Wednesday, February 23, 2005

The Hardest Question Ever

Dear Pro-Life Friend,
I’m taking the unusual step of emailing the entire pro-life blogs mailing list because of a critical situation that has developed in the case of Terri Schiavo.
Today, the courts rejected the pleas of Terri’s parents to stop her husband, Michael, from withholding food and water from her. He has promised to begin starving her tomorrow at 1 pm.
Most of you are aware that Terri is not a "vegetable" or "brain-dead" as Michael and his lawyers claim, but responds to others and is aware of her surroundings. She laughs, smiles and, according to her nurses, has a small vocabulary.
Terri is not on life support and is healthy. She needs help eating and is fed through a tube (helping someone eat and drink who is impaired has never been considered artificial life support).
While Michael asserts he is carrying out Terri's wishes, he waited until after he received a large sum of money from a lawsuit against her doctors before making this claim. During the lawsuit, he alleged negligence and motivated a financial award with the potential cost of Terri’s rehabilitation.
However, Terri has been denied rehabilitation that experts testify could allow her to eat and talk. The courts in Florida have consistently blocked appeals to give Terri proper tests and therapy that would improve her life.
Terri may not have the capabilities she once had, but she is no less valuable and no less a person.
Here is what you can do to help Terri:
1. Pray for Terri and her family.2. Blog - communicate the truth about what is going on and rally support for Terri and the Schindlers.3. Visit BlogsforTerri for information and to join the team of blogs for Terri.4. Deluge Gov. Jeb Bush with emails and phone calls. He has the power to intervene. Here is his contact information:
Governor Jeb Bushjeb.bush@myflorida.com850 / 488-4441850 / 487-0801 (fax)
5. Support HB701(click here). 6. Important - Bypass the Mainstream Media - pledge support a paid advertisement in the St. Petersburg Tribune to inform its 450,000 paid subscribers about what is really happening to Terri.
Your participation in help is desperately needed.
Thank-you for standing-up for Life.
Tim
prolifeblogs[at]gmail[dot]comhttp://www.prolifeblogs.com
P.S. I’ve set-up a special aggregator that displays only posts about Terri Schiavo. You can see what our 200+ members are saying here.
More Information at TerrisFight.org

I Saw this at another blog and it evoked such emotion from me I felt like I had to post it in case someone would somehow or another stray upon it. When we cheapen life to the point where someone else decides that they no longer want to bother taking care of you it is inherently wrong. Whatever happened to death do we part or am I only one of a handfull of people who still take my vows seriously. I am a fat guy and it would kill me to see my lovely wife starve to death because I was no longer willing to feed her GEEEEEEEEEEEEZE What the Hell is this man thinking?

1 comment:

Lee said...

one word...money