Posted in Abortion, Culture, Education, Euthanasia on Oct 5th, 2009
Following their announcement of pro-life initiatives, the University of Notre Dame hosted speaker Bobby Schindler, brother of Terri Schiavo.
From the Terri Schindler Schiavo foundation press release:
Bobby Schindler has been invited to speak at The University of Notre Dame Law School as part of the Jus Vitae speaker’s series. The event will begin today, October 5, at [...]
Posted in Activism, Culture, Euthanasia, Health Care, Right to Life issues on Aug 29th, 2009
Those words from bioethicist Wesley J. Smith upon learning the news of the death of Robert Schindler Sr., father of Terri Schindler Schiavo. Schindler passed away overnight from apparent heart failure. But as we know, this wasn’t the first time his heart broke.
Schindler’s daughter, Terri, was subjected to a brutal 13 day starvation death via [...]
Posted in Culture, Euthanasia, Health Care, Law on Aug 10th, 2009
Proponents of the health care reform bill, mainly those on the liberal left, are accusing opponents of the bill with falsifying components of the proposed reform. It’s prompted even the White House to ask citizens to direct ‘fishy information’ or ‘disinformation’ to their attention. And in response the White House has launched a ‘reality check [...]
Posted in Abortion, Activism, Euthanasia, Government, Health Care, Right to Life issues on Jul 24th, 2009
Let’s just make sure the reform counts in all people.
Imagine a world where you can’t distinguish between having an abortion and getting your tonsils out. That’s what pro-abortion advocates want, and it’s what about to happen if Americans don’t exercise their voice with Congressional members.
Confusion is mounting over when the vote on the current bill [...]
Posted in Abortion, Bioethics, Culture, Euthanasia on May 6th, 2009
Ten years ago, this photo was captured in a pre-birth operation:
On Aug. 19, 1999, photographer Michael Clancy shot the “Fetal Hand Grasp” — his picture of a 21-week-old fetus grasping a doctor’s finger during innovative surgery to correct spina bifida. Nearly four months later, on Dec. 2, Samuel Armas was “born famous.”
The photo, which first [...]
Posted in Activism, Bioethics, Culture, Euthanasia, Health Care on Mar 31st, 2009
On this day, March 31, four years ago, Terri Schiavo died of dyhydration and starvation by order of the courts. Her family, who fought for the right to care for her, was devastated. And a nation stood divided and stunned by the atrocity that took place in Flordia.
Today, euthanasia and assisted suicide are rapidly and [...]
Posted in Culture, Euthanasia, Government, Law, Media, Society on Mar 5th, 2009
This afternoon on the Drew Mariani Show, on Relevant Radio, one of his guests was Dr. Mark Miravalle, and they were discussing assisted suicide, as Washington State’s new assisted suicide law takes effect tomorrow. A caller called in and shared her compelling story. At the age of 16 she received her first cancer diagnosis and [...]
Posted in Euthanasia, Health Care on Feb 9th, 2009
That is the question many are asking in the wake of Eluana Englaro’s death. I asked that very same question when I read the initial headline that she had passed. But there was only enough time to post the news of her passing. Now, after a little research, here is a plausible answer.
Although no cause [...]
Posted in Euthanasia, Society on Feb 9th, 2009
Eluana Englaro has died. Four days after the removal of her food and water.
As CNN reported, the Italian Senate, who convened to discuss an intervention to save her, paused for a moment of silence at the announcing of her passing.
This is heartbreaking. For Eluana, for Italy, and for the world.
In an interview for an Italian [...]
Posted in Euthanasia, Society on Feb 9th, 2009
Photo courtesy of APPROFONDISCI
ELUANA/ The plea to Beppino Englaro by Terri Schiavo’s fatherRedazione
lunedì 9 febbraio 2009Mr. Englaro,
Let me introduce myself. Iam Bob Schindler, Terri (Schindler) Schiavo’s father.
Although we come from two different continents with different cultures, we do have many things in common. We both are fathers and we both have been gifted by [...]