PRECIOUS YENLANG VO UPDATE!
hi leslie,
we had a meeting with the hospital on thurs 5/25/06.
after long discussion, dr. lyson who is internal
medicine physician who substituting for her colleague.
she stated that my mother infection that she needed
for time in the hospital to be treated. it was her
word that the hospital administration postponed my
mother date for withdraws. as soon as it was the
extension date was 7/17/2006, i could not say a word
but thanking the internist for her words and tears
were streaming down my face as i stepped out from the
meeting and went to my mom room to visit her.
she is more responsive more now as before. she opened
her eyes as i called her name as she was receiving the
dialysis.
it was not only thank to the internist, but all the
people who voice their opinions taking their time and
effort to call the north austin medical center, texas
that made this big difference. their protest is
successful causing the hospital to bulge and allow my
mother for further treatment.
i want thank you and all the volunteers and everyone
who has been praying for us. please continue pray for
us because we still needed and mother is not out of
the loop yet. we need all the prayers and continue
voicing your opinions by calling the hospital.
thank you so much. god bless.
loann trinh
Saturday, May 27, 2006
Friday, May 26, 2006
TOM TANCREDO FOR PRESIDENT!
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Friday, May 26, 2006
Tom Tancredo for president
Posted: May 26, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Joseph Farah
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
No to Condoleezza Rice.
No to John McCain.
No to Newt Gingrich.
No to Haley Barbour.
None of these Republican politicians will be able to stop Hillary Clinton in 2008 or solve the most pressing problems facing this country.
Naturally, some readers are asking me for an alternative.
I've thought about this a great deal.
Hillary Clinton will be the choice of the Democratic Party. She is a dangerous demagogue who could, as president for four years, complete the destruction of this country begun during the eight years her husband held office.
She must be stopped.
While I have no faith in the Republican Party, given its pitiful track record since grabbing the presidency and control of Congress, it probably represents the only chance to limit the damage the federal government is wreaking on our country every day.
My preference would be a new party. My preference would be to build an alternative to the Republican-Democratic political trap. But time is short. I don't see this happening in 2008.
Unless a person with charisma, money and convictions – someone like Mel Gibson – arose to the challenge of an independent bid for the presidency in 2008, like it or not, we will be faced with a choice between a Democrat and a Republican.
Therefore, freedom-loving, security-conscious Americans need to rally behind a Republican candidate of principle and courage – someone who will speak to the core issues facing us all today.
In my humble opinion, there is one man who fills that bill – Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado.
He's a maverick. He marches to the beat of his own drummer. He's not afraid to criticize members of his own party – including his president. And that's what I love about him.
There is no one else in Congress or in national public life who has provided better leadership on the No. 1 national-security issue confronting the United States – the border and immigration policy.
Tancredo's prescription isn't radical – though it might seem that way based on the reaction of the Big Media and establishment politicians in both parties. What Tancredo is advocating are common-sense principles being implemented in nations all over the world – including in supposedly "progressive" Europe.
You can read about his plan for turning America around in his new book, "In Mortal Danger – The Battle for America's Border and Security" – published by WND Books. You can encourage him to make the run by buying it. You can raise his visibility as a national spokesman by sharing it with your friends. You can make your voice heard in Washington and around the country by making it a best seller.
It's real simple. A nation without borders ceases to be a nation. That is the threat we face with as many as 20 million illegal aliens already here and more pouring over the border every day.
I believe this is such a hot-button issue with the American people that Tancredo, a distinguished but otherwise obscure member of the House of Representatives, could actually win.
But even if he doesn't win, it is imperative that the issues he raises get a national debate before 2008. The chickens have come home to roost. This issue I have been writing about for years is now on the front burner. Much of the credit belongs to Tancredo. He has done an admirable job winning over many colleagues in the House.
However, it may take a national political campaign to save this country from the looming disaster illegal immigration and open borders represent.
That's why I am urging Tom Tancredo to make the run. I simply don't know of any other candidate in a position to make the case effectively.
Will he do it?
We need to encourage Tom Tancredo to gear up, raise the money he needs to get his campaign going, start organizing. We need to let him know we will back him. And we need to mean it.
You may say, "Farah, it's only 2006. There's a mid-term congressional election this year. Why are you obsessing over the 2008 presidential race?" Because it takes planning to win. And I want America to win in 2008.
Tom Tancredo for president.
How do you like the sound of that?
Related offer:
Get Tom Tancredo's "In Mortal Danger" direct from the publisher – WND Books.
If you would like to sound off on this issue, participate in today's WND Poll.
Joseph Farah is founder, editor and CEO of WND and a nationally syndicated columnist with Creators Syndicate. His latest book is "Taking America Back." He also edits the weekly online intelligence newsletter Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin, in which he utilizes his sources developed over 30 years in the news business.
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Friday, May 26, 2006
Tom Tancredo for president
Posted: May 26, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Joseph Farah
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
No to Condoleezza Rice.
No to John McCain.
No to Newt Gingrich.
No to Haley Barbour.
None of these Republican politicians will be able to stop Hillary Clinton in 2008 or solve the most pressing problems facing this country.
Naturally, some readers are asking me for an alternative.
I've thought about this a great deal.
Hillary Clinton will be the choice of the Democratic Party. She is a dangerous demagogue who could, as president for four years, complete the destruction of this country begun during the eight years her husband held office.
She must be stopped.
While I have no faith in the Republican Party, given its pitiful track record since grabbing the presidency and control of Congress, it probably represents the only chance to limit the damage the federal government is wreaking on our country every day.
My preference would be a new party. My preference would be to build an alternative to the Republican-Democratic political trap. But time is short. I don't see this happening in 2008.
Unless a person with charisma, money and convictions – someone like Mel Gibson – arose to the challenge of an independent bid for the presidency in 2008, like it or not, we will be faced with a choice between a Democrat and a Republican.
Therefore, freedom-loving, security-conscious Americans need to rally behind a Republican candidate of principle and courage – someone who will speak to the core issues facing us all today.
In my humble opinion, there is one man who fills that bill – Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado.
He's a maverick. He marches to the beat of his own drummer. He's not afraid to criticize members of his own party – including his president. And that's what I love about him.
There is no one else in Congress or in national public life who has provided better leadership on the No. 1 national-security issue confronting the United States – the border and immigration policy.
Tancredo's prescription isn't radical – though it might seem that way based on the reaction of the Big Media and establishment politicians in both parties. What Tancredo is advocating are common-sense principles being implemented in nations all over the world – including in supposedly "progressive" Europe.
You can read about his plan for turning America around in his new book, "In Mortal Danger – The Battle for America's Border and Security" – published by WND Books. You can encourage him to make the run by buying it. You can raise his visibility as a national spokesman by sharing it with your friends. You can make your voice heard in Washington and around the country by making it a best seller.
It's real simple. A nation without borders ceases to be a nation. That is the threat we face with as many as 20 million illegal aliens already here and more pouring over the border every day.
I believe this is such a hot-button issue with the American people that Tancredo, a distinguished but otherwise obscure member of the House of Representatives, could actually win.
But even if he doesn't win, it is imperative that the issues he raises get a national debate before 2008. The chickens have come home to roost. This issue I have been writing about for years is now on the front burner. Much of the credit belongs to Tancredo. He has done an admirable job winning over many colleagues in the House.
However, it may take a national political campaign to save this country from the looming disaster illegal immigration and open borders represent.
That's why I am urging Tom Tancredo to make the run. I simply don't know of any other candidate in a position to make the case effectively.
Will he do it?
We need to encourage Tom Tancredo to gear up, raise the money he needs to get his campaign going, start organizing. We need to let him know we will back him. And we need to mean it.
You may say, "Farah, it's only 2006. There's a mid-term congressional election this year. Why are you obsessing over the 2008 presidential race?" Because it takes planning to win. And I want America to win in 2008.
Tom Tancredo for president.
How do you like the sound of that?
Related offer:
Get Tom Tancredo's "In Mortal Danger" direct from the publisher – WND Books.
If you would like to sound off on this issue, participate in today's WND Poll.
Joseph Farah is founder, editor and CEO of WND and a nationally syndicated columnist with Creators Syndicate. His latest book is "Taking America Back." He also edits the weekly online intelligence newsletter Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin, in which he utilizes his sources developed over 30 years in the news business.
OUR NEXT PRESIDENT?
Friends,
We need to be praying for Tom Tancredo.
"Please Lord, let this man rise to the occasion and lead our nation from the
destruction that is at hand!
Let him see the mantle that is logically his.
Give him your vision, wisdom and guidance as he contemplates all that it
will take to save America from the new world order.
Thank you father God for his commitment to borders, language, culture and
your Word which have made America the "city on a hill,"
for the past centuries.
In the mighty name of Jesus we pray,
Amen and Amen?
Friends,
We need to be praying for Tom Tancredo.
"Please Lord, let this man rise to the occasion and lead our nation from the
destruction that is at hand!
Let him see the mantle that is logically his.
Give him your vision, wisdom and guidance as he contemplates all that it
will take to save America from the new world order.
Thank you father God for his commitment to borders, language, culture and
your Word which have made America the "city on a hill,"
for the past centuries.
In the mighty name of Jesus we pray,
Amen and Amen?
Monday, May 22, 2006
COLORADO CONGRESSIONAL CANDIATE TAKES BLOOD MONEY FOR CAMPAIGN
Why not, she is the former sister in law of America's first abortion law sponsor:
DICK LAMM
5/21/06 Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The leading pro-abortion political group in the nation unveiled its roster of candidate for 2006 last week and paraded them in front of reporters at a Washington hotel in what was described as a political version of speed dating. The pro-abortion candidates have a huge hill to climb as their 2004 counterparts fared poorly at the ballot box.
At the luncheon, Emily's List told reporters about this year's slate of candidates -- all women and all Democrats as usual.
The organization is fielding its largest group of candidates in its 21 years history -- but that may be due to recent failures at the ballot box.
Through its members, the group donated $11 million to pro-abortion candidates in 2004 and raised more than $30 million to fund its own grassroots activities. But the money, which turned the group into the largest political donor that year, didn't transfer into success.
Emily's List managed to elect only 39% of the candidates it supported in 2004. The pro-abortion group outspent its pro-life counterpart, the Susan B. Anthony List, by an 8.5 to 1 margin, but 80 percent of the SBA-List endorsed candidates were winners.
However, candidates like New Mexico Attorney General Patricia Madrid, who is running for a seat in Congress, are hoping that this year's tenuous political climate will pave the way for greater success.
The Democratic Party is counting on Emily's List to deliver the goods as it attempts to take control of Congress away from the Republicans. Of the 24 House seats held by the GOP that are considered competitive by the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, Emily's List candidates are featured in 11 of them.
Still, the group will need to pull out a new playbook for 2006 as the 2004 elections weren't kind to abortion advocates.
"They won only one out of five senate races last election and they won only five out of 14 house seats and that year was a better year than the previous year for them," Concerned Women for America's Michael Bowman said about the group's 2004 election results.
SBA List candidates defeated six candidates endorsed by Emily's List during the last election cycle
"Our success rate shows that the pro-life issue is a winning issue," SBA List director Jennifer Bingham told LifeNews.com at the time.
Some of the pro-abortion candidate's Emily's List is backing this year include Peggy Lamm in Colorado, Maria Cantwell in Washington, Francine Busby in California, Lois Murphy in Pennsylvania, Amy Klobucher in Minnesota and Claire McCaskill in Missouri.
Related web sites:
Susan B. Anthony List - http://www.sba-list.org
Why not, she is the former sister in law of America's first abortion law sponsor:
DICK LAMM
5/21/06 Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The leading pro-abortion political group in the nation unveiled its roster of candidate for 2006 last week and paraded them in front of reporters at a Washington hotel in what was described as a political version of speed dating. The pro-abortion candidates have a huge hill to climb as their 2004 counterparts fared poorly at the ballot box.
At the luncheon, Emily's List told reporters about this year's slate of candidates -- all women and all Democrats as usual.
The organization is fielding its largest group of candidates in its 21 years history -- but that may be due to recent failures at the ballot box.
Through its members, the group donated $11 million to pro-abortion candidates in 2004 and raised more than $30 million to fund its own grassroots activities. But the money, which turned the group into the largest political donor that year, didn't transfer into success.
Emily's List managed to elect only 39% of the candidates it supported in 2004. The pro-abortion group outspent its pro-life counterpart, the Susan B. Anthony List, by an 8.5 to 1 margin, but 80 percent of the SBA-List endorsed candidates were winners.
However, candidates like New Mexico Attorney General Patricia Madrid, who is running for a seat in Congress, are hoping that this year's tenuous political climate will pave the way for greater success.
The Democratic Party is counting on Emily's List to deliver the goods as it attempts to take control of Congress away from the Republicans. Of the 24 House seats held by the GOP that are considered competitive by the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, Emily's List candidates are featured in 11 of them.
Still, the group will need to pull out a new playbook for 2006 as the 2004 elections weren't kind to abortion advocates.
"They won only one out of five senate races last election and they won only five out of 14 house seats and that year was a better year than the previous year for them," Concerned Women for America's Michael Bowman said about the group's 2004 election results.
SBA List candidates defeated six candidates endorsed by Emily's List during the last election cycle
"Our success rate shows that the pro-life issue is a winning issue," SBA List director Jennifer Bingham told LifeNews.com at the time.
Some of the pro-abortion candidate's Emily's List is backing this year include Peggy Lamm in Colorado, Maria Cantwell in Washington, Francine Busby in California, Lois Murphy in Pennsylvania, Amy Klobucher in Minnesota and Claire McCaskill in Missouri.
Related web sites:
Susan B. Anthony List - http://www.sba-list.org
Sunday, May 21, 2006
ANDREA CLARK'S SISTER MELANIE POSTS AT
DEMOCRATIC UNDERGROUND
My sister and I would like to continue to help on this
issue. Democrats and Republicans are united on this
one--on this issue, we are all "just Americans."
Wonderful, rich in heart and spirit, Americans. Let's
do battle for our brothers and sisters, together, on
this one, shall we?
Below is a post I made on Democratic Underground. It
is a place to continue this fight for life, I think.
One life at a time....
Dear Fellow DUers:
Some of you might remember me from my posts about my
sister, Andrea Clark. For those of you who don't, my
sister had heart disease and, under the Texas Futile
Care Law, the hospital she was in was trying to "pull
her plug." The hospital, St. Luke's Episcopal, in
Houston, Texas, finally backed down, by helping to get
another doctor on staff there, to consent to treat
Andrea. About a week later, my sister died. She died
with her family around her, and at her own natural
pace. My family had a fight on it's hands in order to
stop St. Luke's from killing Andrea, but both the
Democrats and the Republicans got together and helped
us.
Now that you've been brought up to speed, I have a few
other things to tell you about this subject: My
sister is not the only patient that a Texas hospital
is trying to kill. This happens all the time, but
most of the time it is not publicized. Most of the
time, a family, with their hands full just trying to
care for their loved one, is met by doctors who have
forgotten their oath to do no harm, and who pressure
the family to agree to withdraw treatment from the
patient. I am sure that most of these doctors truly
believe that what they are doing is "compassionate,"
but I believe, as many others do, that no one who does
not have a personal relationship with the patient
should step into the very personal position of making
these kinds of decisions for the patient, or for the
family. The right to die has been subverted, because
of this law, and because of the insurance companies'
and hospital corporations' love of money, to a DUTY to
die.
I submit to you, as well, that the people of this
country will not be able to take their country back
unless and until they come together, united in
purpose. There are many purposes that do not unite
us, but instead divide us. This is not one of those
wedge issues. This is an issue that can bring
Republicans and Democrats together. The more issues
of this kind that you find and that you unite to work
on, the louder all of our voices become; it is in this
uniting that we, the people of this country, will find
our strength.
DEMOCRATIC UNDERGROUND
My sister and I would like to continue to help on this
issue. Democrats and Republicans are united on this
one--on this issue, we are all "just Americans."
Wonderful, rich in heart and spirit, Americans. Let's
do battle for our brothers and sisters, together, on
this one, shall we?
Below is a post I made on Democratic Underground. It
is a place to continue this fight for life, I think.
One life at a time....
Dear Fellow DUers:
Some of you might remember me from my posts about my
sister, Andrea Clark. For those of you who don't, my
sister had heart disease and, under the Texas Futile
Care Law, the hospital she was in was trying to "pull
her plug." The hospital, St. Luke's Episcopal, in
Houston, Texas, finally backed down, by helping to get
another doctor on staff there, to consent to treat
Andrea. About a week later, my sister died. She died
with her family around her, and at her own natural
pace. My family had a fight on it's hands in order to
stop St. Luke's from killing Andrea, but both the
Democrats and the Republicans got together and helped
us.
Now that you've been brought up to speed, I have a few
other things to tell you about this subject: My
sister is not the only patient that a Texas hospital
is trying to kill. This happens all the time, but
most of the time it is not publicized. Most of the
time, a family, with their hands full just trying to
care for their loved one, is met by doctors who have
forgotten their oath to do no harm, and who pressure
the family to agree to withdraw treatment from the
patient. I am sure that most of these doctors truly
believe that what they are doing is "compassionate,"
but I believe, as many others do, that no one who does
not have a personal relationship with the patient
should step into the very personal position of making
these kinds of decisions for the patient, or for the
family. The right to die has been subverted, because
of this law, and because of the insurance companies'
and hospital corporations' love of money, to a DUTY to
die.
I submit to you, as well, that the people of this
country will not be able to take their country back
unless and until they come together, united in
purpose. There are many purposes that do not unite
us, but instead divide us. This is not one of those
wedge issues. This is an issue that can bring
Republicans and Democrats together. The more issues
of this kind that you find and that you unite to work
on, the louder all of our voices become; it is in this
uniting that we, the people of this country, will find
our strength.
Saturday, May 20, 2006
WHAT ABORTION DOES TO ONE'S SOUL
With gratitude to the author!
What Abortion Really Looks Like
Julie,
You have my total permission to re-print my story. If it helps stop any one from making this horrible mistake, or helps anyone who has made this mistake, I am all for it.
Hello whoever you are,
I guess I'm just reaching out to tell my story, or maybe get this off my chest, to warn other people. I am a " sinner, baby killer and whore". I was never told how much I would hurt after this. I was never told that I would re-live the event everyday. I was never told I could feel the life being sucked from my womb. They made it sound easy, simple, painless and made it sound all right.
It is regret. It is feeling dirty.
Had I known it would hurt so much emotionally. I would not have proceeded. Had some one told me, that this would be stuck with me forever. I would never have entered the clinic.
It has only been two days since my mistake.
Friday night my now ex boyfriend was arrested for domestic violence charges against me. He had hit me several times. I was six weeks pregnant. I was given council about what I could do and what not. I had spoken with a "friend" and she said " Get an abortion, you'll hate the kid forever"
Saturday morning I found myself outside of the planned parenthood facility. It was the day before mother's day. It was a fact that hit me moments before entering. There were many people trying to hand me literature. One with a rosary, one young lady yelled at me " It's ok, you can be a mother". Her words ran through me like electricity. It made the decision so much harder.
After being in the clinic for about two hours I was finally called in. I could not afford the anesthesia, so I was awake the entire procedure. They told me I would feel a little pressure. It felt as if someone was ripping me open. "You'll feel a little prick and numbness" I felt the needle, and still felt the pain. I screamed. I tried to hold the nurses hand, but she had pulled away. I felt every move that doctor made. I heard them vacuum the child from my womb. When it was all over, and too late, they just handed me a maxi pad and a damp cloth and walked out of the room. Having a bad reaction to the Novocain they injected into my cervix, cramping beyond no pain I've felt before, I put my clothes back on, silently. I was then escorted into a recovery room.
I was provided a pill that would shrink my cervix back to normal, and two extra strength Tylenol. Every other woman in the room was in shock. We laid there, heating pads over our stomachs, all regretting what we did. It was a common feeling in the air. Tears were shed. The nurses, they attempted to lighten the room. It made no difference. We killed our children. We gave into this horrible idea that it wasn't a person, that it was ok to murder.
I sit here today, incapable of going to work. I see people walking down the street, I know they have no way of knowing, but I still feel so awful.
If someone would of only gotten to me before I even was pregnant, before I even graduate high school. It would be different.
I wanted that child. It was never a mistake, a child is never a mistake. Getting rid of it was.
I wish I knew about your site before this.
posted by Silent Rain Drops @ 5:18 AM 0 comments
0 Comments:
With gratitude to the author!
What Abortion Really Looks Like
Julie,
You have my total permission to re-print my story. If it helps stop any one from making this horrible mistake, or helps anyone who has made this mistake, I am all for it.
Hello whoever you are,
I guess I'm just reaching out to tell my story, or maybe get this off my chest, to warn other people. I am a " sinner, baby killer and whore". I was never told how much I would hurt after this. I was never told that I would re-live the event everyday. I was never told I could feel the life being sucked from my womb. They made it sound easy, simple, painless and made it sound all right.
It is regret. It is feeling dirty.
Had I known it would hurt so much emotionally. I would not have proceeded. Had some one told me, that this would be stuck with me forever. I would never have entered the clinic.
It has only been two days since my mistake.
Friday night my now ex boyfriend was arrested for domestic violence charges against me. He had hit me several times. I was six weeks pregnant. I was given council about what I could do and what not. I had spoken with a "friend" and she said " Get an abortion, you'll hate the kid forever"
Saturday morning I found myself outside of the planned parenthood facility. It was the day before mother's day. It was a fact that hit me moments before entering. There were many people trying to hand me literature. One with a rosary, one young lady yelled at me " It's ok, you can be a mother". Her words ran through me like electricity. It made the decision so much harder.
After being in the clinic for about two hours I was finally called in. I could not afford the anesthesia, so I was awake the entire procedure. They told me I would feel a little pressure. It felt as if someone was ripping me open. "You'll feel a little prick and numbness" I felt the needle, and still felt the pain. I screamed. I tried to hold the nurses hand, but she had pulled away. I felt every move that doctor made. I heard them vacuum the child from my womb. When it was all over, and too late, they just handed me a maxi pad and a damp cloth and walked out of the room. Having a bad reaction to the Novocain they injected into my cervix, cramping beyond no pain I've felt before, I put my clothes back on, silently. I was then escorted into a recovery room.
I was provided a pill that would shrink my cervix back to normal, and two extra strength Tylenol. Every other woman in the room was in shock. We laid there, heating pads over our stomachs, all regretting what we did. It was a common feeling in the air. Tears were shed. The nurses, they attempted to lighten the room. It made no difference. We killed our children. We gave into this horrible idea that it wasn't a person, that it was ok to murder.
I sit here today, incapable of going to work. I see people walking down the street, I know they have no way of knowing, but I still feel so awful.
If someone would of only gotten to me before I even was pregnant, before I even graduate high school. It would be different.
I wanted that child. It was never a mistake, a child is never a mistake. Getting rid of it was.
I wish I knew about your site before this.
posted by Silent Rain Drops @ 5:18 AM 0 comments
0 Comments:
Friday, May 19, 2006
SEDATE, WAIT, INITIATE!
ANDREA CLARK'S SISTER, LANORE, AGREES!
Bioethicking death Protocol:
Leslie,
This is exactly what happened to Andrea. The night before they initiated the "pain management" program, Andrea told me, "I miss you." This, despite the fact she'd had a "devastating" bleed in her brain a couple of weeks before. Beginning the day the hospital began their pain management program, I lost more and more of my sister. The first week she was still communicating, though she was knocked out. Every week after, her communications grew more faint and more far between. By the last week, she seemed to be gone somewhere else, even though her pain meds had been cut considerably by her new doctor.
You're right. This is exactly what they do. Why is this not considered murder? If giving a patient an overdose of pain medication to cause death is unethical, which I was told by the chief ethicist at St. Luke's, that it is indeed unethical, then why is a slow overdose to cause death any more ethical? Is it more ethical because it's harder to prove? Is ethics just a matter of evidence?
Lanore Dixon
ANDREA CLARK'S SISTER, LANORE, AGREES!
Bioethicking death Protocol:
Leslie,
This is exactly what happened to Andrea. The night before they initiated the "pain management" program, Andrea told me, "I miss you." This, despite the fact she'd had a "devastating" bleed in her brain a couple of weeks before. Beginning the day the hospital began their pain management program, I lost more and more of my sister. The first week she was still communicating, though she was knocked out. Every week after, her communications grew more faint and more far between. By the last week, she seemed to be gone somewhere else, even though her pain meds had been cut considerably by her new doctor.
You're right. This is exactly what they do. Why is this not considered murder? If giving a patient an overdose of pain medication to cause death is unethical, which I was told by the chief ethicist at St. Luke's, that it is indeed unethical, then why is a slow overdose to cause death any more ethical? Is it more ethical because it's harder to prove? Is ethics just a matter of evidence?
Lanore Dixon
PRAY AND ACT TO SAVE KELLY MEYER
Prevent another Terri starvation!
"Thank you. I'll start on the e-mail now, and make a call first thing in the morning. Do you think it would also be a good idea to call MO Right to Life (573-635-5110)?"
Good. I think helping others is something Terri would have wanted us to do, and more importantly, God wants us to help others.
It wouldn't hurt to call MO RTL. They might have some suggestions.
To All: If there are any especially good knowledgeable talkers among us, please call Westchester House at 314-469-1200, and ask to speak with Kelly Meyer's family to tell them how tough it is to die by dehydration.
Prevent another Terri starvation!
"Thank you. I'll start on the e-mail now, and make a call first thing in the morning. Do you think it would also be a good idea to call MO Right to Life (573-635-5110)?"
Good. I think helping others is something Terri would have wanted us to do, and more importantly, God wants us to help others.
It wouldn't hurt to call MO RTL. They might have some suggestions.
To All: If there are any especially good knowledgeable talkers among us, please call Westchester House at 314-469-1200, and ask to speak with Kelly Meyer's family to tell them how tough it is to die by dehydration.
Thursday, May 18, 2006
PRAY FOR JOHN COSTA!
John Costa's Fight...
Sedate, Wait, and Initiate...
This is our personal and very good friend. In previous recent posts, I told what is happening to our closest friend's uncle. He is being killed in the usual way, off life support, attached to a drip tube which is steadily increasing, and helpless, too sedated to fight for his life, without a drop of nourishment, and dehydration.
Before his very recent accident, a blow to the head, he was robust, strong, healthy. Even after the accident, he was lucid, conscious. We would suppose most physicians to treat such an injury as serious but not with the radical invasive action the medical staff took. They insisted on sedating him heavily and a mishap occurred, a turn for the worse, apparently related to being sedated and being on blood thinner medication. Further mishaps included opening his trachea, resulting in infections and a high dose of antibiotics.
As we understand it, his insurance ran out. It appears the Hospital has no more use for him and has started their Exit Protocol. They use the usual now familiar platitudes and have pressured his wife into believing he is for all purposes dead. When they pulled the plug on him, however, he continued to survive and his supposedly shut down kidney started re-functioning. The "experts" consider him "brain dead" or PVS, and they moved him from decent quarters to a far more humble area where he gets minimum care. He is getting the usual Terri treatment, no liquids whatsoever, no food, no antibiotics, no help, only morphine and now Demerol in drip, steadily increasing. He has surprised family by his fight to survive, his attempts to communicate, although the doctors hastily explain any movement as reflex.
This causes a division in the family because the doctors have been successful in convincing the wife it is hopeless and to accept the fact he is dying. Other members are outraged because it is obvious to them he is being killed intentionally.
It must be his third day on the Protocol. I do not know if anything can be done to save Uncle Johnny, but this great hospital is dirtying its hands in euthanasia and needs to be put on notice. If anyone would be willing to pressure the hospital and their band of bioethicists, here is the contact info:
They are the Level 1 Trauma unit for this part of New England and associated with Brown Medical School, with a prestigious reputation.
Rhode Island Hospital
(Jane Brown Unit)
593 Eddy Street
Providence, RI 02903
401-444-4000
401-444-4521
President and CEO
Joseph Amaral, MD
Fred Macri
Executive
Vice President
and Chief
Operating Officer
Jane Metzger, RN, DNSc
Senior Vice President
and Chief Nursing
Officer
Boyd King, MD
Senior Vice President,
Medical Affairs
Louis Sperling
Vice President,
Human Resources
So far the only email is webteam@lifespan.org
Website: Rhode Island Hospital
Uncle Johnny is a Catholic and prayers would be appreciated.
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John Costa's Fight...
Sedate, Wait, and Initiate...
This is our personal and very good friend. In previous recent posts, I told what is happening to our closest friend's uncle. He is being killed in the usual way, off life support, attached to a drip tube which is steadily increasing, and helpless, too sedated to fight for his life, without a drop of nourishment, and dehydration.
Before his very recent accident, a blow to the head, he was robust, strong, healthy. Even after the accident, he was lucid, conscious. We would suppose most physicians to treat such an injury as serious but not with the radical invasive action the medical staff took. They insisted on sedating him heavily and a mishap occurred, a turn for the worse, apparently related to being sedated and being on blood thinner medication. Further mishaps included opening his trachea, resulting in infections and a high dose of antibiotics.
As we understand it, his insurance ran out. It appears the Hospital has no more use for him and has started their Exit Protocol. They use the usual now familiar platitudes and have pressured his wife into believing he is for all purposes dead. When they pulled the plug on him, however, he continued to survive and his supposedly shut down kidney started re-functioning. The "experts" consider him "brain dead" or PVS, and they moved him from decent quarters to a far more humble area where he gets minimum care. He is getting the usual Terri treatment, no liquids whatsoever, no food, no antibiotics, no help, only morphine and now Demerol in drip, steadily increasing. He has surprised family by his fight to survive, his attempts to communicate, although the doctors hastily explain any movement as reflex.
This causes a division in the family because the doctors have been successful in convincing the wife it is hopeless and to accept the fact he is dying. Other members are outraged because it is obvious to them he is being killed intentionally.
It must be his third day on the Protocol. I do not know if anything can be done to save Uncle Johnny, but this great hospital is dirtying its hands in euthanasia and needs to be put on notice. If anyone would be willing to pressure the hospital and their band of bioethicists, here is the contact info:
They are the Level 1 Trauma unit for this part of New England and associated with Brown Medical School, with a prestigious reputation.
Rhode Island Hospital
(Jane Brown Unit)
593 Eddy Street
Providence, RI 02903
401-444-4000
401-444-4521
President and CEO
Joseph Amaral, MD
Fred Macri
Executive
Vice President
and Chief
Operating Officer
Jane Metzger, RN, DNSc
Senior Vice President
and Chief Nursing
Officer
Boyd King, MD
Senior Vice President,
Medical Affairs
Louis Sperling
Vice President,
Human Resources
So far the only email is webteam@lifespan.org
Website: Rhode Island Hospital
Uncle Johnny is a Catholic and prayers would be appreciated.
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ANOTHER FORCED EXIT?
Too many to keep up with!
Rest of the story...
I told the first part of the story earlier of the good friend and uncle of our very close friends. He had fallen off a ladder, bumped his head, complained about it and some time later they called an ambulance. At the hospital, they said they had to put him under sedation and soon as they started, he nearly flat-lined. Then they opened his trachea and put in a tube which infected. Gave him lots of antibiotics and advised his wife he was brain dead and they should pull the tubes.
They said the cause was blood thinners which left his vessels in brain so weak they burst.
She followed whatever they insisted to her and agreed he should be let go since his organs shut down. So a couple days ago they pulled the plug, took him off ventilator, stopped feeding and all liquid.
When family remarked he could see and tried to look around, the doc said it was reflex, that his brain was gone.
To everyone's amazement, he didn't die, but the doc will ensure he can't survive. The doc said he was PVS so could not feel pain, but explained the need for morphine drip just in case.
In this case, it was not courts or rules of the hospital. The poor wife is in shock and acquiesced and the doctor bullied her into submission. After all, doctors are so educated and knowledgeable they must know best. That is how so many of us are conditioned.
We would be unable to convince the wife otherwise. She is devastated and trying to force it from her mind and not think of it. Our good friend will die as did Terri, most likely of dehydration.
Our close friends understand what happened as do we, but are unable to change this path.
We are praying for Uncle and hope others will too.
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Too many to keep up with!
Rest of the story...
I told the first part of the story earlier of the good friend and uncle of our very close friends. He had fallen off a ladder, bumped his head, complained about it and some time later they called an ambulance. At the hospital, they said they had to put him under sedation and soon as they started, he nearly flat-lined. Then they opened his trachea and put in a tube which infected. Gave him lots of antibiotics and advised his wife he was brain dead and they should pull the tubes.
They said the cause was blood thinners which left his vessels in brain so weak they burst.
She followed whatever they insisted to her and agreed he should be let go since his organs shut down. So a couple days ago they pulled the plug, took him off ventilator, stopped feeding and all liquid.
When family remarked he could see and tried to look around, the doc said it was reflex, that his brain was gone.
To everyone's amazement, he didn't die, but the doc will ensure he can't survive. The doc said he was PVS so could not feel pain, but explained the need for morphine drip just in case.
In this case, it was not courts or rules of the hospital. The poor wife is in shock and acquiesced and the doctor bullied her into submission. After all, doctors are so educated and knowledgeable they must know best. That is how so many of us are conditioned.
We would be unable to convince the wife otherwise. She is devastated and trying to force it from her mind and not think of it. Our good friend will die as did Terri, most likely of dehydration.
Our close friends understand what happened as do we, but are unable to change this path.
We are praying for Uncle and hope others will too.
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FLORIDUH VOTER'S BRILLIANT MOTTO
on Texas' Futile Care Law:
Drug anyone and they can appear to be in PVS. Whatever happened to the premise that people get ill and while in that state, they are usually over medicated and not as responsive. Being drugged by the very people who are abusing Texas' futile Futile Care law is why they are using the PVS lie.
Did you hear the horror stories I did about people who went into H. Woodside and a week later, they were much worse, completely incoherent and the lucky ones were pulled out of there by relatives who didn't believe the "no hope" lies.
DEATH CARE SYSTEM'S MOTTO: Sedate, wait and then initiate (the bioethicking).
on Texas' Futile Care Law:
Drug anyone and they can appear to be in PVS. Whatever happened to the premise that people get ill and while in that state, they are usually over medicated and not as responsive. Being drugged by the very people who are abusing Texas' futile Futile Care law is why they are using the PVS lie.
Did you hear the horror stories I did about people who went into H. Woodside and a week later, they were much worse, completely incoherent and the lucky ones were pulled out of there by relatives who didn't believe the "no hope" lies.
DEATH CARE SYSTEM'S MOTTO: Sedate, wait and then initiate (the bioethicking).
Monday, May 15, 2006
ANDREA CLARK'S SISTER'S UPDATE ON MS VO
I was in Austin this weekend and asked Jerri Ward (the lawyer who represented my sister, Andrea Clark, and who is also representing Mrs. Vo) if I could go see Mrs. Vo. She thought it was a good idea and she met me up there Sunday morning. We were escorted to Mrs. Vo's room by her husband, Mr. Tran.
Before I was allowed in the room, a nurse stopped us at the door and demanded to know who I was. I told her I was a friend of the family. She wanted to know what "kind" of friend I was. I told her I was an "important"
friend of the family. She said if I was media she couldn't let me in. This didn't seem right to me, but I didn't argue the point since I wasn't media. I assured her I was not media. We washed and gowned and went in to see Mrs. Vo. The nurse hovered in the room and about the door for most of the visit.
We weren't there five minutes and another hospital official along with a security guard came into the room and handed me a business card. She told me I'd have to call the administrator on the card and identify myself. Is it just
me or is this sounding Gestapo to you too? I asked her if she was telling me I couldn't visit the patient if unless I called this person. She started crabwalking a bit..."I'm just saying you are to call..." I demanded to know if she was telling me I couldn't visit the patient. Then the security guard interrupted and said he thought there was some kind of misunderstanding and he drew the woman back out into the hall to talk in low tones--after a few minutes they disappeared down the hall.
By this time I was fairly livid. I wanted to visit with Mrs. Vo and they kept interrupting. After another five minutes, here comes ANOTHER hospital official to verify that I was not
media. I don't know what's wrong with those people. Are they stupid or something? Are they calling me a liar? How many times do they have to be told I am not media? And even if I were, it's none of their business if the family wants me there! I mean, is Mrs. Vo a patient or a prisoner?
Mr. Tran loves his wife so much. The entire time we were there he rubbed her skin with oil, did range of motion exercises on her, cleaned her mouth, suctioned her mouth and vent. Oh...the nurse was mad about that...she was so rude.
Mrs. Vo is much healthier than Andrea. She's nice and fat and her skin is beautiful--not all broken down like Andrea's. She watches you with her eyes--despite the nurse telling us that "she can't track." Nonsense. She
probably is uncooperative with the hospital because she knows they don't care about her. She was "tracking" her husband, me, and Jerri just fine. The nurse got mad when Mr. Tran swabbed out his wife's mouth. The nurse
said, "I just did that." He ignored her and continued to care for his wife, so the nurse started complaining to us about it. Jerri asked the nurse if it would hurt if he cleaned out his wife's mouth. She hesitated, then she said, "Well, she doesn't like it." Sure enough, Mrs. Vo was making an ugly
face as her husband swabbed her mouth. Well, apparently, the patient has preferences about having her mouth cleaned. To me, this says she is responding to her environment. And even the nurse admitted that.
No one can convince me that Mr. Tran isn't experiencing a feeling of love as he cares for his wife or that Mrs. Vo isn't experiencing the feeling of being loved as he takes care of her. Those are the most exquisite of all human experiences--if Mrs. Vo still has access to the best of all human experiences, how can it be anything other than pure murder for them to remove her life support?
This is all becoming very surreal to me...how is it that hospitals seem to feel a sense of entitlement when it comes to killing off patients? How is it that they have so much resentment towards those who believe in a patient's right to life? Are they so comfortable with the God-like power attributed to them by the law and families that they become apoplectic at the very notion that someone might question their authority?
That kind of power is very dangerous to anyone who could possibly become a patient. Texas isn't the only state with medical futility laws. We all need to be fighting this battle.
Thanks for posting this,
Lanore Dixon
I was in Austin this weekend and asked Jerri Ward (the lawyer who represented my sister, Andrea Clark, and who is also representing Mrs. Vo) if I could go see Mrs. Vo. She thought it was a good idea and she met me up there Sunday morning. We were escorted to Mrs. Vo's room by her husband, Mr. Tran.
Before I was allowed in the room, a nurse stopped us at the door and demanded to know who I was. I told her I was a friend of the family. She wanted to know what "kind" of friend I was. I told her I was an "important"
friend of the family. She said if I was media she couldn't let me in. This didn't seem right to me, but I didn't argue the point since I wasn't media. I assured her I was not media. We washed and gowned and went in to see Mrs. Vo. The nurse hovered in the room and about the door for most of the visit.
We weren't there five minutes and another hospital official along with a security guard came into the room and handed me a business card. She told me I'd have to call the administrator on the card and identify myself. Is it just
me or is this sounding Gestapo to you too? I asked her if she was telling me I couldn't visit the patient if unless I called this person. She started crabwalking a bit..."I'm just saying you are to call..." I demanded to know if she was telling me I couldn't visit the patient. Then the security guard interrupted and said he thought there was some kind of misunderstanding and he drew the woman back out into the hall to talk in low tones--after a few minutes they disappeared down the hall.
By this time I was fairly livid. I wanted to visit with Mrs. Vo and they kept interrupting. After another five minutes, here comes ANOTHER hospital official to verify that I was not
media. I don't know what's wrong with those people. Are they stupid or something? Are they calling me a liar? How many times do they have to be told I am not media? And even if I were, it's none of their business if the family wants me there! I mean, is Mrs. Vo a patient or a prisoner?
Mr. Tran loves his wife so much. The entire time we were there he rubbed her skin with oil, did range of motion exercises on her, cleaned her mouth, suctioned her mouth and vent. Oh...the nurse was mad about that...she was so rude.
Mrs. Vo is much healthier than Andrea. She's nice and fat and her skin is beautiful--not all broken down like Andrea's. She watches you with her eyes--despite the nurse telling us that "she can't track." Nonsense. She
probably is uncooperative with the hospital because she knows they don't care about her. She was "tracking" her husband, me, and Jerri just fine. The nurse got mad when Mr. Tran swabbed out his wife's mouth. The nurse
said, "I just did that." He ignored her and continued to care for his wife, so the nurse started complaining to us about it. Jerri asked the nurse if it would hurt if he cleaned out his wife's mouth. She hesitated, then she said, "Well, she doesn't like it." Sure enough, Mrs. Vo was making an ugly
face as her husband swabbed her mouth. Well, apparently, the patient has preferences about having her mouth cleaned. To me, this says she is responding to her environment. And even the nurse admitted that.
No one can convince me that Mr. Tran isn't experiencing a feeling of love as he cares for his wife or that Mrs. Vo isn't experiencing the feeling of being loved as he takes care of her. Those are the most exquisite of all human experiences--if Mrs. Vo still has access to the best of all human experiences, how can it be anything other than pure murder for them to remove her life support?
This is all becoming very surreal to me...how is it that hospitals seem to feel a sense of entitlement when it comes to killing off patients? How is it that they have so much resentment towards those who believe in a patient's right to life? Are they so comfortable with the God-like power attributed to them by the law and families that they become apoplectic at the very notion that someone might question their authority?
That kind of power is very dangerous to anyone who could possibly become a patient. Texas isn't the only state with medical futility laws. We all need to be fighting this battle.
Thanks for posting this,
Lanore Dixon
Friday, May 12, 2006
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Wednesday October 4, 2000
Media Silent On Ru-486's Nazi Death Camp Pedigree
from http://www.newsmax.com
Oct. 2, 2000
Reprinted with permission
Lost in all the commentary on last week's FDA approval of the abortion pill RU-486 is an inconvenient and extraordinarily chilling detail about the company that invented the drug, Rousell-Uclaf.
Rousell, based in France, developed RU-486 in the 1980s, and after extensive testing the French government approved it for use in 1988. But Rousell's West German parent company, Hoechst AG, did not.
Hoechst had two problems with the idea of making easy abortions available to a mass market. Not only was abortion illegal in largely Catholic pre-unification West Germany, but RU-486 was sure to conjure up memories of the darkest chapter in German history - the Holocaust.
The chiefs at Hoechst AG, now one of the largest chemical companies in the world with over 145,000 employees, did not want their overseas customers to be reminded - or perhaps learn for the first time - about Hoescht's direct link to the National Socialist (Nazi) death camps of World War II.
Hoechst itself was born of the Nuremberg War Tribunal, which disbanded its precursor, the Nazi chemical giant IG Farben. The tribunal convicted twelve Farben executives of war atrocities, including "crimes against humanity, murder, extermination and enslavement."
Hoechst, Bayer and BASF became Farben's direct postwar corporate descendants.
Farbenworks factories at Hoechst, Degesch and Leverkusen worked overtime producing toxic gases for the Third Reich, including the deadly agent Zyklon B - the very poison that was used to exterminate millions in Hitler's gas chambers.
The Buna Rubber facility at Auschwitz was also part of Farbenworks' Nazi operations, which even included a special corporate concentration camp at the site known as Monowitz. But Monowitz was just one of several slave labor camps operated by Hoechst's corporate ancestor throughout the Nazi empire before Hitler's defeat in 1945.
No wonder today's pro-abortion journalists don't want to remind their readers about the connection between America's new abortion pill and the deadly history of the company that invented it.
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LifeSiteNews.com
Wednesday October 4, 2000
Media Silent On Ru-486's Nazi Death Camp Pedigree
from http://www.newsmax.com
Oct. 2, 2000
Reprinted with permission
Lost in all the commentary on last week's FDA approval of the abortion pill RU-486 is an inconvenient and extraordinarily chilling detail about the company that invented the drug, Rousell-Uclaf.
Rousell, based in France, developed RU-486 in the 1980s, and after extensive testing the French government approved it for use in 1988. But Rousell's West German parent company, Hoechst AG, did not.
Hoechst had two problems with the idea of making easy abortions available to a mass market. Not only was abortion illegal in largely Catholic pre-unification West Germany, but RU-486 was sure to conjure up memories of the darkest chapter in German history - the Holocaust.
The chiefs at Hoechst AG, now one of the largest chemical companies in the world with over 145,000 employees, did not want their overseas customers to be reminded - or perhaps learn for the first time - about Hoescht's direct link to the National Socialist (Nazi) death camps of World War II.
Hoechst itself was born of the Nuremberg War Tribunal, which disbanded its precursor, the Nazi chemical giant IG Farben. The tribunal convicted twelve Farben executives of war atrocities, including "crimes against humanity, murder, extermination and enslavement."
Hoechst, Bayer and BASF became Farben's direct postwar corporate descendants.
Farbenworks factories at Hoechst, Degesch and Leverkusen worked overtime producing toxic gases for the Third Reich, including the deadly agent Zyklon B - the very poison that was used to exterminate millions in Hitler's gas chambers.
The Buna Rubber facility at Auschwitz was also part of Farbenworks' Nazi operations, which even included a special corporate concentration camp at the site known as Monowitz. But Monowitz was just one of several slave labor camps operated by Hoechst's corporate ancestor throughout the Nazi empire before Hitler's defeat in 1945.
No wonder today's pro-abortion journalists don't want to remind their readers about the connection between America's new abortion pill and the deadly history of the company that invented it.
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Has the Abortion Pill been Pushed on America?
By David Brody
Capitol Hill Correspondent
CBN.com – WASHINGTON – Did the Clinton administration cross ethical lines in pushing for the approval of the RU-486 abortion pill?
Confidential memos uncovered by the watchdog group, Judicial Watch, show President Clinton and his staff took unprecedented steps to get the drug on the American market. Since its approval, the drug has been linked to the deaths of a number of women.
So far, it’s been on the market for six years. Now, doctors, relatives, and members of Congress want it banned after five questionable deaths and hundreds of injuries. All along, conservative groups have claimed short cuts in the approval process, and that the abortion pill was rushed onto the market.
"We've always been incredibly concerned about the way this drug was approved,” said Lanier Swann of Concerned Women for America. “It was put on the fast track, and that's actually putting it mildly."
The group Judicial Watch went straight to the source, obtaining more than 100 documents from the Clinton Presidential Library. What they found suggests Clinton himself helped get this drug into the hands of women here in America.
"You can read the documents for yourself. What they say flat out is that this is the equivalent of a pro-abortion jihad to bring this about,” Judicial Watch’s Christopher Farrell said.
RU-486 was developed in France, but the memos suggest the Clinton administration wanted it so badly in the U.S. that in his first official act as president, he sent a memo to his Health and Human Services secretary Donna Shalala saying this: "I direct that you promptly assess initiatives by which the department... can promote the testing, licensing, and manufacturing in the United States of RU-486."
"President Clinton put this pill on the fast track for approval to appease the abortion lobby," Swann added.
The drug's manufacturer and parent company had reservations about bringing RU-486 here. They didn't want to be held responsible for any financial lawsuits.
One memo shows how HHS Secretary Shalala and the FDA commissioner at the time, David Kessler, played a persuasive role. It said, "Both Dr. Kessler and I have taken steps to persuade Roussel, Uclaf and Hoechst to change their position."
In another memo, it appears Shalala even tried to get the companies governments involved saying, "The French and German governments might be displeased to learn that their companies are not accommodating a request made by the United States government."
"There's been this big lie that RU-486 was not a political decision or wasn't pressured through politically. That's a lie,” Farrell said. "This is not my opinion. These are Clinton administration documents. Read them for yourself."
These documents come a year after a CBN News investigation showed that the majority of members on the advisory committee that approved RU-486 had direct ties to the abortion industry. The FDA chairman at the time, David Kessler told us the committee process was fair.
"Let me assure you there was no agenda other than making sure that the very best science, that the best experts in the country look at the question,” Kessler said.
Senator Sam Brownback (R-Kansas) told us he's always been skeptical.
"You would hope that the FDA Drug approval process would not be a politicized one because people's health is at risk and yet it looks like it was in this case," Brownback said.
This issue is getting minimal traction on Capitol Hill. A bill that would pull RU-486 off the market has been around for years. There have also been several hearings, including one next week. But for the most part, the FDA has resisted calls to pull the drug.
However growing medical evidence is at least forcing the FDA to take another look. Meeting in Atlanta Thursday, they focused in on the deadly infections caused by the pill. Conservative groups hope that hearing will lead to some sort of action. They're not holding their breath.
"The question here has become how many women have to die before it’s enough?" Swann asked.
The Christian Broadcasting Network, Inc. © 2006
By David Brody
Capitol Hill Correspondent
CBN.com – WASHINGTON – Did the Clinton administration cross ethical lines in pushing for the approval of the RU-486 abortion pill?
Confidential memos uncovered by the watchdog group, Judicial Watch, show President Clinton and his staff took unprecedented steps to get the drug on the American market. Since its approval, the drug has been linked to the deaths of a number of women.
So far, it’s been on the market for six years. Now, doctors, relatives, and members of Congress want it banned after five questionable deaths and hundreds of injuries. All along, conservative groups have claimed short cuts in the approval process, and that the abortion pill was rushed onto the market.
"We've always been incredibly concerned about the way this drug was approved,” said Lanier Swann of Concerned Women for America. “It was put on the fast track, and that's actually putting it mildly."
The group Judicial Watch went straight to the source, obtaining more than 100 documents from the Clinton Presidential Library. What they found suggests Clinton himself helped get this drug into the hands of women here in America.
"You can read the documents for yourself. What they say flat out is that this is the equivalent of a pro-abortion jihad to bring this about,” Judicial Watch’s Christopher Farrell said.
RU-486 was developed in France, but the memos suggest the Clinton administration wanted it so badly in the U.S. that in his first official act as president, he sent a memo to his Health and Human Services secretary Donna Shalala saying this: "I direct that you promptly assess initiatives by which the department... can promote the testing, licensing, and manufacturing in the United States of RU-486."
"President Clinton put this pill on the fast track for approval to appease the abortion lobby," Swann added.
The drug's manufacturer and parent company had reservations about bringing RU-486 here. They didn't want to be held responsible for any financial lawsuits.
One memo shows how HHS Secretary Shalala and the FDA commissioner at the time, David Kessler, played a persuasive role. It said, "Both Dr. Kessler and I have taken steps to persuade Roussel, Uclaf and Hoechst to change their position."
In another memo, it appears Shalala even tried to get the companies governments involved saying, "The French and German governments might be displeased to learn that their companies are not accommodating a request made by the United States government."
"There's been this big lie that RU-486 was not a political decision or wasn't pressured through politically. That's a lie,” Farrell said. "This is not my opinion. These are Clinton administration documents. Read them for yourself."
These documents come a year after a CBN News investigation showed that the majority of members on the advisory committee that approved RU-486 had direct ties to the abortion industry. The FDA chairman at the time, David Kessler told us the committee process was fair.
"Let me assure you there was no agenda other than making sure that the very best science, that the best experts in the country look at the question,” Kessler said.
Senator Sam Brownback (R-Kansas) told us he's always been skeptical.
"You would hope that the FDA Drug approval process would not be a politicized one because people's health is at risk and yet it looks like it was in this case," Brownback said.
This issue is getting minimal traction on Capitol Hill. A bill that would pull RU-486 off the market has been around for years. There have also been several hearings, including one next week. But for the most part, the FDA has resisted calls to pull the drug.
However growing medical evidence is at least forcing the FDA to take another look. Meeting in Atlanta Thursday, they focused in on the deadly infections caused by the pill. Conservative groups hope that hearing will lead to some sort of action. They're not holding their breath.
"The question here has become how many women have to die before it’s enough?" Swann asked.
The Christian Broadcasting Network, Inc. © 2006
Thursday, May 11, 2006
Don't forget, you were once a former FETUS!
Fetus found in Rialto sewer plant
Associated Press
RIALTO, Calif. - A male fetus was found lodged in the filtering system of the city's wastewater treatment plant.
Tuesday morning's discovery led to the plant's closure and police were called. Authorities initially considered the discovery a homicide but a coroner's pathologist later determined the fetus was so small that it could not have survived outside the womb, police said.
"At this point, with the pathologist's determination, we are no longer considering this a criminal offense," said police Detective Kurt Kitterle.
Authorities believe the fetus was flushed into the sewage system because it was found in a bin that holds solid waste, Kitterle said. Most of the sewage that flows into the plant comes from Rialto, with small amounts generated in the nearby cities of Fontana and Bloomington, police said.
No autopsy is planned, Kitterle said.
Fetus found in Rialto sewer plant
Associated Press
RIALTO, Calif. - A male fetus was found lodged in the filtering system of the city's wastewater treatment plant.
Tuesday morning's discovery led to the plant's closure and police were called. Authorities initially considered the discovery a homicide but a coroner's pathologist later determined the fetus was so small that it could not have survived outside the womb, police said.
"At this point, with the pathologist's determination, we are no longer considering this a criminal offense," said police Detective Kurt Kitterle.
Authorities believe the fetus was flushed into the sewage system because it was found in a bin that holds solid waste, Kitterle said. Most of the sewage that flows into the plant comes from Rialto, with small amounts generated in the nearby cities of Fontana and Bloomington, police said.
No autopsy is planned, Kitterle said.
LAME HUMOR WON'T MASK ABORTION
INDUSTRY LIES ABOUT ABC LINK!
Dear Friends:
The National Breast Cancer Coalition (NBCC) has nominated the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer for a new "award." It's called the "Golden Boob Award."
Breast cancer is a serious issue; not one to be made light of. Possibly, a cancer group's use of the word, "boob," to refer to the breast will be especially offensive to breast cancer patients and survivors.
The Coalition has publicly challenged the NBCC to a debate on the abortion-cancer link. A public debate involving experts on both sides of the issue will permit women to decide for themselves who is telling the truth about the abortion-cancer link.
Action Item: Offer your comments to the NBCC.
Write to: National Breast Cancer Coalition,
1101 17th Street, NW,
Suite 1300,
Washington, D.C. 20036;
telephone (800) 622-2838 or (202) 296-7477;
fax (202) 265-6854.
E-mail: http://www.natlbcc.org/bin/wapps/feedback.asp?strid=26&depid=1&btnid=10
Sincerely,
Karen Malec
Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer
INDUSTRY LIES ABOUT ABC LINK!
Dear Friends:
The National Breast Cancer Coalition (NBCC) has nominated the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer for a new "award." It's called the "Golden Boob Award."
Breast cancer is a serious issue; not one to be made light of. Possibly, a cancer group's use of the word, "boob," to refer to the breast will be especially offensive to breast cancer patients and survivors.
The Coalition has publicly challenged the NBCC to a debate on the abortion-cancer link. A public debate involving experts on both sides of the issue will permit women to decide for themselves who is telling the truth about the abortion-cancer link.
Action Item: Offer your comments to the NBCC.
Write to: National Breast Cancer Coalition,
1101 17th Street, NW,
Suite 1300,
Washington, D.C. 20036;
telephone (800) 622-2838 or (202) 296-7477;
fax (202) 265-6854.
E-mail: http://www.natlbcc.org/bin/wapps/feedback.asp?strid=26&depid=1&btnid=10
Sincerely,
Karen Malec
Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Tuesday, May 09, 2006
WHY WOULD THE COLORADO LEGISLATURE PASS A RESOLUTION
HONORING PLANNED PARENTHOOD FOR THEIR 90 YEAR KILLING
SPREE? Ask your legislator how he or she voted.
Planned Parenthood's founder, Margaret Sanger, was a racist!!
"We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with
social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most
successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal.
We don't want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro
population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if
it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members."
Margaret Sanger
check out www.lifecommercials.com and view "Why"
HONORING PLANNED PARENTHOOD FOR THEIR 90 YEAR KILLING
SPREE? Ask your legislator how he or she voted.
Planned Parenthood's founder, Margaret Sanger, was a racist!!
"We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with
social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most
successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal.
We don't want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro
population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if
it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members."
Margaret Sanger
check out www.lifecommercials.com and view "Why"
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