From the Terri’s Fight mailing list: Terri Schindler-Schiavo, age 39, will have her feeding tube removed at 2PM on Wednesday, October 15, unless Governor Jeb Bush is persuaded to intervene. On Monday, October 13, at 12 noon, Terri’s family and friends will begin a 24-hour-a-day vigil outside the Woodside Hospice where Terri lives. Hospice Woodside… Continue reading Terri’s Time is Running Out
Category: Life Issues
Federal Judge: “Let the starvation commence on schedule…”
“…’cause it’s ain’t my jurisdiction. And no more wasting time seeing if she can eat by mouth, anyway.” What if the Schindlers (Terri’s parents) had argued that depriving Terri of rehabilitation was depriving therapists of work, and therefore depriving Florida of tax revenue based on their income oh, crumb, not even that would have worked… Continue reading Federal Judge: “Let the starvation commence on schedule…”
More Good News for Terri’s Fight
Governor Jeb Bush has filed an Amicus Memorandum on behalf of Terri! (link requires Adobe) Thanks to Earl at Times Against Humanity for the heads-up.
Terri update
Check out the latest developments on the Terri Schiavo case! There are two letters, from Bishops Paul Loverde of Arlington and Raymond J. Burke of LaCrosse, reiterating Catholic teaching on this issue: “The inherent worth of the life of Theresa Schiavo obligates all concerned to provide her with care and support and to reject any… Continue reading Terri update
My husband is going to be elated when he sees this
Times Against Humanity brings us glad tidings indeed: A recent study published in the Danish medical review, Dagens Medicin, reports that women who choose a glass of wine over beer or spirits are more likely to conceive babies. And the good news gets even better! According to the research, directed by Mette Juhl of the… Continue reading My husband is going to be elated when he sees this
Terri’s starvation commences October 19
On Wednesday, Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Court Judge George Greer set Oct. 15 at 2 p.m. as the date to remove the artificial feeding tube that has been keeping the 39-year-old Pinellas woman alive for the past 13 years. In another ruling, Greer denied Terri’s parents’ request for immediate therapy for their daughter. They had hoped she… Continue reading Terri’s starvation commences October 19
More on Terri’s Fight
Wesley J. Smith on the latest legal maneuver. Perhaps those who want Terri dead have been outflanked. Pat Anderson, the lawyer for Terri’s parents, is arguing that Michael Schiavo is only petitioning to end Terri’s tube feedings — Terri still has the right to eat by mouth, and she still has the right to rehabilitation… Continue reading More on Terri’s Fight
“We dodged the bullet again….”
“We dodged the bullet again – for another week,” said [Terri’s] father…. CLEARWATER, Fla. — A judge on Thursday postponed issuing an order removing a feeding tube keeping a brain-damaged woman alive after her parents argued that she first should be given the chance to learn to eat. Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Judge George W. Greer now… Continue reading “We dodged the bullet again….”