Update from Cheryl Ford

From Cheryl Ford via email:

MARCH 28,2005
10:15 AM ET

I JUST SPOKE WITH BOB SCHINDLER, TERRI'S FATHER. LAST NIGHT
TERRI HAD TWO OLD FRIENDS VISIT WITH HER. THE TWO WOMAN USED TO PARTY WITH TERRI. THEY WERE ON TERRI'S VISITORS LIST AND RECENTLY ARRIVED INTO TOWN TO VISIT TERRI. WHEN TERRI SAW THEM SHE BECAME EXCITED AND BEGAN INTERACTING WITH THEM, RAISING HER ARM, AND TRYING TO TALK TO THEM. MR. SCHINDLER SAID, " DESPITE HOW SUNKEN IN HER FACE IS BECAUSE THEY ARE STARVING AND DEHYDRATING HER, SHE WAS ALERT, VIBRANT AND WONDERFUL LAST NIGHT."

MR. SCHINDLER IS WORRIED BECAUSE HE NEVER KNOWS HOW MUCH MORPHINE THEY WILL GIVE TO HER IN BETWEEN HIS VISITS. HE BELEIVES IT IS THE MORPHINE THAT THEY ARE GIVING TO HER WHICH MAKES HER LETHARGIC, CONSEQUENTLY MAKING IT MORE DIFFICULT FOR HER TO BREATH.

PLEASE PRAY FOR A MIRACLE. TERRI IS FIGHTING TO REMAIN ALIVE.
IF YOU KNOW HOW TO HELP HER....PLEASE USE YOUR CONTACTS.

CONTINUE TO CALL THE PRESIDENT. BEG HIM TO PLEASE TAKE ACTION TO SAVE TERRI. TERRI IS NOT READY TO DIE...SHE HAS A RIGHT TO LIVE AND SHE NEEDS OUR HELP BEFORE THEY OVERDOSE HER WITH MORPHINE.

THANK YOU,
CHERYL

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Terri Schiavo OpEd/Blog roundup

OpEd Roundup:

Vox Day: Schiavo solves Social Security

Joseph Farrah: After Terri

Barbara Simpson: Terri's life trumps Bushes' careers

Andrew Kline: Not Their Kind of Woman (Feminists and Terri Schiavo)

Gerald Warner: Time for a moral revolution

Joe Ford of the Harvard Crimson: Bigotry and the Murder of Terri Schiavo

John Leo: Red and blue bioethics

John Fund: Selective Restraint

Blog Roundup:

Florida impotent Governor: ScrappleFace, Pajama Hadin

Heartless Judiciary: Blogs for Terri, GOPInsight

Brain dead media: Michelle Malkin (also here), Right Wing News, Common Sense Run Wild, Hyscience

Life: Michelle Malkin, Blogs for Terri, GOPInsight

Nazi Eugenics: Right Wing News, RW Conspiracy

The Future: Blogs for Terri (also here), CalBlog

Call to Action: Blogs for Terri, Hyscience

Recommended: Right Wing News

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The Michael Schiavo guide for murdering your wife and getting away with it.

Lets say a nursing student, for the sake of the illustration we'll call him “Mike” decided he wanted to kill his wife. Now said wife, oh, let's call her “Terri” had been dieting recently, but was still well within normal weight for her height. “Mike” wanted to do her in, in a way that could be dismissed as “natural causes”. As a nursing student/nurse, he'd have access to the knowledge, equipment and medicine to do so, but what would look natural. Let's say “Mike” took a B-D 3ml 25g1 1/2 syringe (I'm have one setting on my desk in front of me. It's very thin but long. Thin enough to be missed unless someone was intentionally and carefully looking for puncture marks) and put a carefully measured amount of injectable KCL or Potassium Chloride, something easily available to nurses, nursing students, medical students even from veterinarians. As a nurse/nursing student he'd have plenty of time to practice with the syringe to get the timing down just right, and when she was distracted -- wham -- a quick shot straight into the chest cavity center left.

I'm told that a direct dose of KCL with that kind of syringe, to the heart will stop it in less than a minute. So “Mike” waits a few minutes, then makes “frantic” call to 911. But they get there sooner than he expected and are able to revive her. Once in the emergency room they note the elevated potassium level, but are told she'd been dieting, and assume Bulimia. “Mike” can't get to her to finish the job yet, but before he has a chance to the prospect of a juicy malpractice suit raises it's ugly head. So he waits, and after the money is secure, looks for a way to finish the job.

But an elevated potassium level in a hospital would look suspicious. Maybe insulin shock? Easy to cause, just inject some insulin. But the nurses are too quick and treat “Terri” before the effects can cause her death. 

This is just a theory. I'm not a medical professional, but some of you may be and could shed light on the plausibility of this scenario. I'm told that the enzymes typically associated with a heart attack were absent from Terri Schiavo's blood stream following her collapse. Would an injection of KCL to the heart leave such enzymes? What would the residue potassium in her blood stream be, given the quantity needed to stop the heart? Would an injection site that small be noticed by an EMS team, or emergency room doctors? Would there be records of injectable potassium chloride and syringes being removed from a hospital or nursing school?

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Ever growing ripples

The Associated Press reports that Terri Schiavo's adulterous husband, who is having her tortured to death, allowed her priest to give Terri communion yesterday. But because Terri's mouth was so dry, she was unable to received half of the sacrament. The Ass. Press as well as other news agencies consider this “receiving communion” but when half the ritual is unable to be performed because the victim is in the process of being tortured to death, I find it hard to see how that can legitimately be considered Communion. Of course I'm not Roman Catholic, so I don't know all of what they consider communion, but I do know that the Bible no where describes it as just the cup of the vine without the bread.

Cardinal William Keeler, the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee for Pro-Life Activities said Thursday:

“Terri Schiavo remains at the center of a dispute as our nation's citizens follow the news with growing horror. Now this severely disabled woman is dying slowly from being denied food and water. Since her feeding tube was removed on March 18, her parents reportedly are not even allowed to wet her parched lips. 

“As the Catholic bishops of Florida recently said, Terri Schindler Schiavo is a 'defenseless human being with inherent dignity' who deserves care and respect. Her serious disabilities make her no less a child of God. She deserves no less than human care and the respect due every human being. She is not in a coma, she is not on 'life support.'

“She needs only basic care and assistance in obtaining food and water. When her feeding tube was removed last week it ensured that death will follow, for none of us can sustain our lives without such nourishment. ...

“God will call Terri Schiavo to Himself when it is her time to die. It is not for us to determine when that time is.”

 It also seems that the repercussions of the American government's decision to allow the barbarous execution of Terri Schiavo is having an effect world-wide. In his Easter sermon, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, leader of the Roman Catholic church in England and Wales, warned of the dangers facing England and the world.

The terrible truth is that it is the strong who decide the fate of the weak; human beings therefore become instruments in the hands of other human beings.

That way lies eugenics, and we know from German history where that leads. We are already on that road, for what else is the termination of six million lives in the womb since the Abortion Act was introduced, and embryo selection of the basis of gender and genes?

I am glad I spoke out, for a nerve was touched, and it gave the chance for many, many people - the majority, according to a number of recent opinion polls - to express their unease at the thousands of abortions that take place each year in our country.

That unease can come from only one place: a deep seated intuition that lives considered worthless are, in fact, lives created by God.

While it sounds like this may only be a Catholic issue, voices are being raised in many other areas. Former Democratic vice presidential candidate and Democratic U.S. senator from Connecticut, Joseph Lieberman, who is a practicing Jew, said on Tim Russert's “Meet the Press”

I have been saying this in speeches to students about why getting involved in government is so important. I always say the law is where we define the beginning of life and the end of life, and that's exactly what was going on here, and I think as a matter of law, if you go - particularly to the 14th Amendment, [you] can't be denied due process, have your life or liberty taken without due process of law, that though the Congress' involvement here was awkward, unconventional, it was justified to give this woman, more than her parents or husband, the opportunity for one more chance before her life was terminated by an act which was sanctioned by a court, by the state.

These are very difficult decisions, but - of course, if you ask me what I would do if I was the Florida Legislature or any state legislature, I'd say that if somebody doesn't have a living will and the next of kin disagree on whether the person should be kept alive or that is whether food and water should be taken away and her life ended - that really the benefit of the doubt ought to be given to life.

The family member who wants to sustain her life ought to have that right because the judge really doesn't know, though he heard the facts, one judge, what Terri Schiavo wanted. He made a best guess based on the evidence before him. That's not enough when you're talking about aggressively removing food and water to end someone's life.

Echoing Leiberman's sentiments are Rabbi Yehuda Levin and the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada. Rabbi Levin issued the following statement on behalf of the Rabbis:

"We urge President George Bush and Florida Governor Jeb Bush to take immediate, decisive action to save the life of Terri Schindler-Schiavo. We appreciate the pro-life statements of President Bush and Governor Bush. Yet, their efforts have thus far not been successful. We therefore urge the President and Governor Bush to take immediate and decisive action - either jointly or separately - to save the life of Terri Schindler-Schiavo before it is too late.

"When evil becomes 'legally' sanctioned by government, it rises to a higher order of evil - that of Sodom. Legality does not dictate morality. The Almighty dictates morality.

"America is being tested. Will we pass or will we fail?

"Perhaps some feel that everything that could be done has been done. But our holy Torah, the Word of G-d, says otherwise: 'Am I my brother's keeper?' We all know the answer."

Perhaps as NewsMax reports, we are much further down  the slippery slope to the next Holocaust than we realize:

Shortly after World War II, a U.S. congressional committee investigated the Nazi Holocaust and found that starvation was the main instrument of torture in the concentration camps.

The Committee notes the prisoners' daily diet "consisted generally of about one-half of a pound of black bread per day and a bowl of watery soup for noon and night, and not always that."

The report continued: "Notwithstanding the deliberate starvation program inflicted upon these prisoners by lack of adequate food, we found no evidence that the people of Germany as a whole were suffering from any lack of sufficient food or clothing. The contrast was so striking that the only conclusion which we could reach was that the starvation of the inmates of these camps was deliberate."

The article also note that the Geneva Convention lists starvation as a War Crime and Amnesty International has long cited starvation as inhumane. Numerous other Liberal organizations were listed that have in the past bemoaned the inhumanity of starvation, all of which seem to be in agreement with the MSM's contention that starvation is a “pleasant” way to die.

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Mindless Media Myrmidons

In another blatant attempt at yellow journalism the Scotsman portrays the fight over what to do with Terri following her murder, as a “family squabble”

The legal fight to keep brain-damaged Terri Schiavo alive appeared to be over last night, but a new row erupted between her husband and her parents over what will happen to her body after she dies.

Michael Schiavo, who had his wife’s feeding tube removed by court order ten days ago, has made arrangements for her to be cremated and her ashes interred in his family’s plot in Pennsylvania.

But Bob and Mary Schindler want their daughter to have a Roman Catholic funeral service and to be buried near their home in Clearwater, Florida....

Michael Schiavo’s lawyer, George Felos, said a judge had already backed the cremation plan. "My client will scrupulously follow the court order," he said. "Her ashes will be interred in the Schiavo family plot in Pennsylvania, where Terri and Michael grew up."

What's conveniently omitted is the suspicious reason behind Michael Schiavo's eagerness to have his estranged wife quickly cremated.

Michael Schiavo decided to have his wife's body cremated after her parents' lawyers obtained medical records showing she had sustained broken bones, a nurse who cared for Terri Schiavo is now claiming.

"He wanted her cremated after the bone fractures and dislocations were found," nurse Carla Sauer Iyer, who cared for Terri in the mid-1990s while she was at the Palm Gardens Convalescent Center, told ABC Radio host Sean Hannity on Friday.

"He immediately went to court and [said he] wanted her body cremated at that time," she said, "after we got hold of the records that proved there were dislocations and fractures."
A 1991 report on a bone scan performed on Terri Schiavo states:

"There are an extensive number of focal abnormal areas ... These include: multiple bilateral ribs ... both sacroiliac joints ... both knees and both ankles."

Radiographs reveal "compression fractures" of the spine and right femur. ... "Compression fracture presumably traumatic," the report says.

There is more than one source for suspicion of abuse.

A friend of Terri Schiavo's says the disabled woman frequently had bruises on her arms and legs prior to her collapse in 1990. The comments lend further evidence to allegations that Terri's estranged husband Michael abused her and that those actions caused her current condition.

"I did notice bruises on her upper arms and upper legs," Jackie Rhodes told Fox News Channel's Greta Van Susteren.

The two worked together at an insurance company's office.

Rhodes said she wasn't phased at the time by Terri's frequent bruising and attributed it to "maybe running into the desk at work or, you know, maybe she was extra-sensitive."

"But now, hindsight tells me that I did see them quite frequently and that they may have been more than just a bump into the desk," Rhodes explained told Fox News.

"They were mostly bruises where normally they would be covered up, you know, during the work day," she said on Van Susteren's program. "They were smaller bruises, like maybe someone had grabbed her or, you know, like, squeezed her arm or leg really tight."

She also says that Michael and Terri had a heated argument not long before Terri's collapse in which divorce was discussed.

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Must be torture

FoxNews reports that George Greer, who ordered the torture and execution of Terri Schiavo on behalf of her adulterous husband is having a hard time. His church kicked him out, protestors surround his house, he is under constant police protection due to the numerous death threats he has received. The Judge that FoxNews erroneously refers to as a “Conservative Christian” (among numerous other errors FoxNews has made in the past few weeks -- but then the other media outlets are far worse) ran for the bench in 1992 after the, as yet unexplained, death of his parents. Reported to be in a tight political circle with the district attorney and the local sheriff, Judge Greer's career had already been marked with idiocy and a lack of compassion.

Now Greer's own family is also under police protection, and a North Carolina man has already been arrested for putting a $50,000 bounty of Greer's head. Some seem surprised, but such a reaction was predicted long ago.

In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the gelding be fruitful. -- C. S. Lewis

Greer has made a mockery of the law, and of the sanctity of life, is it any wonder some would want him dead?

Pat Anderson, Attorney for the Schindlers is quoted as saying:

"A lawyer told me when I first got involved in this case that he (Greer) does not have a reverse on his transmission. He apparently is too prideful to say 'I made a mistake. I made a mistake because I didn't have all the information and I am sorry I made a mistake."'

Like I tell my kids, you have to live with the consequences of your decisions.

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The diversity of true compassion

From LifeNews:

Support for Terri Schiavo and her parents efforts to prevent her painful starvation death isn't just limited to conservatives, Republicans, Catholics or pro-life groups. A number of Democratic lawmakers and liberal political advocates want to protect Terri or, at least, allow her parents to have hearings in federal courts on their case.

Former presidential candidate and consumer advocate Ralph Nader says a "profound injustice is being inflicted on Terri Schiavo" and he is urging Florida courts to allow Terri to stay alive.

According to CNS News, Nader released a joint statement with noted author and attorney Wesley Smith condemning the forces causing Terri's death.

Others from the left who have sided with Terri: Jess Jackson, Harry Reid, Sen. Bill Nelson, Democratic Senator Kent Conrad of North Dakota, Rep. Jose Serrano, a New York Democrat, Democrat Stephen Lynch of Massachusetts and as previously mentioned Joseph Leiberman.

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Cheryl Ford: What Happened To “The Best of America?”

From Cheryl Ford via email:

March 27, 2005

What Happened To "The Best of America?"  by Cheryl Ford RN

The realities of Terri lying in a bed as a victim being murdered on this 10th day of no food and water is incredibly difficult for many civilized people to digest. The leaders of our country have deserted not only Terri, but all of us. My emotions vacillate; I am numb, angry, appalled, and very saddened by what is happening to Terri.  I still cannot believe this is happening to her, here in America.  Furthermore, I cannot understand how our government and court system has endorsed the act of killing a person, who last week was not dying.

Please! I ask that with all due respect to those who are terminally ill and who are wrongly euthanized each year, I implore the people of this nation not  to sweep Terri's situation into the definitions of euthanasia.  Euthanasia is indeed wrong, and is happening to many who are terminally ill.   However, that is NOT what is happening to Terri. Terri is being MURDERED! To allow Terri to die with the notion she was euthanized because of a terminal illness would be another miscarriage of justice to her and to us as a society.  We must acknowledge what is actually happening to Terri in order to stop this from ever happening again. Terri is being murdered by an estranged spouse who lied to the courts with his hearsay evidence that Terri did not wish to live as a disabled person.

I cannot tolerate hearing the media repeatedly rationalize murdering a healthy human being with a disability, and then classify her KILLER as a caring husband!   Let us not forget, aside from her brain injury, Terri is a healthy human being who could have easily lived another 30 plus years without any problems. She has a healthy heart, healthy liver, healthy lungs, healthy kidneys and could swallow her own saliva. She breaths on her own and is not on life support. She communicates with her family and has a loving spirit.  I am outraged at the media for their ignorance and promotion of her MURDER! There are over 220 documented entries in Terri's medical records by physicians and therapists stating Terri could have been rehabilitated. 

Murder is wrong!  Once upon a time, murder was against the laws of our land and our judicial system.  It is no longer. For this reason, I grieve for not only Terri, but for our entire country right now. For America to endorse murder, will only bring forth the same  problems here on American soil, that we are spending billions of our tax dollars trying to stop over in Iraq.

I am outraged by our Government and courts who have supported the inhumane killing of an innocent girl on American soil.  You should be as well!  How dare they allow a healthy disabled citizen of the United States of America to spend 10 long days without food and water and then deny the Department of Children and Family Services the right to go in and save her after they exposed her abuse and neglect?  How dare our Government and courts allow a small time Florida judge, a death attorney and an evil estranged spouse the right to get away with the most heinous crime known to man......the torture and murder of an innocent human being by starvation and dehydration!

People can deny the facts of Terri's murder all they want, however, what we have done by allowing Terri to be starved and dehydrated, is to turn on gas in the death chambers for disabled people all over America. We have set the foundation for the construction of many new chambers soon to come.  Many will now follow in Terri's wake. 

I feel for my colleagues; the dedicated nurses who have compassion and respect for the preservation of life,  who still have to work in hospitals and nursing homes to make a living.  If society thinks the world of medicine is suffering from a nursing shortage now, wait until they see what will happen to the profession when nurses are forced to carry through with physicians orders which read, discontinue the feeding tube on those patients who are disabled and smiling at them.  

Sadly, on the clock of the Bush Administration, our President will be known for initializing future forums for legalized murder of the disabled.  Thousands who have supported President Bush in his election, and hundreds from the Pro Life organizations, have written to me in disbelief of his actions. I suppose we all had expected him to take the same stand he did when he stood on the pile of rubble at ground zero. The speech our President made on the evening of September 11, 2001,  "Today, our nation saw evil, the very worst of human nature, and we responded with the best of America."  I must ask our President, is the cruel and inhumane starvation and dehydration of one innocent disabled girl on American soil, allowed by our judicial system, not as evil? Yes, President Bush, I ask...."What happened to the best of America?"

As for our dear Terri, while Michael Schiavo succeeds in MURDERING her, I know her legacy will live on. She will go down in history as the first disabled person, who was led as a martyr through the American doors of legalized murder.   

In conclusion, the involvement of the US Congress and their inability to intercede in a case involving blatant judicial homicide has helped to remind me of a time in our history when disabled people were once marched to their death.  I can now see how critical it is for me to go on fighting for Terri in the quest to STOP the legalized murder of our innocent disabled citizens.

May God Bless You Theresa Marie Schindler. Though we never met, you will always remain a part of my life.

Fight4Terri@aol.com

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