Politics
Thursday March 31, 2005
Terri Schiavo Torture and Execution Completed - It is Finished
Father Into Thy Hands We Commend Her Spirit
TODAY'S HEADLINES
E-MAIL
PRINT
PINELLAS PARK, FL, March 31, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The website set up by Terri Schiavo's parents which for years catalogued their efforts to save her life had a simple message today reading: "Terri's struggle for life has ended this morning. December 3, 1963 - March 31, 2005"
In a final affront, Michael Schiavo denied Terri the presence of her family during her final moments. Although they were allowed to be present until shortly before her death, Michael denied Terri her parent's comfort in her final moments and death.
"It is with great sadness that I report that Terri Schiavo has passed away," said Brother Paul O'Donnell, the Schindler's spiritual advisor, emerging early Thursday from the Florida Hospice where Terri spent her final years, according to a USA Today report.
Fr. Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, said, "This is not only a death, with all the sadness that brings, but this is a killing, and for that we not only grieve that Terri has passed but we grieve that our nation has allowed such an atrocity as this and we pray that it will never happen again."
"Today, millions of Americans are saddened by the death of Terri Schiavo. Laura and I extend our condolences to Terri Schiavo's family," US President George W. Bush said Thursday from Washington. "I urge all those who honor Terri Schiavo to continue to work to build a culture of life where all Americans are welcomed and valued and protected, especially those who live at the mercy of others."
Other notable politicians joined the President in offering their condolences and in rebuking the judicial system that mandated her death. "May God bless her memory," said Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist. House Majority Leader, Texan Tom DeLay described Schiavo's death as a "moral poverty and a legal tragedy." "This loss happened because our legal system did not protect the people who need protection most, and that will change," he promised. "The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior, but not today. Today we grieve, we pray, and we hope to God this fate never befalls another."
Vatican Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins condemned Terri's murder shortly after her death. Cardinal Martins, prefect for the congregation for the causes of saints, said, "An attack against life is an attack against God, who is the author of life." Earlier in the day, head of the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Cardinal Renato Martino, told Vatican Radio, "The dutiful and unavoidable respect for a human being should impose that ... what would practically and without euphemism be murder - to which it is impossible to stand by inert without becoming an accomplice - be avoided."
Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, said, "Hopefully Terri's death will result in legislation being enacted to protect people who are cognitively disabled from similar acts of death by dehydration."
"Terri was a citizen of the United States, but we are aware in Canada that this situation could just as easily have occurred here. When courts decide that innocent people will be deprived of the necessities of life, such as food and water, we are in a society which is out of control," said Jim Hughes, National President of Campaign Life Coalition. "I thank God that I had the opportunity to stand outside the Woodside Hospice in Florida last week and joined the others in prayers for Terri and her family."
"Campaign Life Coalition will continue to pray for Terri and her parents and also for both the United States and Canada," Hughes added. "We must take both our countries back from the courts."
tv
Back to TopLatest Headlines
- Cardinal Rigali: You Can't Claim to be "Reducing Abortions" but Publicly Funding them in D.C.
- General Electric to Use Embryonic Stem Cells for Testing, Phase out Lab Rats
- Ohio Supreme Court Allows Planned Parenthood to Conceal Abortion Records in Sexual Abuse Case
- LifeSiteNews Canada Day and Independence Day Message. Taking a few days off. LSN returns Monday July 6
- Heroically Pro-Life Brazilian Archbishop's Resignation Accepted Under Cloud of Vatican Newspaper Misrepresentation
- Pro-Life Groups Announce New Colorado Personhood Initiative
- Judge Puts Kibosh on DC Gay "Marriage" Referendum
- Al Franken Win Hands Supermajority to Senate Democrats
- Group Funded by Canadian Bishops' D&P Joins with Others to Denounce the "Natural Family" and "Family Rights"
- Financially Troubled Planned Parenthood of El Paso Closes Doors
- Abortion Linked to Subsequent Pre-Term Births, New Research Again Confirms
- New Orleans Homosexual Couple Ask Fed. Court to Overturn Marriage Amendment
- Slim Hope Of New Ontario Progressive Conservative Party Leader Promoting Pro-Life, Pro-Family Issues
- Pope Accepts Resignation of Bishop Caught Involved in Homosexual Encounters
- Young Children Removed from UK Schools for "Inappropriate Sexual Behaviour"
- Northern Ireland Politician Cleared of Wrongdoing after Reiterating Christian Teaching on Homosexual Acts
- UK Conservative Leader Speaks at Gay Pride Fundraiser
- More Letters to the Editor on Canadian Catholic Development and Peace Scandal (July 1)
- Letters to the Editor - Readers Respond to Development and Peace Scandal
- Watch This Dramatic New Video on Catholic Bishops Conference Funding of Pro-Abortion Groups
Most Read this Week
- Homosexual Duke U. Director Charged with Offering Adopted 5-Year-Old for Sex
- Famed Fr. Corapi Calls Canadian Bishops' Dissent from Humanae Vitae "Catastrophic"
- Pope: It is a Childish Faith to Oppose the Church Teaching on Life and Family
- Heroically Pro-Life Brazilian Archbishop's Resignation Accepted Under Cloud of Vatican Newspaper Misrepresentation
- LifeSiteNews Detailed Response to Canadian Bishops' Whitewash Report on Development and Peace
- Young Children Removed from UK Schools for "Inappropriate Sexual Behaviour"
- General Electric to Use Embryonic Stem Cells for Testing, Phase Out Lab Rats
- Is Pro-Choice the New Pro-Life?
- Swedish Parents Won't Tell if Child is Boy or Girl as Gender Experiment
- Cardinal Rigali: You Can't Claim to be "Reducing Abortions" but Publicly Funding them in D.C.
MORE NEWS: 
LifeSiteNews.com Home Page Last 10 Days Archives Special Reports
Copyright © LifeSiteNews.com. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivatives License. You may republish this article or portions of it without request provided the content is not altered and it is clearly attributed to "LifeSiteNews.com". Any website publishing of complete or large portions of original LifeSiteNews articles MUST additionally include a live link to www.LifeSiteNews.com. The link is not required for excerpts. Republishing of articles on LifeSiteNews.com from other sources as noted is subject to the conditions of those sources.