Help Save My Daughter From Starvation! (from Terri Schiavo's father)

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Help Save My Daughter From Starvation! (from Terri

Schiavo's father)

 

 

 

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Help Save My Daughter From Starvation! (from Terri

Schiavo's father)

 

 

Dear Friend of Life,

 

By now you have probably heard about a young woman who

is threatened with starvation in Florida.

 

That young woman is my daughter, Terri. In 1990,

through circumstances which are shrouded in mystery

(and may involve a criminal act by Terri's estranged

husband), my daughter was left severely brain-damaged.

 

 

But before I go any further, I must put an end to the

lies and misinformation that are circulating around

the country through the media concerning my daughter's

condition.

 

Contrary to anything you may have heard, Terri is NOT

brain dead; Terri is NOT in a coma; she is NOT in a

" persistent vegetative state; " nor is she on ANY

life-support system.

 

 

Terri Schiavo responds

to her mother's touch

 

Terri laughs, Terri cries, she moves, and she makes

child-like attempts at speech with her mother and me.

Sometimes she will say " Mom " or " Dad " or " yeah " when

we ask her a question. When I kiss her hello or

goodbye, she looks at me and " puckers up " her lips.

 

This may not seem like much to you, but it means

everything to Terri's mother and me. It tells us she

is still here, she still knows us, and with therapy

and time she can have some level of recovery.

 

I know that there are some hard hearted people who

believe that due to my daughters condition, she is

better off dead. Words cannot describe the pain and

anger such sentiments cause us. This is our daughter,

our little girl, and even in her disabled condition,

she still has the right to life and the right to be

loved and cared for by her family.

 

Why, you may ask, is Terry in danger of death by

starvation?

 

It is a long and outrageous story, but I'll give it to

you as briefly as I can.

 

After the " incident " that left Terry in this

condition, her husband Michael Schiavo sued various

members of the medical community for money, saying

that they did not treat or diagnose her properly at an

early stage, and that he needed this money to provide

for Terri's therapy and rehabilitation and care.

 

After lengthy court battles, he finally won upwards of

$1.7 million under the guise of caring for our

daughter, and then to our horror, he immediately began

spending the money on himself and his Playboy

lifestyle.

 

Terri's estranged husband Michael Schiavo has been

living with another woman for years, and has two

children by her. He is determined to see Terri dead.

Why? We believe it's because he gets to keep whatever

money is left... and he may have even darker motives

than that.

 

To add insult to all of this injury toward my

daughter, Michael Schiavo is still her " legal husband "

and therefore is her " guardian. " And since they are

not legally divorced, he controls whatever health care

she will and will not get. We are not even allowed to

know if she is getting aspirin.

 

In 1993 my family initiated litigation against Michael

Schiavo solely for the purpose of acquiring medical,

physical and neurological assistance for our daughter

Terri. The litigation escalated in 1998 when Michael

Schiavo petitioned the court to stop Terri from

receiving food and water, thereby starving her to

death.

 

In filing this legal action, he retained the services

of a high profile euthanasia attorney and the

financial backing of powerful euthanasia

organizations. He also used Terri's medical

rehabilitation money to underwrite much of the legal

expenses associated with his effort to starve our

daughter to death.

 

We know that he has spent nearly $500,000 of Terri's

money in attorney's fees for just one attorney trying

to obtain a court order to have Terri starved to

death. The very money that was supposed to be used for

Terri's rehabilitation is being used to have her

killed.

 

We very quickly discovered it was impossible for us to

compete with the abundance of financial and legal

resources the pro-death organizations were providing

Micheal Schiavo in their effort to kill Terri. They

are pouring time and effort into her starvation

because they want to use this case to further the

agenda of legalized euthanasia.

 

My wife and I are not wealthy people. Throughout those

years, we did not have any large organizations trying

to help rescue our daughter. Consequently, we had to

rely on the generosity of attorneys who were willing

to offer their legal expertise at no cost or at

reduced fees.

 

The bottom line is that we are in the final weeks or

months of our struggle to rescue our daughter from an

untimely death by starvation. Death by starvation is

very slow, and extremely painful. As you must know, it

is against the law to deliberately starve an animal to

death. There are members of the Florida court who

would not treat a dog the way they plan to treat my

daughter.

 

At this point we must pull out all the stops in our

fight to rescue our daughter.

 

As parents, we are desperate to save our daughter's

life. As people who love life, we are determined to

deprive the euthanasia advocates of successfully

legalizing this form of homicide. We believe that

their efforts to kill Terri are designed to set a

precedent for the future eradication of defenseless

disabled human beings. I was alive when Americans

fought the Nazis; I do not want my daughter to meet

the same fate of thousands of disabled people in Nazi

Germany, and I do not want our country to go down that

same dark path.

 

Friend, though we have never met, I'm asking you for

your help. We desperately need your financial

assistance to help our family continue the battle to

keep our daughter from being starved to death. There

are so many expenses in a case like this it is

mind-boggling and overwhelming. Please click below to

make a contribution now:

 

https://secure.cartlight.com/merchant/terri/?afid=max

 

Our adversaries believe that by our family's financial

attrition and difficulties, they will attain their

objective of killing our daughter. Presently, Terri's

starvation may only be a few weeks away, unless we

find the financial resources to prevent this atrocity

from becoming a reality.

 

I implore you to please help us. We are writing to

you, because we believe you have a heart for justice

and mercy. I'm asking you to put yourself in my shoes,

and then do whatever you can to help our family.

Whether it is $10 or $1000, we are desperate for the

resources to fight this battle for our daughter's life

at this critical juncture.

 

Please do whatever you can, and forward this e-mail to

any friends or family that you have who you think

might be interested in saving Terri's life.

 

I thank you for your time, your concern, and I solicit

your prayers for Terri and our entire family. These

have been very trying times for us all.

 

Sincerely,

 

Bob Schindler Sr.

 

GO HERE TO CONTRIBUTE NOW!

https://secure.cartlight.com/merchant/terri/?afid=max

 

 

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