Tag: Terri Schiavo

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post

Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 25, 2024

Categorized
Euthanasia, Health Care

Tagged
, Dr. David Weldon, journalism, national review, Terri Schiavo, Wesley J. Smith}

The Media Still Can’t Get Facts about Terri Schiavo Right

_{Wesley J. Smith

November 25, 2024

Euthanasia, Health Care}

Terri Schiavo was cruelly dehydrated to death almost 20 years ago, and the media still can’t get the facts right. Terri’s case has come up again in media stories discussing the nomination of former congressman Dr. David Weldon to head the CDC. As usual, there are misreporting and wrongful implications when Terri’s case is discussed. Read More ›

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post

Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 28, 2023

Categorized
Euthanasia

Tagged
, assisted suicide, Bobby Schindler, euthanasia, medical assistance in dying, Terri Schiavo}

Terri Schiavo Case Was a Culture-of-Death Tipping Point

_{Wesley J. Smith

March 28, 2023

Euthanasia}

The March 31, 2005, court-ordered death of Terri Schiavo was an ominous cultural tipping point. As many readers will recall, the legal case began when Terri’s husband Michael Schiavo applied to remove the feeding tube from his profoundly cognitively disabled wife so that she would die by dehydration. When Terri’s parents Bob and Mary Schindler, joined by her siblings Bobby and Suzanne, fought the plan in court, profoundly important cultural and legal battle lines were drawn that were destined to change the country. Read More ›

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post

Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 3, 2023

Categorized
Human Dignity

Tagged
, Disability, John Fetterman, Terri Schiavo, trump}

Shame on Trump Jr. for Calling Fetterman a ‘Vegetable’

_{Wesley J. Smith

March 3, 2023

Human Dignity}

It was wrong when people called Terri Schiavo a “vegetable,” and it is wrong when Donald Trump Jr. wields the same slur against Senator John Fetterman at CPAC. Read More ›

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podcast

Author
Jackson Meyer

Date
April 11, 2022

Tagged
, end of life issues, Terri Schiavo}

Lynn Vincent on ‘Lawless,’ the Truth About the Terri Schiavo Case, and Why Terri Still Matters

_{Lynn Vincent

April 11, 2022}

When Terri Schiavo collapsed with a cardiac arrest in 1990, she could have had no idea that 32 years later people all over the world would know her name and care very much about the manner in which she died. What began as a private family tragedy ultimately exploded into an international cultural conflagration and what was perhaps the most Read More ›