(CNSNews.com) - After 14 days without food or water, Terri Schiavo died around 9:50 Thursday morning - shortly after her parents issued an emotional plea to be at her hospice bedside in her final moments of life.
Terri’s husband and legal guardian, Michael Schiavo, denied the Schindler family’s final request to be with Terri as she […]

A lot of things having been bothering me about the judicial actions surrounding the Schiavo case. I just couldn’t imagine why Judge Greer would continue ruling in favor of Michael Schiavo or against the Schindler family so persistently even in cases which seem to fly in the face of all commonsense, moral scruples, and […]

Many people have wondered about Jesse Jackson joining the Schindler fight. The Schindler family actually invited him. I’m pretty sure that the parents knew that inviting Jesse would bring more media attention. I’m also sure they know he has a way of getting things done (I’m not sure how he does).
Many label […]

“The Federal Election Commission (FEC) issued proposed rules Thursday attempting to eliminate any restrictions on political blogging. The rules focus on paid online advertising and political e-mail instead.
FEC Commissioner Ellen Weintraub said the panel is still trying to determine whether a specific regulation exempting bloggers needs to be written, or if blogging would be protected […]

Governor Jeb Bush has said that he is out of options.

“I cannot violate a court order I don’t have powers from the United States Constitution or for that matter from the Florida Constitution that would allow me to intervene after a decision has been made,” he told CNN.
“That’s it.”
Protesters chanted “National Guard! National Guard!” and […]

There are many saying that Terri Schiavo’s Death by Starvation is painless. Hereis a description of what death by starvation feels like.

“The body attacks itself; fat, cartilage, muscle, all are sacrificed. The tongue swells and cracks, making swallowing difficult. The mouth dries out, becoming caked or coated with thick deposits. The mucous membranes in […]

11th Circuit Court Appeal Denied for Terri
PINELLAS PARK, Fla. -— After losing two consecutive appeals in federal court, Terri Schiavo’s parents vowed today to take their fight to the U.S. Supreme Court as their severely brain-damaged daughter began her fifth full day without the feeding tube that has kept her alive for more than a […]

According to O. Carter Snead, who is general counsel for the Council on Bioethics,
…The procedural irregularities that tainted the handling of Ms. Schiavo’s case include…:

The court’s failure to appoint a guardian ad litem (following 1998);
The court’s usurpation of the guardian’s role (in direct violation of Florida law);
The court’s reliance upon insufficient evidence regarding T. […]

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Suzanne and I continued to talk and joke with Terri for probably an hour or more. At one point Suzanne called Terri the bionic woman and I heard Terri laugh out loud heartily for the first time since I have been visiting with her. She laughed so hard that for the first time […]

A US company has carried out trials on a brain implant which offers quadriplegics the possibility of controlling a computer by mind-power alone. Although the first volunteer to use the Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems’ BrainGate has so far been able only to move an on-screen cursor, play the game Pong and transmit simple instructions to a […]

URGENT REQUEST FOR ACTION - Terri Schiavo is now over 91 hours without food and water.
- received via email from Cheryl Ford, RN at Fight4Terri@aol.com
A PRESS RELEASE ORGANIZED BY LOCAL SUPPORTERS OF TERRI SCHIAVO
A Call to Action - Terri Schiavo is now over 91 hours without food and water.
We the people of Florida and the […]

You’ve probably already heard that the feeding tube will not be reinserted for Terry Schiavo. She will continue to starve to death.
A certified nursing assistant who cared for Terri Schiavo in 1997 filed a sworn affidavit in the case stating that she was able to feed Schiavo normally on multiple occasions - but that […]

Poll: Most Think Congress Wrong on Schiavo Case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Americans broadly and strongly disapprove of the intervention by Congress in the case of Terri Schiavo and most believe lawmakers are using her case for political gain, according to an ABC News poll published on Monday.
Seventy percent deemed the congressional intervention inappropriate, while 67 percent […]

Two Views About the Morality of Euthanasia

The Libertarian View
The libertarian view is a minority position among current moral philosophers and theologians, but it nevertheless has a strong, articulate group of supporters. The clearest, most forceful statement of the view can be found in the writings of philosopher James Rachels In what follows, therefore, I will […]

When is Life Not Worth Living?
Joe Carter has an insightful post at Evangelical Outpost with that contains the following quote:

The enormous difficulty of trying to address these problems legislatively will continue for a long time. Likewise, the idea of gaining relief from our national burden by permitting the destruction of wholly worthless mentally dead persons […]

Interesting comparison at The American Thinker by Herb Meyer via an email from Donald Baker

There is a striking parallel between the Terri Schiavo and the Elian Gonzales cases:
In each case, the victim is under the legal control of a man who is no longer living with the victim, who in fact has run off with […]

Houses passes bill to allow federal review of Schiavo case

YEA
NAY
PRES
NV

Republican
156
5

71

Democratic
47
53

102

Independent

1

TOTALS *
203
58

174

Detailed House Roll Call: (Hat tip: PoliPundit)

The President will sign it in about a half hour.
A Judge will contact the Appeals court in Atlanta upon recieving a fax informing him that the bill has been signed.
Lawyers from both sides will file briefs in Atlanta.
Appeals […]

If you thought making people buy 2 airline tickets for 1 obese passenger was a hard sell, imagine convincing someone to buy 5 tickets for passengers who weigh nothing at all, who aren’t even there. That’s exactly what musician Edna Chizema convinced businesswoman Magrate Mapfumo to do for, . . . get this, 5 […]

When gun control laws get tight, law abiding citizens get creative and go retro
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Tighter gun ownership laws are pushing South Africans to buy crossbows, spears, swords, knives and pepper sprays to protect themselves from violent crime.
“We’ve had to build an entirely new shop because the demand from people is so great,” Justin […]

The US Senate today unanimously passed legislation aimed at prolonging the life of a brain-damaged woman, Terri Schiavo, in an extraordinary intervention by Congress to move the Florida case into the jurisdiction of federal courts.
President George W. Bush cut short a Texas vacation and flew back to Washington to sign the bill as soon as […]