THE INCOMPARABLE REPRESENTATIVE HARVEY TELLS THE COLORADO HOUSE THAT GIANNA JESSEN SURVIVED
A LATE TERM SALINE ABORTION!
Monday, May 08, 2006
GIANNA JESSEN STUNS THE COLORADO HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES!!
Gianna sang the Star Spangled Banner and was introduced on the state house floor today and Rep Harvey explained that she had been a late term abortion
by Planned Parenthood.
There will be a resolution honoring the 90th anniversary of Planned Parenthood debated later today!
You could have heard a pin drop when Ted mentioned she had been aborted after the standing ovation they had given her for her song.
Ted's parting shot was "I just wanted to put a face on the celebration of PP"
He told about the late term abortion by saying "I'm Ted Harvey not Paul Harvey but I do want you to know the rest of Gianna's story!!"
Leslie Hanks
720-394-8946
Gianna stumbled on the words a bit and said she was so nervous but she got
her bearings back and carried on with the whole legislature joining her.
She had to lean on Ted as she sang due to her frailty from the CP.
What a moment!!!!!
I have photos to share.
Gianna sang the Star Spangled Banner and was introduced on the state house floor today and Rep Harvey explained that she had been a late term abortion
by Planned Parenthood.
There will be a resolution honoring the 90th anniversary of Planned Parenthood debated later today!
You could have heard a pin drop when Ted mentioned she had been aborted after the standing ovation they had given her for her song.
Ted's parting shot was "I just wanted to put a face on the celebration of PP"
He told about the late term abortion by saying "I'm Ted Harvey not Paul Harvey but I do want you to know the rest of Gianna's story!!"
Leslie Hanks
720-394-8946
Gianna stumbled on the words a bit and said she was so nervous but she got
her bearings back and carried on with the whole legislature joining her.
She had to lean on Ted as she sang due to her frailty from the CP.
What a moment!!!!!
I have photos to share.
Leslie,
Andrea passed away peacefully a little before 3pm
today, with her family and her friends at her bedside.
We love her so very much and we are going to miss her
terribly. We hope that the battle that we fought for
our sister will bring to light and bear witness to the
horrible acts committed in the name of ethics in
hospitals across the state of Texas.
The fact that we had to fight this battle is both
frightening and a sad commentary on the so-called
"ethics" now being practiced in medical facilities in
this state. The battle for life is a difficult one,
in the best of situations, but when a family is put
through what we had to go through at such a time, it
is especially agonizing.
We wish so much that we could have spent more time at
our sister's side, when she was living and fighting
for her life, rather than having to visit our
attorney's office, give interviews to radio and
television stations to let the public know of the
atrocity about to befall Andrea, and literally stand
outside the hospital and beg them not to kill our
sister. In attempting to deprive Andrea of the most
basic of her human rights--life--St. Luke's Hospital
managed to deprive her family and her of that which is
most dear to us all, when we are faced with the death
of a loved one: a proper goodbye.
How, in the name of God, anyone can call putting
someone to death when they are at their most helpless
and begging for their lives "ethical," we cannot
imagine.
Melanie Childers
Andrea passed away peacefully a little before 3pm
today, with her family and her friends at her bedside.
We love her so very much and we are going to miss her
terribly. We hope that the battle that we fought for
our sister will bring to light and bear witness to the
horrible acts committed in the name of ethics in
hospitals across the state of Texas.
The fact that we had to fight this battle is both
frightening and a sad commentary on the so-called
"ethics" now being practiced in medical facilities in
this state. The battle for life is a difficult one,
in the best of situations, but when a family is put
through what we had to go through at such a time, it
is especially agonizing.
We wish so much that we could have spent more time at
our sister's side, when she was living and fighting
for her life, rather than having to visit our
attorney's office, give interviews to radio and
television stations to let the public know of the
atrocity about to befall Andrea, and literally stand
outside the hospital and beg them not to kill our
sister. In attempting to deprive Andrea of the most
basic of her human rights--life--St. Luke's Hospital
managed to deprive her family and her of that which is
most dear to us all, when we are faced with the death
of a loved one: a proper goodbye.
How, in the name of God, anyone can call putting
someone to death when they are at their most helpless
and begging for their lives "ethical," we cannot
imagine.
Melanie Childers
Sunday, May 07, 2006
From the mighty prayer warrior Pegita (on Freerepublic)
Heavenly Father, we return to thank You that there is none other than You who holds the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind. Job 12:10. How we praise You, Merciful Father, that Your mercy has overshadowed all attempts to end Andrea's life ... that You have sent others to minister to her ... that You have brought her back from the brink.
How we cry out to You, O God, that You will again intervene for Andrea and her family, not because of merit, but because of mercy. May Your healing manifest itself in blood pressure that can be sustained without medicines ... in the total disappearance of any manifestation of infection ... in a return to a measure of health that will astound, and convict, those who sought to remove her from our midst. Give ear to our plea for a miracle, O God, to the everlasting Glory and Honor of Your Name. Grace Andrea's medical team with wisdom and skill from on high, that they might be instruments of Your healing.
Take pity upon the heart of Andrea's beloved sister ... have mercy upon each one who has whispered Andrea's precious name before the Throne of Grace ... set before an unbelieving world that Creator God walks among His people ... draw near, Blessed Savior, that Andrea might touch the hem of Your garment and be healed.
Let our hearts not be broken again as they were for our beloved Terri, but strengthen and encourage Your children to continually defy the Merchants of Death, in the Power and Strength of God Almighty.
Hear our prayer, O Lord ...
Hear our prayer, O Lord ...
Incline thine ear to us
And grant us thy peace. Amen ...
Heavenly Father, we return to thank You that there is none other than You who holds the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind. Job 12:10. How we praise You, Merciful Father, that Your mercy has overshadowed all attempts to end Andrea's life ... that You have sent others to minister to her ... that You have brought her back from the brink.
How we cry out to You, O God, that You will again intervene for Andrea and her family, not because of merit, but because of mercy. May Your healing manifest itself in blood pressure that can be sustained without medicines ... in the total disappearance of any manifestation of infection ... in a return to a measure of health that will astound, and convict, those who sought to remove her from our midst. Give ear to our plea for a miracle, O God, to the everlasting Glory and Honor of Your Name. Grace Andrea's medical team with wisdom and skill from on high, that they might be instruments of Your healing.
Take pity upon the heart of Andrea's beloved sister ... have mercy upon each one who has whispered Andrea's precious name before the Throne of Grace ... set before an unbelieving world that Creator God walks among His people ... draw near, Blessed Savior, that Andrea might touch the hem of Your garment and be healed.
Let our hearts not be broken again as they were for our beloved Terri, but strengthen and encourage Your children to continually defy the Merchants of Death, in the Power and Strength of God Almighty.
Hear our prayer, O Lord ...
Hear our prayer, O Lord ...
Incline thine ear to us
And grant us thy peace. Amen ...
Saturday, May 06, 2006
PRAYERS FOR ANDREA CLARK!!!
Leslie,
Andrea had her gall bladder drained yesterday and now
she seems to be getting worse. The doctor thought
that she had a block in her gall bladder, but found
nothing.
Since then, Andrea's white count, which is a signal of
infection, has increased and her blood pressure has
dropped so much that she has had to be put back on the
pressor medications that are so hard on the rest of
her organs.
Her doctor, Dr. Lentz, tells us that unless a miracle
happens, he doesn't expect Andrea to live more than a
few days now.
Please pray for Andrea. She needs all the help that
she can get to get through this.
Melanie Childers
Leslie,
Andrea had her gall bladder drained yesterday and now
she seems to be getting worse. The doctor thought
that she had a block in her gall bladder, but found
nothing.
Since then, Andrea's white count, which is a signal of
infection, has increased and her blood pressure has
dropped so much that she has had to be put back on the
pressor medications that are so hard on the rest of
her organs.
Her doctor, Dr. Lentz, tells us that unless a miracle
happens, he doesn't expect Andrea to live more than a
few days now.
Please pray for Andrea. She needs all the help that
she can get to get through this.
Melanie Childers
Friday, May 05, 2006
Tienemin Square Redux
China dissident Harry Wu, stood on Colorado’s State Capitol grounds challenging Governor Bill Owens and Chinese Prime Minister, Zhu Rongi’s trade fest inside nearly a decade ago. Last month, Wenyi Wang stood up to another, newer Chinese dictator at a recent Whitehouse ceremony, embarrassing President Bush.
Although Dr. Wang’s shouts to President Hu, that “his days are numbered,” were mostly portrayed by media outlets as the ranting of a madwoman, her courageous challenge may be viewed by historians as another shot heard round the world.
Wenyi Wang sought to alert the listening world to the horrific practice of killing prisoners for their organs sold to wealthy westerners. Specifically, she described the plight of practitioners of Falun Gong, a spiritual movement followed by thousands in China.
As Harry Wu had described earlier in Colorado, political dissidents of all stripes, are routinely executed for transplant tourism. Mr. Wu spent years in the Laogai, the Chinese equivalent of the Gulag, and hoped to educate America about
the plight of Chinese citizens who challenged the brutal Chinese regime.
Video of prisoners lined up in town square and shot in the head was so shocking and horrifying that most were paralyzed by their disbelief that such barbarism could exist in the 20th century. The medical vans wisking the organs to awaiting
recipients gave credence to the insanity of the claims, yet brought little to no action.
Last month, Dr. Wang shouted, “President Bush, stop him from persecuting Falun Gong and stop him from killing.”
Clearly embarrassed at this unexpected turn of events, the Bush administration had the good doctor removed and arrested.
Reverend Pat Mahoney noted that it is “outrageous that the U.S. would roll out the red carpet for a dictator known for crushing human rights while pursuing prison for a woman fighting to end religious persecution and violence.”
Wang sees her actions, not as criminal, but as civil disobedience. Charged with harassing a foreign official, she could possibly serve a federal prison sentence in the nation known around the world for protecting the free speech rights granted by God to her citizens.
Investor’s Business Daily marveled at Wenyi’s incredible timing, shouting her challenge at the moment President Bush was asking Hu Jintao to, “let the Chinese people speak freely!”
The outburst was broadcast by CNN, live but according to internet blogger, Matthew Sheffield, the network feed was, “disrupted for China viewers alone.”
Had their access to Dr. Wang’s outburst not been censored, they might have learned of her motives for shouting to President Hu. Wenyi explains, “I hope to immediately stop the crimes of organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners and rescue those facing the danger of live organ removal.”
When the Constitution Party of Colorado brought Harry Wu to speak truth to Governor Owens, few noted. Now Harry Wu has a valuable ally in the fight for human rights in China.
Noting that there are tens of thousands of Falun Gong practitioners missing, Wang explained, “When I saw President Bush shake Hu Jintao’s hand, I couldn’t help crying out.”
Dr. Wang went to a congressional hearing the day before the White House ceremony hoping to hear two of her peers testify about Falun Gong concerns. After they weren’t allowed to report on what they knew, Wenyi knew she had to act.
“I cried out for those Falun Gong practitioners, for those who have been or are about to be dissected alive for their organs. I cried out for those who have been tortured and suffered genocidal persecution,’ Wang exclaimed.
Wenyi Wang’s boldness ought to be emulated by America’s elected officials for shouting down a tyrant, while our president apologized for her behavior.
Like the lone man standing before the tank which ran him down, taking his life in Tieneman Square, Wenyi Wang once again demonstrated that the people will lead and the leaders will follow.
“The press reported on what I did at the White House but they didn’t report why I did it, which is key to the whole issue. America is America because of its respect for human rights. I think the massive removal of organs from living Falun Gong practitioners touches and challenges the conscience of each one of us. It is a challenge for humankind. Such crimes and sins should not be allowed to continue.”
“The heart is desperately wicked, who can know it?” Jeremiah 17:9
China dissident Harry Wu, stood on Colorado’s State Capitol grounds challenging Governor Bill Owens and Chinese Prime Minister, Zhu Rongi’s trade fest inside nearly a decade ago. Last month, Wenyi Wang stood up to another, newer Chinese dictator at a recent Whitehouse ceremony, embarrassing President Bush.
Although Dr. Wang’s shouts to President Hu, that “his days are numbered,” were mostly portrayed by media outlets as the ranting of a madwoman, her courageous challenge may be viewed by historians as another shot heard round the world.
Wenyi Wang sought to alert the listening world to the horrific practice of killing prisoners for their organs sold to wealthy westerners. Specifically, she described the plight of practitioners of Falun Gong, a spiritual movement followed by thousands in China.
As Harry Wu had described earlier in Colorado, political dissidents of all stripes, are routinely executed for transplant tourism. Mr. Wu spent years in the Laogai, the Chinese equivalent of the Gulag, and hoped to educate America about
the plight of Chinese citizens who challenged the brutal Chinese regime.
Video of prisoners lined up in town square and shot in the head was so shocking and horrifying that most were paralyzed by their disbelief that such barbarism could exist in the 20th century. The medical vans wisking the organs to awaiting
recipients gave credence to the insanity of the claims, yet brought little to no action.
Last month, Dr. Wang shouted, “President Bush, stop him from persecuting Falun Gong and stop him from killing.”
Clearly embarrassed at this unexpected turn of events, the Bush administration had the good doctor removed and arrested.
Reverend Pat Mahoney noted that it is “outrageous that the U.S. would roll out the red carpet for a dictator known for crushing human rights while pursuing prison for a woman fighting to end religious persecution and violence.”
Wang sees her actions, not as criminal, but as civil disobedience. Charged with harassing a foreign official, she could possibly serve a federal prison sentence in the nation known around the world for protecting the free speech rights granted by God to her citizens.
Investor’s Business Daily marveled at Wenyi’s incredible timing, shouting her challenge at the moment President Bush was asking Hu Jintao to, “let the Chinese people speak freely!”
The outburst was broadcast by CNN, live but according to internet blogger, Matthew Sheffield, the network feed was, “disrupted for China viewers alone.”
Had their access to Dr. Wang’s outburst not been censored, they might have learned of her motives for shouting to President Hu. Wenyi explains, “I hope to immediately stop the crimes of organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners and rescue those facing the danger of live organ removal.”
When the Constitution Party of Colorado brought Harry Wu to speak truth to Governor Owens, few noted. Now Harry Wu has a valuable ally in the fight for human rights in China.
Noting that there are tens of thousands of Falun Gong practitioners missing, Wang explained, “When I saw President Bush shake Hu Jintao’s hand, I couldn’t help crying out.”
Dr. Wang went to a congressional hearing the day before the White House ceremony hoping to hear two of her peers testify about Falun Gong concerns. After they weren’t allowed to report on what they knew, Wenyi knew she had to act.
“I cried out for those Falun Gong practitioners, for those who have been or are about to be dissected alive for their organs. I cried out for those who have been tortured and suffered genocidal persecution,’ Wang exclaimed.
Wenyi Wang’s boldness ought to be emulated by America’s elected officials for shouting down a tyrant, while our president apologized for her behavior.
Like the lone man standing before the tank which ran him down, taking his life in Tieneman Square, Wenyi Wang once again demonstrated that the people will lead and the leaders will follow.
“The press reported on what I did at the White House but they didn’t report why I did it, which is key to the whole issue. America is America because of its respect for human rights. I think the massive removal of organs from living Falun Gong practitioners touches and challenges the conscience of each one of us. It is a challenge for humankind. Such crimes and sins should not be allowed to continue.”
“The heart is desperately wicked, who can know it?” Jeremiah 17:9
Wednesday, May 03, 2006
ANDREW SAYS - TELL EM WHAT YOU THINK!!!
The (Texas House) Committee on Public Health
Legislative Session: 79(3)
Appointment Date: 01/27/2005
Clerk: Tom McCarty Phone: (512) 463-0806 Room: EXT E2.118
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/cgi-bin/db2www/tlo/committees/cmtembrs.d2w/report?LEG=79&SESS=3&CMTECODE=C410&CHAMBER=H&CTYPE=House
has an "interim study" in progress to "study" the Texas futile care
law. They plan hearings on the law for "sometime" this summer. No date
set.
The public may contribute to the "interim study" by voicing their
opinion in contributing materials to that committee.
We can:
a) Tell them today about how evil the futile care law is
via the lense of Andrea Clark
b) Insist that they hold hearings soon, put a date on the
calendar, and tell them we want the bill repealed.
The parallel committee in the Senate is:
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/cgi-bin/db2www/tlo/committees/cmtembrs.d2w/report?LEG=79&SESS=3&CMTECODE=C610&CHAMBER=S&CTYPE=Senate
Committee on Health & Human Services
Legislative Session: 79(3)
Appointment Date: 01/28/2005
Clerk: Kevin Jackson Phone: (512) 463-0360 Room: SHB 420
The (Texas House) Committee on Public Health
Legislative Session: 79(3)
Appointment Date: 01/27/2005
Clerk: Tom McCarty Phone: (512) 463-0806 Room: EXT E2.118
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/cgi-bin/db2www/tlo/committees/cmtembrs.d2w/report?LEG=79&SESS=3&CMTECODE=C410&CHAMBER=H&CTYPE=House
has an "interim study" in progress to "study" the Texas futile care
law. They plan hearings on the law for "sometime" this summer. No date
set.
The public may contribute to the "interim study" by voicing their
opinion in contributing materials to that committee.
We can:
a) Tell them today about how evil the futile care law is
via the lense of Andrea Clark
b) Insist that they hold hearings soon, put a date on the
calendar, and tell them we want the bill repealed.
The parallel committee in the Senate is:
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/cgi-bin/db2www/tlo/committees/cmtembrs.d2w/report?LEG=79&SESS=3&CMTECODE=C610&CHAMBER=S&CTYPE=Senate
Committee on Health & Human Services
Legislative Session: 79(3)
Appointment Date: 01/28/2005
Clerk: Kevin Jackson Phone: (512) 463-0360 Room: SHB 420
Tuesday, May 02, 2006
ANDREW LONGMAN TO DR. BEVERLY NUCKOLS CLAIM
THAT "TEXAS FUTILE CARE ACT" DOESN'T EXIST!!
columns@andrewlongman.com
Reasonable, Procedural, Justifiable
The reasonable and cogent doctor presents an entirely reasonable and
normative tone in her article "Texas Futile Care Act doesn't exist".
It is reassuring, level, seemingly decent and persuasive that nothing
is deeply wrong.
Unfortunately, this is like the bromides uttered by an MSNBC reporter
after meeting with Sadaam Hussein outside his palace.
The naivete and commitment to the party line is obvious and, indeed,
why not? Don't we all wish that the system and the doctors were
reasonable people, doing reasonable things, carefully following
thoughtful precept with dignity? And so the good doctor intones the
expectation of educated human beings: these doctors are not at all
monsters, they are just doing a reasonable effort towards making
reasonable things work. Sounds great except for the fact that this
is perpendicular to the facts in Andrea Clark's case.
It doesn't matter that the word "futile" isn't mentioned in the law.
It matters that the board considers people futile. It doesn't limit
the activity of monstrous doctors that some conscientious doctors
might not give CPR to someone whose chest would be crushed by it. It
is irrelevant that TADA allegedly doesn't give power to consider the
"quality of life" in determining whether to kill a living patient.
It matters only that now, post-TADA, doctors do it. It does not matter
that doctors and nurses we know wouldn't preclude taking in a patient
whom another hospital had rejected - nurses don't make those decisions,
administrators talking to insurance companies do. It does not matter
that the author thinks a "conspiracy" is necessary to get all the
hospitals in Houston, of which there are heaps within a stone's throw,
a literal stone's throw, of St. Luke's, to deny care; it happened and
it was easy and whatever the heck you call it, it's endemic,
institutional.
It doesn't matter that nice words are written in nice procedures.
It matters that when you give doctors power to kill people, they do it
and they ignore moral truth.
But what does matter can be seen in this, "Much more likely is that the
medical judgements of one doctor and ethics committee are trusted to be
valid by the other hospitals and that the other facilities would reach
the same conclusion..." and in it we can see how the "conspiracy" is
easily maintained: doctors have come to think that doctors are god.
I remember when Grandma was cantankerous. Uncle Bob would tell us that
all we had to do was get a doctor to say it and then in Granny's mind it
became law. Her devotion was cute. But doctors' devotion to the
principle that, since God is not legally in the room then they must be
god themselves, has reached a pandemic scale. The irrational gifts that
society has been bestowing on them - the ability to decide the life and
death of the innocent - is rushing so fast to their head they are in a
perpetual state of red out; blood blinds their consciousness.
And our friend writing says it well: one demi-god believes another.
When one says "she must die" they all defer. It was the same idiocy
with the legal cabal in Florida when Greer murdered Terri Schiavo slow:
Greer ruled "she must die" so we, the bar, all believed. After all, is
he not an infallible like unto us?
Indeed, conspiracies are easily sustained by collusion. They are
all sunk to the same music and unaware of a world outside their own
judgement. And that is why it is especially wicked for another doctor
or hospital not to review it. Such turns the decisions of the MD class
not into matters of science, but into matters of spiritist utterance.
Science is a matter of constant cross-examination, questioning, and
objective verification. Death sentences unchallenged are rites of human
sacrifice. Any doctor asked who wouldn't object and want to review
Andrea's case is a criminal-priest, not a scientist.
It is really amusing that the writer goes on to say that it just
isn't necessary to transfer Andrea to a hospital where they don't want
to murder her even a little bit. After all, the writer notes, if
another hospital can be found, the first hospital loses all legal right
to murder her. In light of the fact that the writer has just told us
that, due to professional deference, it is virtually assured that all
other hospitals are going to conclude the same as the first one, we
have to wonder what her goal is? All other hospitals will say she's
futile, there's no need to move her to another hospital because this
first hospital will protect her if another can be found, and no other
hospitals will be found because they will all agree with the first one.
So in asserting she doesn't need to be moved, the writer asserts there
is no reason to save her life because the judgement has been
professional.
But the self-referent madness spills out of this narrative. This doctor
who is writing, like all the others, are about, exclusively, preserving
the purview of authority for their profession and defending all
arbitrary increases of that authority. The new breed of doctors gets
high on the fact that, in a secularised society, they are the new
demi-gods, the ones with power over life and death of the innocent. So
here we have someone trying to protect this power. How distasteful.
The closing clause is highly indicative of this self-worship, this
concept that "we doctors are the only intelligent source of consequence
in the room". On discovering that Andrea reverses course, fails to
die, fails to allow herself to be killed, the doctor writes, "I would
sure want to reevaluate my earlier decision and celebrate if the care
given by myself and my colleagues had been more successful than we
predicted." The care from ME and MY COLLEAGUES! Ha! It had
NOTHING to do with ANDREA'S FIGHTING SPIRIT or GOD'S SOVEREIGN DECISION
eh? Of course maybe the doctor reflects on those as quaint
afterthoughts but certainly not as a matter of FIRST CONSEQUENCE.
The maxim holds: doctors are gods. All else is psychology. And note
that the only reason for reevaluating a decision to kill a woman is
that the woman accidentally recovers. Reevaluation has nothing to do,
again, with the fact that ANDREA WANTS TO LIVE AND HER FAMILY WANTS HER
TO LIVE AND HER FAMILY BELIEVED SHE COULD RECOVER. It's all "me"
focused: I believed I will reevaluate My diagnosis so I can learn
something and I will be surprised about how My treatment worked.
It used to be that medicine was patient focused. Now its all about
the free religious expression of doctors. And their religion is them.
Ultimately what all this does is attack society. A small and then
growing number of doctors will arbitrarily kill people. This will lead
to it becoming institutional. People will inevitably protest, slam the
doctors, just as I am now doing. The good doctors will protest, the
bad ones act offended. A natural split between doctor and patient will
grow until we are like the Netherlands: armed guards sitting at the foot
of the bed to defend the patient against the hospital staff. In time
this will result in open violence: a family member who has seen their
loved one murdered and who has no legal recourse will satisfy justice
via the vigilante. And this is the loss and break down of society.
We are seeing the similar loss of confidence in the judiciary.
All of this can be corrected and avoided by simply returning to
normative medical and judicial ethics. "Do no harm" is an excellent
place to start. In other words, doc, you care for them till the bitter
end and you let God be God - as though he knows when to take
one of his creatures home. We destroy our very fabric of social order
when we legally require doctors to abandon the Hippocratic oath. We
assault the institutions of government when judges or legislators may
decree that the innocent must be killed.
I would much rather hear this doctor issue a level, thoughtful, educated
review of how giving the power to murder to a physician is evil and
leads to social rupture and medical incompetence. Indeed, what does a
healer say about a healer who has turned to committed killing? What does
it lead to more and better of, healing or killing?
Killing.
THAT "TEXAS FUTILE CARE ACT" DOESN'T EXIST!!
columns@andrewlongman.com
Reasonable, Procedural, Justifiable
The reasonable and cogent doctor presents an entirely reasonable and
normative tone in her article "Texas Futile Care Act doesn't exist".
It is reassuring, level, seemingly decent and persuasive that nothing
is deeply wrong.
Unfortunately, this is like the bromides uttered by an MSNBC reporter
after meeting with Sadaam Hussein outside his palace.
The naivete and commitment to the party line is obvious and, indeed,
why not? Don't we all wish that the system and the doctors were
reasonable people, doing reasonable things, carefully following
thoughtful precept with dignity? And so the good doctor intones the
expectation of educated human beings: these doctors are not at all
monsters, they are just doing a reasonable effort towards making
reasonable things work. Sounds great except for the fact that this
is perpendicular to the facts in Andrea Clark's case.
It doesn't matter that the word "futile" isn't mentioned in the law.
It matters that the board considers people futile. It doesn't limit
the activity of monstrous doctors that some conscientious doctors
might not give CPR to someone whose chest would be crushed by it. It
is irrelevant that TADA allegedly doesn't give power to consider the
"quality of life" in determining whether to kill a living patient.
It matters only that now, post-TADA, doctors do it. It does not matter
that doctors and nurses we know wouldn't preclude taking in a patient
whom another hospital had rejected - nurses don't make those decisions,
administrators talking to insurance companies do. It does not matter
that the author thinks a "conspiracy" is necessary to get all the
hospitals in Houston, of which there are heaps within a stone's throw,
a literal stone's throw, of St. Luke's, to deny care; it happened and
it was easy and whatever the heck you call it, it's endemic,
institutional.
It doesn't matter that nice words are written in nice procedures.
It matters that when you give doctors power to kill people, they do it
and they ignore moral truth.
But what does matter can be seen in this, "Much more likely is that the
medical judgements of one doctor and ethics committee are trusted to be
valid by the other hospitals and that the other facilities would reach
the same conclusion..." and in it we can see how the "conspiracy" is
easily maintained: doctors have come to think that doctors are god.
I remember when Grandma was cantankerous. Uncle Bob would tell us that
all we had to do was get a doctor to say it and then in Granny's mind it
became law. Her devotion was cute. But doctors' devotion to the
principle that, since God is not legally in the room then they must be
god themselves, has reached a pandemic scale. The irrational gifts that
society has been bestowing on them - the ability to decide the life and
death of the innocent - is rushing so fast to their head they are in a
perpetual state of red out; blood blinds their consciousness.
And our friend writing says it well: one demi-god believes another.
When one says "she must die" they all defer. It was the same idiocy
with the legal cabal in Florida when Greer murdered Terri Schiavo slow:
Greer ruled "she must die" so we, the bar, all believed. After all, is
he not an infallible like unto us?
Indeed, conspiracies are easily sustained by collusion. They are
all sunk to the same music and unaware of a world outside their own
judgement. And that is why it is especially wicked for another doctor
or hospital not to review it. Such turns the decisions of the MD class
not into matters of science, but into matters of spiritist utterance.
Science is a matter of constant cross-examination, questioning, and
objective verification. Death sentences unchallenged are rites of human
sacrifice. Any doctor asked who wouldn't object and want to review
Andrea's case is a criminal-priest, not a scientist.
It is really amusing that the writer goes on to say that it just
isn't necessary to transfer Andrea to a hospital where they don't want
to murder her even a little bit. After all, the writer notes, if
another hospital can be found, the first hospital loses all legal right
to murder her. In light of the fact that the writer has just told us
that, due to professional deference, it is virtually assured that all
other hospitals are going to conclude the same as the first one, we
have to wonder what her goal is? All other hospitals will say she's
futile, there's no need to move her to another hospital because this
first hospital will protect her if another can be found, and no other
hospitals will be found because they will all agree with the first one.
So in asserting she doesn't need to be moved, the writer asserts there
is no reason to save her life because the judgement has been
professional.
But the self-referent madness spills out of this narrative. This doctor
who is writing, like all the others, are about, exclusively, preserving
the purview of authority for their profession and defending all
arbitrary increases of that authority. The new breed of doctors gets
high on the fact that, in a secularised society, they are the new
demi-gods, the ones with power over life and death of the innocent. So
here we have someone trying to protect this power. How distasteful.
The closing clause is highly indicative of this self-worship, this
concept that "we doctors are the only intelligent source of consequence
in the room". On discovering that Andrea reverses course, fails to
die, fails to allow herself to be killed, the doctor writes, "I would
sure want to reevaluate my earlier decision and celebrate if the care
given by myself and my colleagues had been more successful than we
predicted." The care from ME and MY COLLEAGUES! Ha! It had
NOTHING to do with ANDREA'S FIGHTING SPIRIT or GOD'S SOVEREIGN DECISION
eh? Of course maybe the doctor reflects on those as quaint
afterthoughts but certainly not as a matter of FIRST CONSEQUENCE.
The maxim holds: doctors are gods. All else is psychology. And note
that the only reason for reevaluating a decision to kill a woman is
that the woman accidentally recovers. Reevaluation has nothing to do,
again, with the fact that ANDREA WANTS TO LIVE AND HER FAMILY WANTS HER
TO LIVE AND HER FAMILY BELIEVED SHE COULD RECOVER. It's all "me"
focused: I believed I will reevaluate My diagnosis so I can learn
something and I will be surprised about how My treatment worked.
It used to be that medicine was patient focused. Now its all about
the free religious expression of doctors. And their religion is them.
Ultimately what all this does is attack society. A small and then
growing number of doctors will arbitrarily kill people. This will lead
to it becoming institutional. People will inevitably protest, slam the
doctors, just as I am now doing. The good doctors will protest, the
bad ones act offended. A natural split between doctor and patient will
grow until we are like the Netherlands: armed guards sitting at the foot
of the bed to defend the patient against the hospital staff. In time
this will result in open violence: a family member who has seen their
loved one murdered and who has no legal recourse will satisfy justice
via the vigilante. And this is the loss and break down of society.
We are seeing the similar loss of confidence in the judiciary.
All of this can be corrected and avoided by simply returning to
normative medical and judicial ethics. "Do no harm" is an excellent
place to start. In other words, doc, you care for them till the bitter
end and you let God be God - as though he knows when to take
one of his creatures home. We destroy our very fabric of social order
when we legally require doctors to abandon the Hippocratic oath. We
assault the institutions of government when judges or legislators may
decree that the innocent must be killed.
I would much rather hear this doctor issue a level, thoughtful, educated
review of how giving the power to murder to a physician is evil and
leads to social rupture and medical incompetence. Indeed, what does a
healer say about a healer who has turned to committed killing? What does
it lead to more and better of, healing or killing?
Killing.
FROM ANDREA'S SISTER LANORE DIXON
"The millions of prayers that have been offered on Andrea's behalf have yielded joyful results! We are delighted to report that St. Luke's hospital has decided to do the right thing and has dropped the futility process that was looming over Andrea's life. A new doctor has taken over her care and is working with a dedicated team of specialists to help Andrea get well. She still has very serious health problems and is facing gallbladder surgery possibly as soon as tomorrow.
Please keep Andrea in your prayers and know that your prayers, calls, emails and letters helped save her life. The family is grateful for all you have done."
Lanore Dixon,
Sister of Andrea Clark
"The millions of prayers that have been offered on Andrea's behalf have yielded joyful results! We are delighted to report that St. Luke's hospital has decided to do the right thing and has dropped the futility process that was looming over Andrea's life. A new doctor has taken over her care and is working with a dedicated team of specialists to help Andrea get well. She still has very serious health problems and is facing gallbladder surgery possibly as soon as tomorrow.
Please keep Andrea in your prayers and know that your prayers, calls, emails and letters helped save her life. The family is grateful for all you have done."
Lanore Dixon,
Sister of Andrea Clark
MY PRAYER FOR ANDREA CLARK!!
Praise God for this good report!!!!!!!!
I'd still feel better if she was able to be cared
for elsewhere, but this sounds like progress.
Any idea whether the radio show generated
any extra pressure today?
Father God, we praise you for you are Andrea's
ultimate healer.
We thank you for all who have risen to the challenge
to ensure that dear Andrea receives the care she
deserves.
We pray for her continued improvement, that she
might be able to shout your name from the rooftops
and be a mighty voice for a return to sanity in
American
medicine.
Lord use this precious one for your Glory!!
Might she be used by you to renew the mission
of hospitals to that of giving, caring and restoring
instead of neglecting and killing!
In Jesus name,
Amen and Amen
Praise God for this good report!!!!!!!!
I'd still feel better if she was able to be cared
for elsewhere, but this sounds like progress.
Any idea whether the radio show generated
any extra pressure today?
Father God, we praise you for you are Andrea's
ultimate healer.
We thank you for all who have risen to the challenge
to ensure that dear Andrea receives the care she
deserves.
We pray for her continued improvement, that she
might be able to shout your name from the rooftops
and be a mighty voice for a return to sanity in
American
medicine.
Lord use this precious one for your Glory!!
Might she be used by you to renew the mission
of hospitals to that of giving, caring and restoring
instead of neglecting and killing!
In Jesus name,
Amen and Amen
ANDREA'S SISTER IN RESPONSE TO MY PRAYER
Andrea made history when she was five years old and
was one of the first patients to be operated on using
the heart-lung machine. She might very well make
history again by testifying before the Texas
legislature about how she would have been dead had
this law been followed to the letter.
Andrea is one mean little girl when she's well. I
wouldn't want to be in Dr. Ron Giveon or Dr. Richard
Carpenter aka the abortionist's shoes, if she walks
out of that hospital on her own two feet. Nope, that
will not be a pretty picture for them, I can tell you
that much.
Melanie Childers
Andrea made history when she was five years old and
was one of the first patients to be operated on using
the heart-lung machine. She might very well make
history again by testifying before the Texas
legislature about how she would have been dead had
this law been followed to the letter.
Andrea is one mean little girl when she's well. I
wouldn't want to be in Dr. Ron Giveon or Dr. Richard
Carpenter aka the abortionist's shoes, if she walks
out of that hospital on her own two feet. Nope, that
will not be a pretty picture for them, I can tell you
that much.
Melanie Childers
Monday, May 01, 2006
My release on North Country Gazette
Andrea Clark's life hangs in the balance in Houston, Texas as her hospital, St. Luke's, is preparing to remove medical care from her Tuesday, based upon the "ethics" committee opinion that treatment is "futile care" in her case.
Although Andrea Clark has good insurance, the Texas futile care law states that "If either the family does not seek an extension or the judge fails to grant one, futile treatment may be unilaterally withdrawn by the treatment team with immunity from civil or criminal prosecution. [2]"
Is anyone safe in a hospital anymore when the law protects the facility from civil and criminal prosecution for deciding that a person is no longer worthy of living?
Richard Carpenter Jr. should be immediately disqualified from being able to even comment on a matter involving ethics, having spent years terminating the lives of innocent pre-born babies.
Clark's sister, Lanore Dixon, exclaimed, "St. Luke's has agreed not to pull Andrea's life support at least until Tuesday. On Tuesday, a committee of doctors from St. Luke's will meet to discuss how to proceed with Andrea's case. Andrea's new doctor-a doctor who shares our values about the sacredness of life-will take over her care on Tuesday and will fight for her right to live. Let us all hope and pray that the committee meeting on Tuesday is chaired by doctors who have a reverence for life and not a former abortionist like the St. Luke's ethics committee chair.
Our nation is routinely ending innocent lives, like Terri Schindler Schiavo, even when entire families agree completely that they want their loved ones to live.
No abortionist, should even be allowed to sit in on an ethics committee hearing, let alone chair one.
Leslie Hanks
Vice President
Colorado Right To Life
Andrea Clark's life hangs in the balance in Houston, Texas as her hospital, St. Luke's, is preparing to remove medical care from her Tuesday, based upon the "ethics" committee opinion that treatment is "futile care" in her case.
Although Andrea Clark has good insurance, the Texas futile care law states that "If either the family does not seek an extension or the judge fails to grant one, futile treatment may be unilaterally withdrawn by the treatment team with immunity from civil or criminal prosecution. [2]"
Is anyone safe in a hospital anymore when the law protects the facility from civil and criminal prosecution for deciding that a person is no longer worthy of living?
Richard Carpenter Jr. should be immediately disqualified from being able to even comment on a matter involving ethics, having spent years terminating the lives of innocent pre-born babies.
Clark's sister, Lanore Dixon, exclaimed, "St. Luke's has agreed not to pull Andrea's life support at least until Tuesday. On Tuesday, a committee of doctors from St. Luke's will meet to discuss how to proceed with Andrea's case. Andrea's new doctor-a doctor who shares our values about the sacredness of life-will take over her care on Tuesday and will fight for her right to live. Let us all hope and pray that the committee meeting on Tuesday is chaired by doctors who have a reverence for life and not a former abortionist like the St. Luke's ethics committee chair.
Our nation is routinely ending innocent lives, like Terri Schindler Schiavo, even when entire families agree completely that they want their loved ones to live.
No abortionist, should even be allowed to sit in on an ethics committee hearing, let alone chair one.
Leslie Hanks
Vice President
Colorado Right To Life
Saturday, April 29, 2006
ST. LUKE'S ETHICS CHAIR FORMER ABORTIONIST!?!?!?!?!?
ACCORDING TO ANDREA'S SISTER LANORE, YES!
GET ANDREA TO A SAFE HOUSE!!!
This afternoon, twenty minutes before Andrea was due to be transported by ambulance to the airport, her doctor (or rather, the one filling in for her doctor who has gone on vacation this week–how VERY convenient!) came into her room and informed me she would not be transferred to the Chicago facility after all. After questioning the doctor I learned that someone messed up–I don’t know which end the foul up occurred, but this all goes to show the danger of being forced to choose a healthcare facility due to pressure of an ethics committee ruling… This so called LTAC was nothing more than a nursing home with dialysis machine in the basement. They had no ability to administer the medications Andrea requires.
Somehow, the blogosphere knew about the inadequacy of the LTAC before either the family or the hospital did–probably due to me posting the new mailing address where Andrea can recieve cards and letters. Don’t use the Illinois address, folks!
While we’re grateful that St. Luke’s halted the transfer before Andrea was moved, I cannot tell you the stress this has put on our family. We are exhausted from this effort, but we will continue to fight for our sister.
St. Luke’s has agreed not to pull Andrea’s life support at least until Tuesday. On Tuesday, a committee of doctors from St. Luke’s will meet to discuss how to proceed with Andrea’s case. Andrea’s new doctor–a doctor who shares our values about the sacredness of life–will take over her care on Tuesday and will fight for her right to live. Let us all hope and pray that the committee meeting on Tuesday is chaired by doctors who have a reverence for life and not a "former abortionist" like the St. Luke’s ethics committee chair.
Please pass this info on. I’m sending it to a few prolife blogs, but I’m using the computer in patient services and don’t have much time.
Thanks, Lanore Dixon
ACCORDING TO ANDREA'S SISTER LANORE, YES!
GET ANDREA TO A SAFE HOUSE!!!
This afternoon, twenty minutes before Andrea was due to be transported by ambulance to the airport, her doctor (or rather, the one filling in for her doctor who has gone on vacation this week–how VERY convenient!) came into her room and informed me she would not be transferred to the Chicago facility after all. After questioning the doctor I learned that someone messed up–I don’t know which end the foul up occurred, but this all goes to show the danger of being forced to choose a healthcare facility due to pressure of an ethics committee ruling… This so called LTAC was nothing more than a nursing home with dialysis machine in the basement. They had no ability to administer the medications Andrea requires.
Somehow, the blogosphere knew about the inadequacy of the LTAC before either the family or the hospital did–probably due to me posting the new mailing address where Andrea can recieve cards and letters. Don’t use the Illinois address, folks!
While we’re grateful that St. Luke’s halted the transfer before Andrea was moved, I cannot tell you the stress this has put on our family. We are exhausted from this effort, but we will continue to fight for our sister.
St. Luke’s has agreed not to pull Andrea’s life support at least until Tuesday. On Tuesday, a committee of doctors from St. Luke’s will meet to discuss how to proceed with Andrea’s case. Andrea’s new doctor–a doctor who shares our values about the sacredness of life–will take over her care on Tuesday and will fight for her right to live. Let us all hope and pray that the committee meeting on Tuesday is chaired by doctors who have a reverence for life and not a "former abortionist" like the St. Luke’s ethics committee chair.
Please pass this info on. I’m sending it to a few prolife blogs, but I’m using the computer in patient services and don’t have much time.
Thanks, Lanore Dixon
Friday, April 28, 2006
ANDREA CLARK'S EMOTIONAL ROLLER COASTER RIDE!!!
Leslie,
I just got more information on this:
The hospital in Chicago, which St. Luke's suggested
that Andrea be transported to, has no facilities that
have the required equipment to meet Andrea's needs.
Seems like St. Luke's should have known this before
contacting them, in the first place, but who knows
what's going on in their heads?
We are trying to get, but have received no guarantee
that St. Luke's will not pull life support on Andrea
on Sunday.
We are in tears here. We were willing to make the
sacrifice to pull up stakes here and go to a strange
city, to save our sister's life. Now we just don't
know what to do. It seems like we're back to square
one.
Melanie
Leslie,
I just got more information on this:
The hospital in Chicago, which St. Luke's suggested
that Andrea be transported to, has no facilities that
have the required equipment to meet Andrea's needs.
Seems like St. Luke's should have known this before
contacting them, in the first place, but who knows
what's going on in their heads?
We are trying to get, but have received no guarantee
that St. Luke's will not pull life support on Andrea
on Sunday.
We are in tears here. We were willing to make the
sacrifice to pull up stakes here and go to a strange
city, to save our sister's life. Now we just don't
know what to do. It seems like we're back to square
one.
Melanie
SOME GOOD NEWS FOR ANDREA CLARK!!!
RIGHT AND LEFT WORK TOGETHER FOR LIFE, Praise the Lord!
Edited on Fri Apr-28-06 01:46 AM by Th1onein
Dear Fellow DUers:
Some of you might remember my posting on DU about my sister, Andrea Clark, for whom St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital in Houston was threatening to terminate care. Andrea would have died had St. Luke's been successful. Because of DU and others, Andrea is now being transferred to a facility in Chicago, Illinois. They have no futile care law in Chicago, so Andrea will be okay there.
Andrea is now showing some signs of improvement, although slight. She has endocarditis, which takes about four months, at best, to resolve itself. It's going to be a long road back for her, if she makes it, but I want to thank the mods here and Skinner, for helping us to get the word out.
I have to tell you, too, that the right to life people were with us on this all the way. And we never made a secret of the fact that we were Democrats, either. They are an absolutely formidable force. I don't know what we would have done without them. They pinned St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital to the wall with calls, emails, blogs, radio interviews, etc. St. Luke's is so utterly happy to get my sister out of that hospital ALIVE, if it weren't so tragic, it would be almost comical.
Anyway, just wanted to let you know that this had a happy outcome, and express our family's thanks for your help.
(And Carina (KnitterforDemocracy) a special thank you for all of your kind and generous support. You are absolutely wonderful.)
RIGHT AND LEFT WORK TOGETHER FOR LIFE, Praise the Lord!
Edited on Fri Apr-28-06 01:46 AM by Th1onein
Dear Fellow DUers:
Some of you might remember my posting on DU about my sister, Andrea Clark, for whom St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital in Houston was threatening to terminate care. Andrea would have died had St. Luke's been successful. Because of DU and others, Andrea is now being transferred to a facility in Chicago, Illinois. They have no futile care law in Chicago, so Andrea will be okay there.
Andrea is now showing some signs of improvement, although slight. She has endocarditis, which takes about four months, at best, to resolve itself. It's going to be a long road back for her, if she makes it, but I want to thank the mods here and Skinner, for helping us to get the word out.
I have to tell you, too, that the right to life people were with us on this all the way. And we never made a secret of the fact that we were Democrats, either. They are an absolutely formidable force. I don't know what we would have done without them. They pinned St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital to the wall with calls, emails, blogs, radio interviews, etc. St. Luke's is so utterly happy to get my sister out of that hospital ALIVE, if it weren't so tragic, it would be almost comical.
Anyway, just wanted to let you know that this had a happy outcome, and express our family's thanks for your help.
(And Carina (KnitterforDemocracy) a special thank you for all of your kind and generous support. You are absolutely wonderful.)
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
TO ENCOURAGE ANDREA CLARK!!!
Just spoke to sister, Melanie Childers, who is about to send me
names of the individuals foisting the death agenda on Andrea.
The family is fighting mad and readying for a lawsuit if anything
happens to their sister.
They are still attempting to find a doctor who will transfer her to a facility
that isn't in cahoots - tough assignment.
Social worker, Pat Bissonnett is still causing them distress and pain and
is of no help.
For those who wish to send get well greetings to Andrea to encourage her to
keep fighting, go to www.carepages.com - click on visits - click on
andreaclarklives
The family is interested in the Avalon facility in San Antonio but doubt whether Andrea could make the long haul there from Houston.
I suggested one of the aviation services that transport critical care
patients. I'm trying to find one called Angel Flight.
I told Melanie to let us know if they need to have another protest this
weekend.
When Andrea's care is removed on April 30, that will be catastrophic, since
she is on a ventilator.
Keep praying that it doesn't come to that.
Meleanie said to let you know that the hospital is getting "banged by the
right to lifers!!"
Praise God!
2,356 posted on 04/26/2006 5:16:37 PM MDT by Lesforlife ("For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb . . ." Psalm 139:13)
TO REGISTER A COMPLAINT WITH THE HOSPITAL OVER WITHDRAWING ANDREA CLARK'S MEDICAL TREATMENT -
CALL 832-355-1000 and ask for the public affairs officer.
Just spoke to sister, Melanie Childers, who is about to send me
names of the individuals foisting the death agenda on Andrea.
The family is fighting mad and readying for a lawsuit if anything
happens to their sister.
They are still attempting to find a doctor who will transfer her to a facility
that isn't in cahoots - tough assignment.
Social worker, Pat Bissonnett is still causing them distress and pain and
is of no help.
For those who wish to send get well greetings to Andrea to encourage her to
keep fighting, go to www.carepages.com - click on visits - click on
andreaclarklives
The family is interested in the Avalon facility in San Antonio but doubt whether Andrea could make the long haul there from Houston.
I suggested one of the aviation services that transport critical care
patients. I'm trying to find one called Angel Flight.
I told Melanie to let us know if they need to have another protest this
weekend.
When Andrea's care is removed on April 30, that will be catastrophic, since
she is on a ventilator.
Keep praying that it doesn't come to that.
Meleanie said to let you know that the hospital is getting "banged by the
right to lifers!!"
Praise God!
2,356 posted on 04/26/2006 5:16:37 PM MDT by Lesforlife ("For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb . . ." Psalm 139:13)
TO REGISTER A COMPLAINT WITH THE HOSPITAL OVER WITHDRAWING ANDREA CLARK'S MEDICAL TREATMENT -
CALL 832-355-1000 and ask for the public affairs officer.
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
ANOTHER ANDREA CLARK UPDATE
Ok,
I spoke to Melanie as well as Ms Muse - the public affairs
person for the hospital. Ms. Muse told me that the family
hasn't granted permission for her to speak. I told her that
I planned to call Melanie and even was planning to come to
Houston.
Life support is to be removed on April 30, without some
major shift in things.
I suggested they search for another hospital - seems as tho
all Houston hospitals are going to deny her care but I think
some outlying might grant it.
Andrea is on dialysis every few days as well as a respirator, so they
can't take her home.
Social worker, Pat Bissonnett told the family that Andrea told her
she wanted to die. Even the docs in the room looked at their
shoes, since everyone knew she was lying. Andrea pushes the social
worker away whenever she approaches.
An Episcopal priest Father Fronig has told the family that Andrea wants
to die. They reject the social worker and the priest's assessment.
Geri Ward, their attorney, is advocating strongly for Andrea.
At last weekend's protest, they had around 12-15. Most had lost family
members at Houston's St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital due to similar circumstances, having been told
that their loved one wanted to die.
We really need to step it up several notches.
Andrea has a heart ailment from birth, but now has enocarditis.
Melanie believes if they can cure that with antibiotics, she
will be able to get off the respirator.
Please pass along any ideas you have on how else we might
lend our talents to this woman's plight and keep praying.
She is very communicative when they don't over medicate her!!
Melanie said she was asking for a Whataburger. Then when word
about something like that gets out, they turn up the meds to
make her uncommunicative.
For life,
Leslie Hanks
Ok,
I spoke to Melanie as well as Ms Muse - the public affairs
person for the hospital. Ms. Muse told me that the family
hasn't granted permission for her to speak. I told her that
I planned to call Melanie and even was planning to come to
Houston.
Life support is to be removed on April 30, without some
major shift in things.
I suggested they search for another hospital - seems as tho
all Houston hospitals are going to deny her care but I think
some outlying might grant it.
Andrea is on dialysis every few days as well as a respirator, so they
can't take her home.
Social worker, Pat Bissonnett told the family that Andrea told her
she wanted to die. Even the docs in the room looked at their
shoes, since everyone knew she was lying. Andrea pushes the social
worker away whenever she approaches.
An Episcopal priest Father Fronig has told the family that Andrea wants
to die. They reject the social worker and the priest's assessment.
Geri Ward, their attorney, is advocating strongly for Andrea.
At last weekend's protest, they had around 12-15. Most had lost family
members at Houston's St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital due to similar circumstances, having been told
that their loved one wanted to die.
We really need to step it up several notches.
Andrea has a heart ailment from birth, but now has enocarditis.
Melanie believes if they can cure that with antibiotics, she
will be able to get off the respirator.
Please pass along any ideas you have on how else we might
lend our talents to this woman's plight and keep praying.
She is very communicative when they don't over medicate her!!
Melanie said she was asking for a Whataburger. Then when word
about something like that gets out, they turn up the meds to
make her uncommunicative.
For life,
Leslie Hanks
Monday, April 24, 2006
Colorado Mourns 39th Anniversary of America's First Abortion Law
To: National & State Desks
Contact: Leslie Hanks, Colorado Right to Life V.P., 720-394-8946
DENVER, April 24 /Christian Wire Service/ -- One of America's oldest pro-life organizations, Colorado Right to Life (CRLC), mourns the loss of the millions of innocent babies killed in their mother's womb, since the passage of the nation's first abortion law signed on April 25, 1967. "Our nation is owed an apology for our state's role in starting the abortion holocaust," said Diane Hochevar, CRLC President.
The organization applauds South Dakota for passing the first law restoring legal protection to pre-born babies. "As the state that started the abortion holocaust, we should have been the first to lead America back to protecting all human life, from fertilization through natural death," said Colorado Right to Life V.P., Leslie Hanks. "South Dakota citizens should be very proud of their elected officials."
Former Governor Dick Lamm, who as a freshman representative, sponsored the Colorado law in 1967. Not content with orchestrating the attack on the vulnerable pre-born, Lamm expanded his ideology to include the elderly and medically vulnerable with his "duty to die" speech a number of years ago.
"As America begins to ponder the significant loss of love and talent our nation has discarded as medical waste, it should remember that when Colorado made the tragic error of allowing pre-born lives to be destroyed through abortion we began a culture of death which has led to all human life being greatly devalued, " said Hanks.
CRLC maintains that Terri Schiavo and others like her might not have been in such jeopardy had Colorado rejected the taking of innocent life for cases of rape, incest and the mother's health back in 1967. "When babies aren't safe in their mother's wombs, we are all in danger." notes Hanks.
Colorado Right to Life will continue its efforts to build a culture of life in its home state and encourages every state to follow the lead set by South Dakota. "We must reject the taking of innocent life and embrace our founding documents," said Hochevar. "The Declaration of Independence boldly proclaims that 'We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.'"
To: National & State Desks
Contact: Leslie Hanks, Colorado Right to Life V.P., 720-394-8946
DENVER, April 24 /Christian Wire Service/ -- One of America's oldest pro-life organizations, Colorado Right to Life (CRLC), mourns the loss of the millions of innocent babies killed in their mother's womb, since the passage of the nation's first abortion law signed on April 25, 1967. "Our nation is owed an apology for our state's role in starting the abortion holocaust," said Diane Hochevar, CRLC President.
The organization applauds South Dakota for passing the first law restoring legal protection to pre-born babies. "As the state that started the abortion holocaust, we should have been the first to lead America back to protecting all human life, from fertilization through natural death," said Colorado Right to Life V.P., Leslie Hanks. "South Dakota citizens should be very proud of their elected officials."
Former Governor Dick Lamm, who as a freshman representative, sponsored the Colorado law in 1967. Not content with orchestrating the attack on the vulnerable pre-born, Lamm expanded his ideology to include the elderly and medically vulnerable with his "duty to die" speech a number of years ago.
"As America begins to ponder the significant loss of love and talent our nation has discarded as medical waste, it should remember that when Colorado made the tragic error of allowing pre-born lives to be destroyed through abortion we began a culture of death which has led to all human life being greatly devalued, " said Hanks.
CRLC maintains that Terri Schiavo and others like her might not have been in such jeopardy had Colorado rejected the taking of innocent life for cases of rape, incest and the mother's health back in 1967. "When babies aren't safe in their mother's wombs, we are all in danger." notes Hanks.
Colorado Right to Life will continue its efforts to build a culture of life in its home state and encourages every state to follow the lead set by South Dakota. "We must reject the taking of innocent life and embrace our founding documents," said Hochevar. "The Declaration of Independence boldly proclaims that 'We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.'"
Colorado Mourns 39th Anniversary of America's First Abortion Law
To: National & State Desks
Contact: Leslie Hanks, Colorado Right to Life V.P., 720-394-8946
DENVER, April 24 /Christian Wire Service/ -- One of America's oldest pro-life organizations, Colorado Right to Life (CRLC), mourns the loss of the millions of innocent babies killed in their mother's womb, since the passage of the nation's first abortion law signed on April 25, 1967. "Our nation is owed an apology for our state's role in starting the abortion holocaust," said Diane Hochevar, CRLC President.
The organization applauds South Dakota for passing the first law restoring legal protection to pre-born babies. "As the state that started the abortion holocaust, we should have been the first to lead America back to protecting all human life, from fertilization through natural death," said Colorado Right to Life V.P., Leslie Hanks. "South Dakota citizens should be very proud of their elected officials."
Former Governor Dick Lamm, who as a freshman representative, sponsored the Colorado law in 1967. Not content with orchestrating the attack on the vulnerable pre-born, Lamm expanded his ideology to include the elderly and medically vulnerable with his "duty to die" speech a number of years ago.
"As America begins to ponder the significant loss of love and talent our nation has discarded as medical waste, it should remember that when Colorado made the tragic error of allowing pre-born lives to be destroyed through abortion we began a culture of death which has led to all human life being greatly devalued, " said Hanks.
CRLC maintains that Terri Schiavo and others like her might not have been in such jeopardy had Colorado rejected the taking of innocent life for cases of rape, incest and the mother's health back in 1967. "When babies aren't safe in their mother's wombs, we are all in danger." notes Hanks.
Colorado Right to Life will continue its efforts to build a culture of life in its home state and encourages every state to follow the lead set by South Dakota. "We must reject the taking of innocent life and embrace our founding documents," said Hochevar. "The Declaration of Independence boldly proclaims that 'We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.'"
To: National & State Desks
Contact: Leslie Hanks, Colorado Right to Life V.P., 720-394-8946
DENVER, April 24 /Christian Wire Service/ -- One of America's oldest pro-life organizations, Colorado Right to Life (CRLC), mourns the loss of the millions of innocent babies killed in their mother's womb, since the passage of the nation's first abortion law signed on April 25, 1967. "Our nation is owed an apology for our state's role in starting the abortion holocaust," said Diane Hochevar, CRLC President.
The organization applauds South Dakota for passing the first law restoring legal protection to pre-born babies. "As the state that started the abortion holocaust, we should have been the first to lead America back to protecting all human life, from fertilization through natural death," said Colorado Right to Life V.P., Leslie Hanks. "South Dakota citizens should be very proud of their elected officials."
Former Governor Dick Lamm, who as a freshman representative, sponsored the Colorado law in 1967. Not content with orchestrating the attack on the vulnerable pre-born, Lamm expanded his ideology to include the elderly and medically vulnerable with his "duty to die" speech a number of years ago.
"As America begins to ponder the significant loss of love and talent our nation has discarded as medical waste, it should remember that when Colorado made the tragic error of allowing pre-born lives to be destroyed through abortion we began a culture of death which has led to all human life being greatly devalued, " said Hanks.
CRLC maintains that Terri Schiavo and others like her might not have been in such jeopardy had Colorado rejected the taking of innocent life for cases of rape, incest and the mother's health back in 1967. "When babies aren't safe in their mother's wombs, we are all in danger." notes Hanks.
Colorado Right to Life will continue its efforts to build a culture of life in its home state and encourages every state to follow the lead set by South Dakota. "We must reject the taking of innocent life and embrace our founding documents," said Hochevar. "The Declaration of Independence boldly proclaims that 'We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.'"
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