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Let's pray for Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged woman who has been sentenced to death by starvation -- because her husband doesn't think her life is "valuable".

And let's ask ourselves ... where this is all going to end?

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GuestColumns/Federer20031017.shtml

Let us continue to pray for her .. I just read something about a special session of the legislature in Florida regarding this case ...
Whoever has updates on this perhaps can post them here for us so we can know what is going on.
I will have to listen to the news and see; I didn't hear the case mentioned on the news last time I listened.
C of S

Looking on World Net Daily.com, you will see 'Terri's Bill' being discussed in legislature in Fla today but ... I do not know the results of the session. This bill would produce an immediate moratorium on all such induced deaths ...!
Does anyone have an update?
C of S

This has concerned me for a long time since I first heard about it.

If intervention does come because of this special session I hope it is not too late for Terri but it will be in time for others.

I can't help feeling that we do not know the whole story - there are always 2 sides to every question and here I think we have only really seen one side of it and had a hint of the other .

But of this I am in no doubt - Terri is suffering terribly at the moment.

I pray that Terri's pain will be eased and she will be at peace.

Anhelyna

Unbridled judicial homocide.

Slava Isusu Christu!
Glenn
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I heard an interview with the husband on CBS Radio this weekend - he insists that the media haven't described the procedure correctly, and that his wife's death will be "peaceful" and "painless".

Surrrrre ...

I really can't believe what is happening !

As I understand it this is the caring husband who is living with another woman, has one child by her ,and I think I have picked this up correctly - is awaiting the birth of another .


Lord have mercy

Anhelyna - praying for Terri

Terri is in my prayers.My the Lord be with her.Greg

Lord hear our prayer for Terri Schiavo and for her parents. I can't imagine how they must be suffering.

World Net Daily reports that another special session for 'Terri's Bill' is going on right now, at 7:45 eastern time, and just think, if it goes through, Terri's and all such forced measures will be stopped immediately!

Here is another article relevant to this topic.

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2003/10/19/21347.shtml

There is a Catholic nurse from (I believe), Missouri by the name of Nancy Valko who distributes an e-mail list with regular articles such as this and comments on pro-life related issues. She has worked in the Catholic hospital system for a long time. To get on her mailing list, write to her at: nv333@mindspring.com

She is vehemently opposed to all violations of human life and very outspoken in her campaigns to promote a "culture of life." Nurse Valko has even taken on the Catholic hierarchy, if she feels they have been lacking in their response to the defense of all human life.
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Below is another example of Nurse Valko's comments and a link to an article she sent out:

Comment: Notice the hospice connection of the Senate President King and his expansion of the proxy bill. As both a former hospice nurse and someone who testified in the Missouri legislature in the early 90s on the dangers of the proposed Missouri surrogate decisionmaking law against groups like Midwest Bioethics, I am outraged by the hijacking of good medical care by the "right to die" enthusiasts. Terri's tragic situation should open many eyes.
Nancy V.
This is a WorldNetDaily printer-friendly version of the article which follows.
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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35161

God bless you all,

Fr. Joe

Terry Schiavo was the focal point of our priest's homily this past Sunday. Her priest has been denied the right (at least I thought it was a right) to give hery Holy Communion (viaticum) because it may demonstrate that she is able to take food orally, which of course the evildoers do not want.

I never thought murder would be allowed like this. Truly, truly, what an abomination to God, what a violation of the most basic human rights. Disgusting.

Logos Teen

>>>Terry Schiavo was the focal point of our priest's homily this past Sunday. Her priest has been denied the right (at least I thought it was a right) to give hery Holy Communion (viaticum) because it may demonstrate that she is able to take food orally, which of course the evildoers do not want.<<<<

???? That is a ridiculous argument!

So what if she can? That would mean they can pull the tube and be legally forced as a nursing facility to feed her orally, rather than pulling the tube and refusing to feed her orally?

He is right. It will be somewhat painless- through drugs. They will probably give her morphine suppositories as her body temperature starts to rise from lack of fluid. The morphine will depress her respirations and she will die from respiratory/cardiac arrest.

Terry Schiavo isn't the first one to die like this. She may be the first on in a nursing home whose family does not see eye to eye, but the morphine route has been going on for years in home/hospice settings.

Sam

"I pray that Terri's pain will be eased and she will be at peace.

Anhelyna"


Amen!

"Terri's Bill" has been passed this evening according to World Net Daily ... will go to the Senate next ...
Wow!