CAN SAVE TERRI AND WIN THE PRESIDENCY ******* item 12 ABC'S PHONY SURVEY AND NAZI MEDICINE VERSUS TERRI'S LIFE ******* item 13 PARENTS' MEMORIAL FOR TERRI SCHIAVO DRAWS 800 SUPPORTERS ******* item 14 MAE MAGOURIK, ANOTHER TERRI SCHIAVO ******* item 15 GROWING NUMBER OF SENIORS FEAR BEING EUTHANIZED, NEW ZEALAND GROUP REPORTS ******************************************************************************************************************** ******* item 1 NATIONAL DISABILITY GROUPS OUTRAGED ABOUT "END OF LIFE" ADVOCACY ******* from "http://www.lifenews.com/nat20.html" ******* Chicago, IL (LifeNews.com) -- On Monday, a coalition of nine national disability organizations sent a letter to two groups that promote an "end of life" advocacy program called "Last Acts." In addition to the key disability groups, the Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia Disability Rights Project joined the effort, along with a university-based public policy institute and five entities concerned with media portrayals of disability. The coalition charges that disability issues are wrongfully and misleadingly being characterized as "end of life" issues by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Partnership for Caring, the funders of "Last Acts." ******* http://www.lifenews.com/nat20.html ******* Life Cycle Books is North America's premier source of pro-life and abstinence before marriage educational materials. ******* For the lowest prices and widest selection of materials - including over 300 items exclusive to us - visit our web site ******* http://www.lifecyclebooks.com/ ******* or call us at 1-800-214-5849 for a free copy of our 48 page printed catalog. ******************************************************************************************************************** ******* item 2 HOSPITALS IN BELGIUM MUST MANDATE EUTHANASIA ******* From: "Steven Ertelt" ******* From: The Pro-Life Infonet ******* Source: Expatica; June 13, 2003 ******* Brussels, Belgium -- The right to euthanasia must exist in all hospitals, negotiators forming Belgium's new government said Friday in a move to counter opposition by some Catholic hospitals that have refused to permit assisted suicide on their premises. ******* The negotiators, who are forming a government after the My 18 general elections, have said that every hospital must have a team of doctors prepared to apply euthanasia. Euthanasia was made legal, under certain conditions, in Belgium last year. ******* Doctors will be given a protected status for performing euthanasia. ******* Pro-life groups are concerned about the implications this policy will have both on people in Belgium and the state of assisted suicide laws in the world at large. ******* "This is frightening and yet another argument for opposing assisted suicide and euthanasia," commented Nancy Valko, a leading monitor on end-of-life issues in the United States. "What kind of doctors and nurses will be left in Belgium?" ******* The chairman of the Flemish liberal VLD party, Karel De Gucht said euthanasia is the business of a doctor and a patient, and that hospitals should not interfere. ******* In February a doctor who carried out euthenasia on a terminally ill cancer patient in a Catholic hospital was dimissed by managers who accused him of not following the legal correct proceedure by the hospital management and dismissed. The doctor denied that he had disobeyed the law. ******************************************************************************************************************** ******* item 3 TERRI SCHIAVO DENIED LAST RITES (DAY 5 OF TERRI'S DEATH BY STARVATION) ******* Catholic monsignor forbidden to put crumb of holy wafer in dying woman's mouth ******* Posted: October 19, 2003, 2:00 a.m. Eastern ******* By Sarah Foster, � 2003 WorldNetDaily.com ******* Saying she was only following court and doctor's orders, an attorney for Michael Schiavo yesterday would not allow a revered Roman Catholic priest to administer Holy Communion to brain-disabled Terri Schindler-Schiavo, who is being slowly starved to death following the judge-ordered removal of her life-sustaining feeding tube on Wednesday. ******* Attorney Deborah Bushnell told Monsignor Thaddeus Malanowski, who has been Terri's spiritual provider for three years, that ''because of court order and doctor's orders, you can't put anything in her mouth,'' not even a morsel of moistened communion wafer. ******* Malanowski recounted the bizarre incident for WorldNetDaily. ''I felt that time was of the essence at this point and made a decision that because she is not going to live much longer, I might not have another opportunity to give her Holy Communion,'' he said. ******* As he had done almost every Saturday for over three years, the priest accompanied Terri's parents, Robert and Mary Schindler, to the Hospice of the Florida Sun Coast in Pinellas Park, Fla, where she has been a patient since April 2000. Because so little time is left for the family to be with Terri, her brother Bobby and sister, Suzanne, were there as well. ******* Plus there were two police officers in the room and a woman who was said to be Schiavo's ''representative.'' ******* Malanowski spoke with Bushnell outside the room, explaining that he wanted to administer the Sacrament of Annointing of the Sick or the Viaticum, the last communion for a Catholic before death. Bushnell contacted Schiavo by phone to make certain he would allow it, and he gave his permission. ******* Wanting to make it a prayer service, the priest invited the family into the room to share the sacrament with Terri, but Bushnell demanded to know what the priest was going to so. ******* Malanowski explained he was going to give her: ''a small, tiny particle of the consecrated Host. And I'll moisten my index finger [in water] to make sure the Host will stick to it and that it will stick to her tongue.'' ******* Bushnell said he couldn't do that, but suggested he ''take the Host, touch her lips with it, and you consume it.'' ******* Malanowski protested, ''I'm not here for that. I am here to bring her communion, not me. I went to communion this morning. This is communion for her.'' ******* Contacted by telephone, the priest of the local parish told Bushnell there was an ''alternative'' called ''spiritual communion'' for people who can't receive communion � ''She receives the Lord in her heart.'' ******* ''I told attorney Bushnell, I've been doing that for over three years,'' Malanowski exclaimed. ''Every Saturday I give her spiritual communion, and I want her to receive communion in the mouth. She hasn't received communion for 13 or 14 years. She's dying. She's on her deathbed, and with dying people � whether it is a male or female Catholic � I'm obligated to take care of their religious and spiritual needs when they're dying. They get absolution, Holy Communion, and Annointing of the Sick.'' ******* Malanowski argued the matter with the parish priest, but realized he was ''following the party line about spiritual communion.'' ******* ''I told him I'd been doing that for two-and-a-half years � and he said, 'Well, the doctors say you cannot put anything in her mouth.''' ******* Malanowski said he would do it, ''because she has the constitutional right to follow her religious beliefs, she has the right to receive communion and I have the obligation as a priest to give her communion. This will be perhaps the last time in her life on earth that she receives communion.'' ******* But the priest didn't agree. ''I sensed that, because he was saying, 'Otherwise you can't do it. If the court-order says so and the doctors say so, you can't do it.''' ******* Unwilling to argue points of theology and constitutional issues on the phone, Malanowski tried Bushnell again, but she was adamant. ''She wouldn't let me do it.'' ******* There were two police officers, and he asked them, ''What if I go in there now and give her communion?'' And they said, ''We will deny you access to her. You will not be able to put it in her mouth.'' ******* At that point Bobby and Suzanne, said, ''Father, let's go.'' ******* And they did. While Bushnell was talking with the priest, they had had a prayer service and the ''spiritual communion'' � but many Catholics do not regard that as the same as communion with a consecrated host. ******* Outside the hospice a scheduled press conference was about to begin, and Malanowski found himself in front of the TV cameras. ******* ''I told them [the media] the whole story, that she was denied her religious privileges and I was denied the right to take care of her religious needs,'' he said. ''I told them, that the attorney had some suggestion about me touching Terri's lips with the wafer, and then I was supposed to consume it. What does she know about Catholic ritual or rites?'' ******* As WorldNetDaily reported, the Schindlers had been fighting their son-in-law for 10 years over the lack of care and therapy Schiavo as her guardian provided for their daughter, who suffered massive brain damage when she collapsed at her home 13 years ago under mysterious circumstances at the age of 26. ******* The ongoing dispute escalated five years ago when Schiavo petitioned the court for permission to end his wife's life by removing her feeding tube, insisting she is in a ''persistent vegetative state'' and had told him years before she would not want to be maintained ''by tubes'' and ''artificial means'' Although Terri breathes on her own and maintains her own blood pressure, she requires a simple tube into her abdomen to her stomach for nourishment and hydration. ******* The Schindlers fought tenaciously to keep their daughter and the case alive in the courts, but they have been basically blocked at every turn in particular by probate judge George Greer, of the Pinellas County Circuit Court, who has had charge of the case almost from the beginning. When the seven-member Florida Supreme Court in August turned down a petition to review the case, the way was clear for Schiavo to starve his wife to death. ******* On Sept. 17, Greer scheduled Oct. 15 as the day Terri's feeding tube would be removed. At the same time, in separate rulings, he denied any rehabilitation for the disabled woman or a chance to be spoon-fed. ******************************************************************************************************************** ******* item 4 AUSCHWITZ IN AMERICA ******* From: "John Hof" ******* Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 12:41:32 -0700 ******* By William J. Federer ******* Even before the rise of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich, the way for the gruesome Nazi Holocaust of human extermination and cruel butchery was being prepared in the 1930 German Weimar Republic through the medical establishment and philosophical elite's adoption of the "quality of life" concept in place of the "sanctity of life." The Nuremberg trials, exposing the horrible Nazi war crimes, revealed that Germany's trend toward atrocity began with their progressive embrace of the Hegelian doctrine of "rational utility," where an individual's worth is in relation to their contribution to the state, rather than determined in light of traditional moral, ethical and religious values. ******* This gradual transformation of national public opinion, promulgated through media and education, was described in an article written by the British commentator Malcolm Muggeridge entitled "The Humane Holocaust" and in an article written by former United States Surgeon General, C. Everett Koop, M.D., entitled "The Slide to Auschwitz," both published in The Human Life Review, 1977 and 1980 respectively. ******* Muggeridge stated: "Near at hand, we have been accorded, for those that have eyes to see, an object lesson in what the quest for 'quality of life' without reference to 'sanctity of life' can involve ...[namely] the great Nazi Holocaust, whose TV presentation has lately been harrowing viewers throughout the Western world. In this televised version, an essential consideration has been left out - namely, that the origins of the Holocaust lay, not in Nazi terrorism and anti-Semitism, but in pre-Nazi Weimar Germany's acceptance of euthanasia and mercy-killing as humane and estimable. ... ******* "It took no more than three decades to transform a war crime into an act of compassion, thereby enabling the victors in the war against Nazism to adopt the very practices for which the Nazis had been solemnly condemned at Nuremberg." ******* The transformation followed thus: The concept that the elderly and terminally ill should have the right to die was promoted in books, newspapers, literature and even entertainment films, the most popular of which were entitled "Ich klage an (I accuse)" and "Mentally Ill." ******* One euthanasia movie, based on a novel by a National Socialist doctor, actually won a prize at the world-famous Venice Film Festival! Extreme hardship cases were cited, which increasingly convinced the public to morally approve of euthanasia. The medical profession gradually grew accustomed to administering death to patients who, for whatever reasons, felt their low "quality of life" rendered their lives not worth living, or as it was put, lebensunwerten Leben, (life unworthy of life). ******* In an Associated Press release published in the New York Times Oct. 10, 1933, entitled "Nazi Plan to Kill Incurables to End Pain; German Religious Groups Oppose Move," it was stated: "The Ministry of Justice, in a detailed memorandum explaining the Nazi aims regarding the German penal code, today announced its intentions to authorize physicians to end the sufferings of the incurable patient. The memorandum ... proposed that it shall be possible for physicians to end the tortures of incurable patients, upon request, in the interest of true humanity. ******* "This proposed legal recognition of euthanasia - the act of providing a painless and peaceful death - raised a number of fundamental problems of a religious, scientific and legal nature. The Catholic newspaper Germania hastened to observe: 'The Catholic faith binds the conscience of its followers not to accept this method.' ... In Lutheran circles, too, life is regarded as something that God alone can take. ... Euthanasia ... has become a widely discussed word in the Reich. ... No life still valuable to the State will be wantonly destroyed." ******* Nationalized health care and government involvement in medical care promised to improve the public's "quality of life." Unfortunately, the cost of maintaining government medical care was a contributing factor to the growth of the national debt, which reached astronomical proportions. Double and triple digit inflation crippled the economy, resulting in the public demanding that government cut expenses. ******* This precipitated the 1939 order to cut federal expenses. The national socialist government decided to remove "useless" expenses from the budget, which included the support and medical costs required to maintain the lives of the retarded, insane, senile, epileptic, psychiatric patients, handicapped, deaf, blind, the non-rehabilitatable ill and those who had been diseased or chronically ill for five years or more. It was labeled an "act of mercy" to "liberate them through death," as they were viewed as having an extremely low "quality of life," as well as being a tax burden on the public. ******* The public psyche was conditioned for this, as even school math problems compared distorted medical costs incurred by the taxpayer of caring for and rehabilitating the chronically sick with the cost of loans to newly married couples for new housing units. ******* The next whose lives were terminated by the state were the institutionalized elderly who had no relatives and no financial resources. These lonely, forsaken individuals were needed by no one and would be missed by no one. Their "quality of life" was considered low by everyone's standards, and they were a tremendous tax burden on the economically distressed state. ******* The next to be eliminated were the parasites on the state: the street people, bums, beggars, hopelessly poor, gypsies, prisoners, inmates and convicts. These were socially disturbing individuals incapable of providing for themselves whose "quality of life" was considered by the public as irreversibly below standard, in addition to the fact that they were a nuisance to society and a seed-bed for crime. ******* The liquidation grew to include those who had been unable to work, the socially unproductive and those living on welfare or government pensions. They drew financial support from the state, but contributed nothing financially back. They were looked upon as "useless eaters," leeches, stealing from those who worked hard to pay the taxes to support them. Their unproductive lives were a burden on the "quality of life" of those who had to pay the taxes. ******* The next to be eradicated were the ideologically unwanted, the political enemies of the state, religious extremists and those "disloyal" individuals considered to be holding the government back from producing a society which functions well and provides everyone a better "quality of life." The moving biography of the imprisoned Dietrich Bonhoffer chronicled the injustices. These individuals also were a source of "human experimental material," allowing military medical research to be carried on with human tissue, thus providing valuable information that promised to improve the nation's health. ******* Finally, justifying their actions on the purported theory of evolution, the Nazis considered the German, or "Aryan," race as "ubermenschen," supermen, being more advanced in the supposed progress of human evolution. This resulted in the twisted conclusion that all other races, and in particular the Jewish race, were less evolved and needed to be eliminated from the so-called "human gene pool," ensuring that future generations of humans would have a higher "quality of life." ******* Dr. Koop stated: "The first step is followed by the second step. You can say that if the first step is moral then whatever follows must be moral. The important thing, however, is this: Whether you diagnose the first step as being one worth taking or being one that is precarious rests entirely on what the second step is likely to be. ... I am concerned about this because when the first 273,000 German aged, infirm and retarded were killed in gas chambers there was no outcry from that medical profession either, and it was not far from there to Auschwitz." ******* Can this holocaust happen in America? Indeed, it has already begun. The idea of killing a person and calling it "death with dignity" is an oxymoron. The "mercy-killing" movement puts us on the same path as pre-Nazi Germany. The "quality of life" concept, which eventually results in the Hegelian utilitarian attitude of a person's worth being based on their contribution toward perpetuating big government, is in stark contrast to America's founding principles. ******* This philosophy which lowers the value of human life, shocked attendees at the Governor's Commission on Disability, in Concord, N.H., Oct. 5, 2001, as they heard the absurd comments of Princeton University professor Peter Singer. ******* The Associated Press reported Singer's comments: "I do think that it is sometimes appropriate to kill a human infant," he said, adding that he does not believe a newborn has a right to life until it reaches some minimum level of consciousness. "For me, the relevant question is, what makes it so seriously wrong to take a life?" Singer asked. "Those of you who are not vegetarians are responsible for taking a life every time you eat. Species is no more relevant than race in making these judgments." ******* Singer's views, if left unchecked, could easily lead to a repeat of the atrocities of Nazi Germany, if not something worse. Add to that unbridled advances in the technology of cloning, DNA tests that reveal physical defects, human embryos killed for the purpose of gathering stem cells to treat diseases ... and a haunting future unfolds before us. President Theodore Roosevelt's warning in 1909 seems appropriate: ******* "Progress has brought us both unbounded opportunities and unbridled difficulties. Thus, the measure of our civilization will not be that we have done much, but what we have done with that much. I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism. The thought of modern industry in the hands of Christian charity is a dream worth dreaming. The thought of industry in the hands of paganism is a nightmare beyond imagining. The choice between the two is upon us." ******* In his State of the Union address in 1905, Roosevelt stated: "There are those who believe that a new modernity demands a new morality. What they fail to consider is the harsh reality that there is no such thing as a new morality. There is only one morality. All else is immorality. There is only true Christian ethics over against which stands the whole of paganism. If we are to fulfill our great destiny as a people, then we must return to the old morality, the sole morality. ... All these blatant sham reformers, in the name of a new morality, preach the old vice of self-indulgence which rotted out first the moral fiber and then even the external greatness of Greece and Rome." ******* In biblical comparison, Jesus showed mercy by healing the sick and giving sanity back to the deranged, but never did he kill them. This attitude is exemplified today by Mother Teresa of Calcutta, whose version of "death with dignity" was to gather the dying from off the street and show compassion to these rejected and abandoned members of the human race, all the while knowing that they may only survive for another half hour. Her "mercy-living" movement went to great trouble to house, wash and feed even the most hopeless and derelict, because of inherent respect for the "sanctity of life" of each individual. ******* This attitude is summed up in her statement: "I see Jesus in every human being. I say to myself, this is hungry Jesus, I must feed him. This is sick Jesus. This one has leprosy or gangrene; I must wash him and tend to him. I serve because I love Jesus." ******* Will America chose the "sanctity of life" concept as demonstrated by Mother Teresa, or will America chose the "quality of life" concept championed by self-proclaimed doctors of death - such as in the case of the court-ordered starvation of Terri Schiavo - and continue its slide toward Auschwitz? What kind of subtle anesthetic has been allowed to deaden our national conscience? What horrors await us? The question is not whether the suffering and dying person's life should be terminated; the question is what kind of nation will we become if they are. Their physical death is preceded only by our moral death. ******* -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- William Federer is a best-selling author and president of Amerisearch Inc., a publishing company dedicated to researching America's noble heritage. Federer's "American Minute" is featured daily in WorldNetDaily. ******* � 2003 ******* For Life ******* John Hof ******* Campaign Life Coalition BC 4511 Southridge Cr. Langley, BC V3A 4N7 ******* Ph. (604) 534-4828 ******* Fax. (604) 532-9353 ******* email: [email protected] ******* www.clcbc.org ******************************************************************************************************************** ******* item 5 BRITISH GOVERNMENT SUPPORTS EUTHANASIA OF MENTALLY HANDICAPPED ******* Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 02:43:29 EST ******* From: "Steven Ertelt" and LifeNews.com Report 11/18/03 #3120| ******* London, England (LifeNews.com) -- While the current British government says it opposes euthanasia, it supports upcoming legislation that would legalize passive euthanasia, or euthanasia "by neglect" on mentally incapacitated adults. A draft of the Mental Incapacity Bill is being prepared for presentation to Parliament. An attempt to clarify difficult medical and financial decisions for those unable to do so themselves as a result of illness or accident, it opens the door to starvation and dehydration of those suffering from dementia, stroke or traumatic brain injury, as well as other illnesses. If passed, the Mental Incapacity Bill would be the first comprehensive law in the world to allow "euthanasia by neglect," could require the denial of treatment to patients not in danger of death, and force doctors to assist in the starvation or negligent death of those in their care. ******* http://www.lifenews.com/bio139.html ******************************************************************************************************************** ******* item 6 CANADIAN SENIOURS COMMITTING SUICIDE ******* From: "Euthanasia Prevention" ******* Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 10:34:24 -0400 ******* Commmet: At least suicide is being seen within the light of what we should be doing to help these people. I am concerned that advocates for euthanasia and assisted suicide might flip this message into a pro physician-assisted suicide arguement such as: "it happens already, it needs to be regulated" or "they are already doing it, if we legalize it, it will be less messy". ******* Anyway, I think this study is accurate and it shows us that we need to do something of a supportive nature to stem the culture of death. ******* Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director - Euthanasia Prevention Coalition ******* STUDY: ILLNESS BOOSTS SENIORS' SUICIDE RATES (CTV.ca News Staff) ******* Monday, June 14, 2004 ******* Certain common medical illnesses significantly boost the risk of suicide in seniors, whose signs of depression often go undiagnosed by their own family doctors, according to a new study. ******* The Canadian study was sponsored by the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences and published in the journal, Archives of Internal Medicine. It spanned nine years and looked at more than 1,300 suicides committed by elderly patients. ******* The study found that the more illnesses a patient had, the greater the risk they would take their own lives. ******* Seniors already have the highest rate of suicide among all age groups in Canada. ******* "As you age, the risk of suicide goes up substantially," said Dr. David Juurlink, a specialist in internal medicine and a clinical pharmacologist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto. ******* "And people, when they are older, when they attempt suicide, attempt it with considerably more lethal means." ******* Juurlink is the lead author of the study tracking suicides among Ontario seniors 66 years of age and older between 1992 and 2000. ******* His study found the most common tools used in suicides included firearms (28 per cent), hanging (24 per cent), and self-poisoning (21 per cent). ******* The study also revealed that half of the patients who took their lives had been to see a doctor in the previous week. ******* "I think we have a lot of potentially missed opportunities for prevention," Juurlink said. ******* "Especially in the offices of family doctors who see these patients in the days and weeks before they take their own lives." ******* Fran, 71, began sliding into a deep depression a decade ago, having been diagnosed with a form of muscular dystrophy that left her weak and unable to care for herself. ******* "You reach a point where you question, do I want to continue living like this?" she said. ******* "I thought of suicide," she said. "I didn�t know that I would ever do it ... but I hated the life I was leading." ******* Dr.David Conn of Baycrest Centre for Geriatrics said seniors like Fran are not alone in her feelings, although many fall through the cracks. "There�s a lot of evidence that many seniors with depression are not being identified and treated," Conn said. ******* Luckily, Fran was prescribed the right dose of medication, along with talk therapy to treat her depression and thoughts of suicide. ******* "I have five wonderful children and grandchildren," she said. "I did not want them to remember me that way." ******* With a report from CTV News� Avis Favaro ********************************************************************************************************************** ******* item 7 CANADIAN WOMAN FOUND NOT GUILTY OF WOMEN'S ASSISTED SUICIDE DEATHS ******* From: "LifeNews.com" ******* Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 ******* For news updated throughout the day, visit LifeNews.com. ******* British Coumbia, Canada (LifeNews.com) -- Euthanasia advocate Evelyn Martens was found not guilty in charges she assisted with the suicide of two women. Martens was accused of helping Monique Charest and Leyanne Burchell end their lives on two separate occasions. Both women contacted Martens, a member of the Right to Die Society, to help them with their suicides. Neither woman was terminally ill. While Canadian law does not forbid the act of suicide, it does state that assisting in a suicide is a crime. While Martens was present at both suicides, and discussed it with the women on previous phone calls and emails, Martens' defense attorney argued that her client did nothing wrong as there was no criminal intent. Tyhurst explained that both women had decided to commit suicide before contacting Martens, and had said Martens was there to provide comfort. Pro-life advocates in Canada have decried the acquittal. Martens has expressed hope that her case would establish a legal precedent to allow assisted suicide. However, polling data has shown that support for assisted suicide in Canada is diminishing. Some polls even show that a majority of Canadians oppose the practice. ********************************************************************************************************************** ******* item 8 U.K. JUDGE: HUSBAND CAN TAKE WIFE TO SWITZERLAND FOR ASSISTED SUICIDE ******* LifeNews.com Pro-Life News Report ******* Wednesday, December 1, 2004 ******* For news updated throughout the day, visit LifeNews.com. ******* London, England (LifeNews.com) -- A British judge ruled that the husband of an ailing woman can take her to Switzerland for an assisted suicide. The ruling overturns a previous injunction preventing the couple from making the trip. A local authority previously banned a woman, known only as Mrs. Z, from traveling to the western European nation to be killed. "The court should not frustrate indirectly the rights of Mrs. Z,'' Justice Mark Hedley wrote in an order released today at the High Court of London. "The role of Mr. Z is now a matter for the criminal justice agencies." The woman has been diagnosed with cerebellar ataxia, an incurable brain disease. She had presented her request to a psychologist who cleared her saying she was making her own decision to have her life taken and is not being pressured by anyone else. Normally, aiding a suicide carries a jail sentence of as much as 14 years, which prompted the local authority to issue the original ruling two years ago preventing the husband from taking Mrs. Z to be killed. After Hedley's decision, attorney Mark Everall said the husband would "now comply with his wife's wishes." Pro-life groups oppose Judge Hedley's ruling and say more should be done to care for disabled and elderly patients. ******************************************************************************************************************* ******* item 9 NETHERLANDS HOSPITAL BEGINS EUTHANASIA OF BABIES WITHOUT OFFICIAL APPROVAL ******* LifeNews.com Pro-Life News Report ******* Wednesday, December 1, 2004 ******* For news updated throughout the day, visit LifeNews.com. ******* Amsterdam, Netherlands (LifeNews.com) -- In a startling revelation Tuesday, a Dutch hospital admitted that it did not wait for the country's government to weigh a proposal to euthanize children. It has already moved forward and begun carrying out such euthanasia procedures in several cases. Approved in 2002, Dutch law allows adult patients suffering from incurable diseases to request assisted suicide. Teenagers under the age of 16 must have their parents approval, but the newly proposed law would drop that to 12 years of age and would allow children to be euthanized. That the Dutch parliament has not considered the idea hasn't stopped one hospital from pushing ahead. Groningen Academic Hospital has created guidelines for doctors there to euthanize newborns who are suffering from pain associated with incurable diseases or extreme physical deformities. Known as the Groningen Protocol, and announced last month, it allows euthanasia when a baby's medical team and independent doctors agree there is no prospect for improving pain. The child's parents also must agree to the request to end the child's life. Babies who are extremely premature, who have suffered brain damage from bleeding or convulsions, and children unable to live without life support are eligible to be killed under the guidelines. Read the complete story. ******************************************************************************************************************** ******* item 9 HOW THE ELITE MEDIA TWISTS THE FACTS ABOUT TERRI TO SUIT THEIR LIBERAL AGENDA ******* From: [email protected] ******* Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 ******* Dear Friends, ******* The following Associated Press article which AOL published on their front page is filled with lies and inaccuracies. ******* They withheld the opinions of 17 doctors including 10 neurologists who all said Terri's feeding tube should NOT be removed. That Terri could benefit from the proper therapy. ******* The article states that Terri is in a persistent vegetative state, which is an outright lie. If you saw the video on her, you would know that she is NOT. She smiles, she tries to talk, her eyes follow objects and people. This is not bad when you consider that she has NEVER had the proper treatment, because her husband is hell bent on having her killed. ******* I would love to have her be treated with Adult Stem Cells. What could it hurt to try? Oh, I understand, she must be put to death as soon as possible. Why -- she might recover and be able to tell if her condition was the result of violence -- or not. ******* She has never even had an MRI. This case doesn't pass the smell test, and why would the two congressmen listed in the AP article below want to sabotage the bill to save Terri's life? ******* Sorry, how stupid of me -- they're Democrats and 90% in this "Party of Death" have no respect for human life, which has been proven throughout the years. ******* They are so afraid that the respecting of human life in Terri's case might become "catchy" and presto, their support of the killing of little children in the womb will be looked upon by deep thinking people as barbaric and not conducive to a civilized society. ******* This is what this case is all about -- Respect God and human life, or disrespect God and human life. It's as simple as all that. ******* Frank Joseph MD, [email protected] http://hometown.aol.com/dfjoseph/abortion.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ******* Updated: 02:53 AM EST Bush Hurries to Capital to Sign Legislation on Schiavo Congressional Leaders Reach Deal to Keep Brain-Damaged Woman Alive ******* By MITCH STACY, AP ******* PINELLAS PARK, Fla. (March 19) - As a deal in Congress was worked out to have federal courts decide Terri Schiavo's fate, emotions swelled outside the brain-damaged woman's hospice room Saturday, with protesters arrested after they symbolically tried to smuggle in bread and water on her second day without a feeding tube. ******* As supporters maintained a vigil outside the hospice, Schiavo's mother pleaded for the 41-year-old woman's life. ******* "We laugh together, we cry together, we smile together, we talk together,'' Mary Schindler told reporters. "Please, please, please save my little girl.'' ******* Congressional leaders announced a compromise between Senate and House Republicans that would allow the brain-damaged woman's case to be reviewed by federal courts that could restore her feeding tube. Opposition waned after House leaders agreed to give up broader legislation and accept a narrowly crafted bill that applied only to Schiavo's case. ******* The Senate convened briefly Saturday evening to give formal permission for the House to meet Sunday, when it otherwise would be adjourned for the Easter recess. ******* The plan is for the House to act on the two-page bill Sunday or just after midnight Monday morning. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said the Senate then would act on the House legislation, assuming it passes the House as envisioned, and rush the bill to the president for signature into law. ******* President Bush changed his schedule to return to Washington from his Texas ranch on Sunday to be on hand to sign the legislation. ******* "We should investigate every avenue before we take the life of a living human being,'' said House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas. "That's the very least we can do for her.'' ******* Schiavo's husband, Michael, who has fought her parents in court for years to have the feeding tube removed, urged Congress to stay out of the matter, saying he is just trying to carry out his wife's wishes. ******* Lawyers for Schiavo's husband urged Congress to stay out of the matter. ``This case has been adjudicated, and to overrule the judiciary is an absolute crime,'' attorney Hamden Baskin III told CNN on Saturday. ******* The measure would effectively take Schiavo's fate out of Florida state courts, where judges ordered the feeding tube removed on Friday, and allow Schiavo's parents to take their case to a federal judge. DeLay said that would likely mean restoration of the feeding tube "for as long as this appeal endures.'' ******* "We're elated primarily that they put politics to one side, and they're concentrating on the issue of saving Terri's life,'' Schiavo's father, Bob Schindler, said late Saturday. ******* Randall Terry, an anti-abortion activist who is acting as a Schindler family spokesman, said the parents also were concerned about the tight security in their daughter's room, which includes a police officer standing guard. ******* "They are so determined to kill her that they don't want mom or dad to even put an ice chip in her mouth,'' Terry said. ******* Passage of the measure would require the presence of only a handful of lawmakers. Congress is on its spring recess, making it more difficult to locate lawmakers. ******* Rep. Robert Wexler, D-Fla., issued a statement late Saturday saying he will make an objection that would stop the vote Sunday. Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., said he was trying to gather enough votes to defeat the bill Monday. ******* "This bill would have the federal government intrude into the most private, personal and painful family decision,'' Blumenauer said. "What people need to think about is how would they feel if Tom DeLay or some other politician decided to second-guess your doctor, or your husband.'' ******* Schiavo could linger for one or two weeks if the tube is not reinserted - as has happened twice before. ******* Doctors say Schiavo is in a persistent vegetative state with no hope of recovery. Her husband has insisted she never wanted to live in such a condition. ******* "I am 100 percent sure,'' Michael Schiavo said Saturday on NBC's "Today.'' He did not respond to requests for an interview from The Associated Press. ******* Michael Schiavo was at his wife's bedside after the tube was removed and said he felt that "peace was happening'' for her. "And I felt like she was finally going to get what she wants, and be at peace and be with the Lord,'' he said. ******* About three dozen supporters of Schiavo's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, maintained a vigil outside the hospice where she lives. Four people, including right wing leader James Gordon "Bo'' Gritz, were arrested on misdemeanor trespassing charges when they attempted to bring Schiavo bread and water, which she would be unable to consume. ******* "A woman is being starved to death, and I have to do something,'' said Brandi Swindell, 28, from Boise, Idaho. "There are just certain things that you have to do, that you have to try.'' ******* Schiavo's parents have been attempting for years to remove Michael Schiavo as their daughter's guardian and keep in place the tube that has kept her alive for more than 15 years. ******* Schiavo suffered severe brain damage in 1990 when a chemical imbalance apparently brought on by an eating disorder caused her heart to stop beating for a few minutes. She can breathe on her own, but has relied on the feeding-and-hydration tube to keep her alive. ******* Court-appointed physicians testified her brain damage was so severe that there was no hope she would ever have any cognitive abilities. ******* The case has encompassed at least 19 judges in at least six different courts. ******* In 2001, Schiavo went without food and water for two days before a judge ordered the tube reinserted when a new witness surfaced. ******* When the tube was removed in October 2003, the governor pushed through "Terri's Law,'' and six days later the tube was reinserted. The Florida Supreme Court ruled in September 2004 that Bush had overstepped his authority and declared the law unconstitutional. ********************************************************************************************************************** ******* item 10 RENOWNED NEUROLOGIST: SCHIAVO CAN EAT WITH AID AND IS NOT IN A "PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE ******* From: http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=20400 via [email protected] ******* Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 ******* By Joni B. Hannigan ******* PINELLAS PARK, Fla. (BP)--A doctor close to the Terri Schiavo case told the Florida Baptist Witness that the 41-year-old disabled woman could actually be fed orally if it were allowed. ******* "The important thing for people to understand is that she can eat and swallow right now,�? said William Hammesfahr, a neurologist who has examined Schiavo. He is in many of the videos circulated through the news media showing that Schiavo is at times responsive and aware. ******* "They are truly withholding food from a person who is awake, alert, and can eat and swallow,�? Hammesfahr said. After spending at least 10 hours with Schiavo several years ago, he told Florida Judge George W. Greer that she can improve with therapy. ******* Hammesfahr said his credibility had been questioned at the time, but he has since been vindicated in court and currently maintains a thriving private practice in Clearwater, Fla. Despite reports attacking him, he said he has never lost his license to practice medicine and currently is involved in litigation surrounding the ordeal. ******* Hammesfahr was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology in 1999 for his work in brain injury and stroke. He is a recognized expert in treating neurological disorders, having successfully treated thousands of patients using vasodilator therapy, which increases blood flow to the brain, thus healing conditions previously thought to be untreatable. ******* Standing with a handful of supporters outside of the hospice late in the evening Mar. 19, Hammesfahr told the Witness Schiavo previously has swallowed pudding and daily swallows almost two liters of water by virtue of being able to process her own saliva and sinus drainage. ******* "That's liquid and that's the most difficult thing to swallow," Hammesfahr said of her saliva. "If she can swallow that she can swallow food or pudding." ******* Other doctors who testified before Greer in 2003 had limited exposure to Schiavo and did not complete standard evaluations for brain injuries, Hammesfahr said. The court-appointed doctors maintained Schiavo is in a persistent vegetative state (PVS), with no chance for recovery. ******* "Terri's not that bad," Hammesfahr said. "She is like a child with cerebral palsy. She can speak. At least when I saw her, she would speak very slowly. She would sort of form words, she would move her arms and legs at command. She could understand questions in English." ******* Hammesfahr said there are at least 50 physicians he knows of, in private practice and related to medical universities who have said Schiavo is not in a PVS or in a coma. ******* In 1990 Schiavo suffered brain damage after her heart stopped. Nearly a decade ago, Schiavo's husband and legal guardian, Michael Schiavo, petitioned the court to halt the dispensing of nutrition and hydration through a feeding tube to his disabled wife. ******* Her parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, as well as family and supporters have argued that she could improve were she provided rehabilitation services. Michael Schiavo has refused to provide those services since around 1993, they say. ******* Although Michael Schiavo says his wife would want to die, no written request from her exists. Terri Schiavo's parents have challenged his continued guardianship of their daughter, citing conflict of interest. Michael Schiavo has lived with his girlfriend, by whom he has fathered two children, for 10 years. ******* Greer ruled Feb. 25 that Schiavo's nutrition and hydration be discontinued and in subsequent decisions ruled she cannot undergo more medical testing and cannot be fed by mouth. Greer also rebuffed a request by Florida's Department of Children and Families for a 60-day stay of his motion so that they could investigate allegations that Michael Schiavo has abused and neglected his wife. ******* Hammesfahr said that about 30 percent of his cases are more severe than Terri Schiavo's, and that she most likely could improve, whether by his approach or another. ******* "You can get almost anybody with a brain injury or a stroke better," Hammesfahr said. "I think that's the long and short of it. ******* "It's not that [Schiavo simply] deserves a chance, she deserves rehabilitation," Hammesfahr continued. "She's not going to get the rehabilitation if she gets killed off here." ******* Each day Schiavo is off the feeding tube increases the chance that she will end up in a coma, Hammesfahr said. He described what happens to the human body when it is deprived of food and water. ******* "People who die of starvation, their acid eats through their stomach, they develop infections in their body, their body starts to dissolve from the inside out, they develop seizures, [and] frequently it breaks their back," he said. "They have to have medications to essentially put them into a coma to not have their body break their back or something of that nature." ******* He explained that the process of putting someone in a coma after withholding nutrition and hydration is part of an "exit protocol" that involves delivering powerful drugs like Morphine and Valium to the patient when they are expected to die. ******* "The danger for Schiavo is that if she is in a coma, she will not have the type of monitoring that could help her recover if the feeding tube is reinserted. ******* "Putting a person in coma is very dangerous", Hammesfahr said, and after 7-8 days she might end up in an irreversible coma or with further brain damage. ******* Angel Watson, a Pinellas Park, Fla., resident who works with the Caring and Sharing Center for Independent Living, said she once was considered to be in a PVS, after a skiing accident left her paralyzed, but that she made remarkable improvements because of her strong will to live. ******* Referring to the two other times Schiavo's feeding tube was removed and surgically re-inserted, Watson said it is wrong to treat Terri as if she would not want to live. ******* Watson questions Michael Schiavo's insistence that he loves his wife and cares deeply for her. Michael Schiavo, Watson said, has had ample proof that his wife wants to live. ******* "She's the embodiment of a living will", Watson said. "She is a living will. He's tried to kill her twice and she has the will to live. ******* "What more [evidence] could you possibly want?" ********************************************************************************************************************** ******* item 11 JEB BUSH CAN SAVE TERRI AND WIN THE PRESIDENCY ******* Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 ******* From: "Mission America" ******* To view this item online, visit http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43451 ******* By Tom Ambrose ******* � 2005 WorldNetDaily.com ******* Terri Schindler-Schiavo is a brain-damaged woman being denied her right to life. She does not deserve a painful execution we wouldn't even subject our dogs or criminals to. If Florida's Gov. Jeb Bush will exercise the authority available to him now � and required of him � to save Terri, he will ensure a victorious run for the White House in 2008. ******* Section 2 of the constitution of the state of Florida states: ******* All natural persons, female and male alike, are equal before the law and have inalienable rights, among which are the right to enjoy and defend life and liberty ... No person shall be deprived of any right because of ... physical disability. ******* Jeb Bush has all the authority he needs right now to remove Terri from those who would kill her and save her life. Indeed, his oath of office requires it: ******* I, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support, protect and defend the Constitution and government of the United States and of the state of Florida ... ******* What part of these words do Jeb Bush and the black-robed high priests with pretensions of godhood not understand? This issue could not be more clear. ******* Terri Schiavo is being killed because she is inconvenient. If Terri is allowed to live, every disabled person among Florida's substantial retirement community will be protected against having their lives � and their Florida Medicare payments � terminated by highly compromised politicians. Additionally, Terri was injured under suspicious circumstances that have not been properly investigated. If her adulterous husband has his way, we'll very likely never find out the truth. ******* If Terri dies, America dies with her. Nobody in this nation will ever be safe again because anyone who is inconvenient � who might cost the state too much money, who is a "burden" on others, who is genetically undesirable, who is (fill in the blank) � will be subject to the whims of judicial arrogance. ******* When Roe v. Wade became law many years ago, pro-life activists warned about situations like Terri Schiavo's. They were ridiculed as extremists. What Terri Schiavo's death will lead to could eventually make Hitler's Nazi Germany look like Disneyland by comparison. God have mercy on America if this evil is allowed to stand. ******* If Gov. Bush will confront this evil by sending in the state police or national guard to protect Terri, he will be remembered for his courage and integrity. Moreover, his commitment to his oath of office and to protecting the citizens under his care will likely ensure him a successful run for the White House in 2008. The publicity value of his actions alone will guarantee that his name will become a household word in America as the dwindling pro-death crowd hiss about him and those who value life praise him. ******* If, on the other hand, Jeb Bush fails to protect Terri, her blood is on his hands and America will not forget his moral cowardice. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Tom Ambrose is the commentary editor of WorldNetDaily. ----------------- Mail service for Mission America provided by ******* American Family Online www.afo.net ******* Mission America www.missionamerica.com ******************************************************************************************************************* ******* item 12 ABC'S PHONY SURVEY AND NAZI MEDICINE VERSUS TERRI'S LIFE ******* Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 ******* From: "Mission America" ******* From one of our list members--links to 2 insightful articles ******* From: Robert Jason ******* Dear Friends: ******* ...It would be highly instructive to take a peek immediately below at the bias of the left-liberal Mainstream Media (MSM), particularly on the sad Schiavo Saga: (The following excerpt is taken from the latest column by the brilliant Michelle Malkin) <><> ******* "However you feel about the Terri Schiavo case, one fact is indisputable: The mainstream media coverage of the matter has been abysmal. On a fundamental matter of life and death, the MSM heavyweights have proven themselves utterly incapable of reporting fairly. Take a widely publicized ABC News poll released on Monday that supposedly showed strong public opposition to any Washington intervention in Terri's case. Here is how the spinmasters framed the main poll question: ******* As you may know, a woman in Florida named Terri Schiavo suffered brain damage and has been on life support for 15 years. Doctors say she has no consciousness and her condition is irreversible. Her parents and her husband disagree on whether or not she should be kept on life support. In cases like this who do you think should have final say, (the parents) or (the spouse)? ******* A follow-up question asked: ******* If you were in this condition, would you want to be kept alive, or not? ******* The problem is that, contrary to what ABC News told those polled, Terri Schiavo is not on "life support" and has never been on "life support." The loaded phrase evokes images of a comatose patient being artificially sustained by myriad machines and pumps and wires. Terri was on a feeding tube. A feeding tube is not a ventilator. Terri can breathe just fine on her own." (To read Malkin's piece further, go to the link below - RJ) ******* http://www.townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/mm20050323.shtml ******* To view this item online, visit http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43443 ******* NAZIS: PIONEERS IN MEDICINE ******* by Patrick J. Buchanan ******* � 2005 Creators Syndicate, Inc. ******* Ours is a nation where a judge may not sentence Beltway sniper Lee Malvo to death, because he is too young to die, but can sentence Terri Schiavo to death, because she is too severely handicapped to live. ******* Schiavo continues the process of dying by starvation and dehydration, a method of capital punishment most would consider criminal if done to a pet. This was the method used at Auschwitz to murder Father Maximilian Kolbe, the priest who volunteered to take the place of a Polish father of a large family, who was one of 10 the camp commandant had selected for execution in reprisal for the escape of a prisoner. ******* After being starved and dehydrated for days, Kolbe was injected by his Nazi captors with carbolic acid. He died a martyr's death, said the church that canonized him. That is what would have happened to Terri. Only she would have been denied the lethal injection by those watching her die. ******* That there arose a national outcry at the execution of Schiavo � so loud Congress and President Bush heard it and came to the rescue � is a sign America is not morally dead ... yet. But a culture of death has taken deep root in America's soul. ******* One wonders if our young, so many of them cheated of a knowledge of history in schools they are forced to attend, are aware of how closely our elites approximate, in belief and argument, the elites of Weimar and Nazi Germany in the 1920s and 1930s. ******* In 1920, Dr. Alfred Hoche, professor of psychiatry at the University of Freiburg, and Karl Binding, a law professor at Leipzig, authored "The Permission to Destroy Life Unworthy of Life." They urged a national policy of assisted suicide for those "empty shells of human beings" � the terminally ill and mentally retarded, and those with brain damage and psychiatric conditions. ******* In October 1933, The New York Times quoted the Nazi minister of justice as saying that ridding Germany of such poor creatures would make it "possible for physicians to end the tortures of incurable patients, upon requests, in the interests of true humanity." "If we desire a certain type of civilization," said George Bernard Shaw, "we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit in." ******* In researching "The Death of the West," I discovered that the first episode of publicized "legal" killing of an innocent was the case of "Baby Knauer." The father of the little boy, who was blind, retarded and missing an arm and a leg, appealed to the Fuhrer for permission to have his son put to death. Hitler referred the matter to his physician, Karl Brandt. In 1938, permission was granted. ******* When war came in 1939, a program code-named "Aktion 4" went about systematically eliminating all "life unworthy of life" in the Reich. By 1940, scores of thousands had been put to death. Then, Bishop Clemens von Galen took to the pulpit of Munster Cathedral to damn Hitler's regime for "plain murder" and direct German Catholics to "withdraw ourselves and our faithful from their (Nazi) influence so that we may not be contaminated by their thinking and their ungodly behavior." ******* "Aktion 4" went underground. One of its graduates, Franz Stangl, would turn up two years later as commandant of Treblinka. ******* After the war, the German doctors who had carried out Hitler's orders in violation of the Hippocratic Oath were judged guilty of "crimes against humanity." The Dutch doctors who refused to cooperate in the Nazi program of eliminating "life unworthy of life" during the occupation of Holland were placed among the moral heroes of an immoral era. ******* Ironically, as the protest to save Schiavo built up steam over the weekend, The New York Times in its "Saturday Profile" warmly featured another Dutch doctor. Dr. Eduard Verhagen has, said the Times, become famous in Europe for having "presided over the medically induced deaths of four extraordinarily ill newborns." ******* "For his efforts to end what he calls unbearable and incurable suffering," wrote reporter Gregory Crouch, "Dr. Verhagen has been called Dr. Death, a second Hitler and worse � mostly by American opponents of euthanasia." ******* Verhagen describes himself as a bearer of peace and happiness to children. When these suffering little ones die, he says, "the child goes to sleep. ... It's beautiful in a way. ... They're children who are severely ill and in great pain. It is after they die that you see them relaxed for the first time. You see their faces in a way they should be for the first time." ******* Franz Stangl could not have put it better. Hitler's doctors may prove to have been the medical pioneers of 21st century. --------------------------------------------------------------------- SPECIAL OFFER: Pat Buchanan's book, "The Death of the West," an eye-opening expos� of how immigration invasions are endangering America, is now available at HALF-PRICE from WorldNetDaily's online store! Autographed edition also available! --------------------------------------------------------------------- Patrick J. Buchanan was twice a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination and the Reform Party�s candidate in 2000. He is also a founder and editor of the new magazine, The American Conservative. Now a political analyst for MSNBC and a syndicated columnist, he served three presidents in the White House, was a founding panelist of three national television shows, and is the author of seven books. ------------------------- Mail service for Mission America provided by American Family Online www.afo.net ******* Mission America www.missionamerica.com ******************************************************************************************************************* ******* item 13 PARENTS' MEMORIAL FOR TERRI SCHIAVO DRAWS 800 SUPPORTERS ******* From: "LifeNews.com" ******* Subject: LifeNews.com Pro-Life News Report 4/6/05 #3455 ******* Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 ******* For news updated throughout the day, visit LifeNews.com. ******* Gulfport, FL (LifeNews.com) -- Hundreds of supporters of Terri Schiavo and her family attended a memorial service and mass at a southwest Florida Catholic church. At least 800 people attended the service and an overflow crowd sat in folding chairs outside or stood as the service played on a loudspeaker. Terri's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler and her brother and sister sat in the front row of the Most Holy Name of Jesus Catholic Church during the service. "She showed us how to live. She showed us the gift of life and how we should share it," Rev. Thaddeus Malanowski said. He was the priest who had visited Terri for years at her hospice along with her family. Suzanne Vitadamo, Terri's sister, said Terri had "shown the world what perseverance and determination are all about." "Your smile brought us great joy," she said. "You have shown the world what perseverance and determination are all about. You didn't want to give up but God called you home, and he loves you more than we do. I miss you." Father Frank Pavone, the director of the pro-life group Priests for Life also spoke at the service and said the tragedy that happened to Terri should prompt people who supported her to work to protect the disabled. "God calls us to go forth from this place to work together, to preach and witness together so what happened in this tragic case will never happen again," Father Pavone said. "Tonight we grieve," Pavone said. "Tonight we weep, tonight we rejoice and we celebrate. Tonight we express eternal hope, tonight we resolve to go forth and do the work that must be done." ******************************************************************************************************************* ******* item 14 MAE MAGOURIK, ANOTHER TERRI SCHIAVO ******* From: "Suzanne Fortin" ******* Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 ******* MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH ******* Granddaughter yanks grandma's feeding tube 81-year-old not terminally ill, comatose, nor in vegetative state ******* By Sarah Foster � 2005 WorldNetDaily.com ******* In a situation recalling the recent death of Terri Schiavo in Florida, an 81-year-old widow, denied nourishment and fluids for nearly two weeks, is clinging to life in a hospice in LaGrange, Ga., while her immediate family fights desperately to save her life before she dies of starvation and dehydration. ******* Mae Magouirk was not terminally ill, comatose nor in a "vegetative state," when Hospice-LaGrange accepted her as a patient about two weeks ago upon the request of her granddaughter, Beth Gaddy, 36, an elementary school teacher. ******* Also upon Gaddy's request and without prior legal authority, since March 28 Hospice-LaGrange has denied Magouirk normal nourishment or fluids via a feeding tube through her nose or fluids via an IV. She has been kept sedated with morphine and ativan, a powerful tranquillizer. ******* http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43688 ******************************************************************************************************** ******* item 15 GROWING NUMBER OF SENIORS FEAR BEING EUTHANIZED, NEW ZEALAND GROUP REPORTS ******* from: [email protected]� ******* Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 ******* WELLINGTON, February 8 (CNA) - Family Life International says an increasing number of elderly New Zealanders are concerned about being euthanized by medical staff.�?******* �In the last 12 months, we have seen a marked increase in enquiries from people who want to know what they can do to legally protect themselves from people like Dr. [Philip] Nitschke, who believes that medical staff should be allowed to kill patients,� says Family Life International media spokesperson Brendan Malone.?******* The Australian medical doctor founded Exit International, a pro-euthanasia organization, in 1997. The group actively lobbies for pro-euthanasia legislation.?******* �Older New Zealanders appear to be particularly frightened by the increasing promotion of euthanasia, which promotes the false idea that elderly people are a burden on society and that it is a good thing to prematurely end their lives,� Malone said.?******* �Dr. Philip Nitschke�s claims that you can have safe and legal euthanasia are completely countered by the experience of the Netherlands, where, since the advent of decriminalized euthanasia, thousands of people have been euthanized without giving consent, and many elderly people are scared of hospitals and doctors.�?******* Family Life International offers a generic patient protection document that many people have adopted and specified for their own situation.?******* �Patient protection documents allow people to take legal steps to protect themselves from the ever increasing threat of euthanasia� says Malone. ********************************************************************************************************

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