Pro-Life Is Not A Single Issue : Know The Truth About Another Pro-Life Issue

Kate Adamson

In 1995 at the age of thirty-three, Kate Adamson suffered a double brainstem stroke Not yet availablecompletely paralyzing her and leaving her unable even to blink her eyes. Like Terri Schiavo, Kate most basic care of food and water was removed for a full eight days. Fortunately, her feeding tube was restored due to the intervention of her husband.

Author of "Paralyzed but not Powerless", Kate now travels the country as the only professional speaker to have recovered from Locked-in Syndrome.




http://www.terrisfight.org/index.php is the official website of the Terri Schindler Schaivo Foundation, that helps families fight for those who cannot fight for themselves. And that pro-life issue is assisted suicide and euthanasia and NO one is exempt from this one IF you or a loved one is deemed not enjoying enough "quality of life."

Additionally, this most certainly concerns the elderly as well as the infirm, injured, ill, and marginalized generally.

The problem is this: most of us are ignorant to the scientific terminology, the dying process, doublespeak of the "they are better off" mindset, and more. This website is one way of being sure that YOU are not ignorant. You may need to decide these decisions and NO one, as I said, can escape the possibility it could happen to yourself or someone you love at any moment.

Brain dead...what is that really? How do you know? It's a term loosely used. What is a "vegetable"? What really happens to the dying person in the 2 weeks it takes for all their body to shut down? Does it hurt? What is quality of life anyway?

Do you want the truth? Go here and see if for youself http://terrisfight.org/pages.php?page_id=37

Just one example of what this website has to offer to educate yourselves for that time, if that time arrives:

April 25, 2009 (News Alert)

Saturday our special guest will be award-winning author and attorney Wesley J. Smith.Not yet available

Wesley J. Smith is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, an attorney for the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, and a special consultant for the Center for Bioethics and Culture.

Attorney Smith has testified as an expert witness in front of federal and state legislative committees, and has counseled government leaders internationally about matters of mutual concern.

Attorney Smith is a frequent guest and friend of America’s Lifeline bringing us up to date on all of the critical issues we talk about each week that are facing our nation today.

So join us this Saturday at 3 PM ET on Talk Radio 860 WGUL for America's Lifeline!


At this website, you are kept abreast of latest news and legislature alerts, for example:
News Alert! Second International Symposium on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
Quadriplegic Child Found Dead in Storage Facility
Vermont Introduces Assisted Suicide Bill
Final Exit Network is a Death Cult

And upcoming seminars in your area:
5/3 Hankinson, North Dakota
5/14 Reno, Nevada
5/29 - 5/30 Landsdowne, Virginia
6/18 - 6/20 Charlotte, NC
6/26 Hilo, Hawaii


I urge you to study assisted suicide and euthanasia and learn it well. Having taken care of my mother full time at home, I am so thankful I knew about these things.

Please visit and learn all you can....please for the sake of your family.

Brain Death Criteria -- Really? Or Maybe Not.

By Hilary White - Rome correspondent

ROME, February 26, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - If a patient is able to process oxygen from the lungs into the bloodstream, maintain a normal body temperature, digest food and expel waste, grow to normal adult size from the age of four to twenty, and even carry a child to term, can he or she be considered dead? Can a person who is "dead" wake up and go on later to finish a university degree? Can a corpse get out of bed, go home and go fishing? Can he get married and have children?

These are among the real-life stories of patients declared "brain dead" presented by medical experts at the "Signs of Life" conference on "brain death" criteria held near the Vatican in Rome last week. Ten speakers, who are among the world's most eminent in their fields, sounded a ringing rebuke to the continued support among medical professionals and ethicists for "brain death" as an accepted criterion for organ removal.

Dr. Paul Byrne, the conference organizer, told LifeSiteNews.com he was delighted with the success of the conference, that he hopes will bring the message that "brain death is not death" inside the walls of the Vatican where support for "brain death" criteria is still strong.

Dr. Byrne, a neonatologist and clinical professor of pediatrics at the University of Toledo, compared the struggle against "brain death" criteria with another battle: "I'm sure that slavery was at one time well-accepted in the United States, and that people saw big benefits to slavery. And yes, it was difficult to go away from that but it was absolutely essential."

"Slavery was doing evil things to persons. This issue of 'brain death' was invented to get beating hearts for transplantation. And there is no way that this can go on. It must get stopped."

Participants came from all over the world to attend the Signs of Life conference, with speakers from Quebec, Alberta, Ontario, Germany, Poland, the US, Brazil and Italy. The conference hall was packed to standing-room only with physicians, clergy, students, journalists, and academics. Clergy included two senior officials of the Vatican curia: Francis Cardinal Arinze, the head of the Congregation for Divine Worship and Sergio Cardinal Sebastiani, the President Emeritus of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See. Two senior members of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith were also present. Conference organizers told LifeSiteNews.com that they had expected no more than a hundred to attend and were surprised but very pleased with the crowd of over 170 for the one-day event.

Conflicting voices on "brain death" criteria are still battling in the Church. In February 2005, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences (PAS) refused to publish the findings of its own conference after the speakers roundly denounced "brain death" as a cynical invention to further the monetary interests of organ transplanters. The speakers said that using "brain death" for the purpose of organ harvesting results in the death of helpless patients. The PAS convened a second conference in 2007 with different speakers who, with only two dissenting, supported "brain death" for organ transplants. Papers from the 2005 conference that opposed "brain death" were excluded without explanation to their authors.

During a Vatican-sponsored conference last November on organ transplantation, at which not a single speaker raised their voice against "brain death," Pope Benedict XVI warned in an address that "the removal of organs is allowed only in the presence of his actual death." But on the Monday following the Friday organ transplant conference, only the PAS conference report in favor of "brain death" was posted to the Vatican website and not the Pope's warning.

Dr. Byrne said that a major function of the Signs of Life conference was "to support Pope Benedict," whose address in November, he said, had started to turn the Church against "brain death."

"It's here to demonstrate clearly that 'brain death' never was true death. What we're trying to do is come back to the truth and protect and preserve the life that comes from God.

"When there are attacks on life, then we, as physicians, defend it and that is what this conference is for."

The Signs of Life conference, sponsored privately by various pro-life organizations, including Human Life International, the Northwest Ohio Guild of the Catholic Medical Association, American Life League and the Italian organization Associazione Famiglia Domani, stood in opposition to the second PAS conference, which was titled, "The Signs of Death."