Let's pray to help improve our Health Care System. Let's call on our loving, gracious, merciful Creator Lord's help, and help to repeal, or change all the problems with, the new Health Care Law today! To say that there aren't any problems with the new Helath Care Law is like saying that there aren't any problems here in the United States!!

                                                                 7/22/14

How can we improve our Health Care System?  Let's try to improve our Health Care System today!  Let's call on our Creator Lord for His help today, and forever!!!  Let's pray to help improve our Health Care System today!!

Dear family, and friends, and all others concerned,

Greetings on this glorious day that the Lord has made!  I hope that you and the loved ones are in good health and are getting along.   Good health is such a wonderful blessing from the good Lord, our Creator Lord!  How is your spirit on this glorious day?  Please remember that we humans are more than flesh and blood.  Please remember that we humans are created by our Creator Lord, in His image, for His glory!  I am very thankful to our loving, gracious, merciful Creator Lord for being able to get out of bed, and for the opportunity to write this blog!  Let's call on our Creator Lord, our loving, gracious, merciful Creator Lord and ask for His help at this time, and in the future!  Let's try to repeal, or change all the problems with, the new Health Care Law.  It's a shame that many don't know what's in the new law (it's over 1,000 pages long!), and it's also a shame that people don't want to change, or do away with, all the problems in the new law (and to say that there aren't any problems in the new law is like saying that there aren't any problems here in the United States!).

Government shouldn't ration health care.  Also, government shouldn't be allowed to pay for abortions.   Rationing health care is not protecting life.  Rationing health care is not supporting life! Also, abortion is the destruction of life - life given as a gift from the Lord, our Creator Lord!  The Holy Scriptures tell us about our Creator Lord, and how we humans are created by our Creator Lord, in His image, and how we should value life, and how we should protect and support life, and how our Creator Lord loves us so much that He sent His only begotten Son Jesus into this world to shed His blood and to die on a cross for us sinners, so that we might have eternal life! The Holy Scriptures are pure, perfect, powerful, profitable for doctrine and teaching, and cannot be broken!  Our Creator Lord is faithful!  Our Creator Lord is true!  Our Creator Lord can be taken at His Word!  Our Creator Lord is good!  Our Creator Lord is good all the time!!  Jesus is the Word of God!  Our Creator Lord is love!  Love always protects.  Love always hopes.  Love does not delight in evil.  Love is the commandment from the beginning.



The House of Representatives voted to repeal the new Health Care Law in the past, but the Senate did not chose the right path at this time (perhaps in the future they might!).  Please help to repeal, or change all the problems with, the new Health Care Law!

Thank you very much for all your help! Hope that you and the loved ones have a joyous and peaceful day.   Please remember to pray for our leaders, and the leaders of the world!  Hope that you call on our Creator Lord for help at this time (and in the future), and may the good Lord, our Creator Lord, bless you and the loved ones with love, joy, peace, and patience, and with the wisdom and understanding needed to help to repeal, or change all the problems with, the new Health Care Law! !

In hope, peace, and love,



Ken Miller
Main St. Rm. 103
still one of the working poor - if only in spirit!

We love, because He first loved us.  Jesus is our Rock!!!  Jesus is our Fortress!!  Jesus is our Righteousness!!!

God is love.  God is love.  Jesus is our Righteousness!!!  Jesus is our Redeemer!!!  Jesus is our Atonement!!!

Jesus is the Holy One of Israel!  Jesus is the Living Water!!!  Jesus is the Bread of Life!!!

With God, all things are possible!

All glory, honor, praise , and thanks be to our Creator Lord - maker of heaven and earth - Messiah and King!!!!

How about justice for the unborn children???  Let's seek justice for the unborn children - the preborn children!!!

                     


                                 7/22/14

     How is our Health Care System?  How can we improve it?

The Continued Deterioration of Our Health Care System
by Bobby Schindler  /  Washington DC  /  LifeNews.com  /  March 20, 2014

     It was nine years ago, March 18, 2005, that my sister, Terri Schiavo's feeding tube was removed by order of Pinellas County Florida Court Judge, George W. Greer.  It was by Greer's order that Terri would slowly die by way of starvation and dehydration.  It took almost two weeks.

     Since Terri's horrific death, the non-profit organization established by my family, the Terri Schiavo Life and Hope Network, works every day doing what we can to educate the public, raises the desperately needed awareness on this widely misunderstood issue of euthanasia, and more importantly, helps families that contact us.  The vast majority of families who do reach out to us are faced with situations where their loved ones are in jeopardy of having their life sustaining treatment denied.

     What has become painfully obvious is that it seems like almost every day, more examples of families' medical rights are being denied when it comes to decisions they are making for their loved ones.  Indeed, we receive calls similar to what our family experienced - a domestic dispute over the care of a family member.  However, more and more, we are getting calls from people who are fighting physicians, ethic committees, or health care facilities where their loved ones are being treated.

     It can go as far as, if you can believe it, families having their loved ones stripped away from their care by the hospital, losing complete custody.  When this does happen, there appears to be a certain pattern that begins the process.

     First, the hospital physicians, nurses or even the staff will create or exaggerate a situation involving the family, most times without any real evidence, or they will fault the parents or loved one who is the caregiver with some type of mishap with the patient.  Often times what follows is the family member(s) who were making medical treatment decisions are vilified, or accused of being the problem.  This gives the hospital a reason to intervene and subsequently take action to deem the family incompetent as the caretaker.

     The hospital can then go as far as restricting visitation rights, or completely stopping any family member from visiting their loved one, claiming that they are a "threat" to the care of the patient.  The hospital can then go to court in order to gain control of the patient by requesting that a guardian be appointed or even the hospital itself, in place of the family members who were caring for their loved one.

     The family who was once in the position of taking care of their loved one is now on the outside looking in - having no legal rights or any ability to help or even visit them.  If you think this cannot happen, then you haven't heard of three cases currently taking place where the family has been removed as the care givers of their child and / or spouse.  The cases of Justina Pelletier in Massachusetts, Bret Bohnin in Alaska, and the Gary Harvey case in New York.  All you need to do is look them up. 

      In each situation, the facility contends that these patients were not being properly cared for by their family member and as a result, the patients were removed from their custody.  Although these cases have their differences, there is one common denominator.  Despite the reasons specified, it appears that in each instance proper care was being given.  And in all of these situations, the care of their loved one has been put in the hands of strangers.

     There have been countless warning signs with the state of our health care system and its perilous direction when it comes to caring for those who are unable to speak for themselves.  Perhaps much of it started with the death of my sister, Terri.  It is because of this that over the next two weeks, Terri's Life and Hope Network website will post stories of the events that occurred on each of those horrific days of Terri's inhumane death.  Not only to remember Terri, but also to keep in mind the countless people who, as we speak, are suffering slow, agonizing deaths in hospices, nursing homes, and hospitals in America and around the world.  Not to mention that every one of us needs to understand that no longer are we the ones who will be making medical decisions for our loved ones if we ever find ourselves in a situation where a hospital decides it knows better.  

     Find out more about Terri Schiavo Life and Hope Network @ www.lifeandhope.com , or write them at P.O. Box 521, Narberth, PA 19072, or phone them at 855-300-HOPE (4673).

    Find out more about LifeNews.com @ www.LifeNews.com .



New note (added info. Not from the article):
     Any Health Care Law should protect life, support life, and should further the healing of human life and do no harm to human life, and should not force anyone to dishonor the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.  We humans are created by our Creator Lord, in His image, for His glory!  We humans are more than flesh and blood!  Any such Health Care Law should be discussed by, supported and agreed upon by, independents, republicans, and democrats alike and should be presented  to the public before voted upon Congress and signed by the President of the United States.  Any Health Care Law should show the public that all those involved with the writing of the Health Care Law value human life - life made in the image of our Creator -life given as a gift of the Lord.
     Let's call on our loving, gracious, merciful Creator Lord's help, and help to repeal, or change all the problems with, the new Health Care Law!!!


                                                            7/22/14

     Below is an article from LifeandHope Quarterly Update, April - June 2014.  To find out more about the Terri Schiavo Life and Hope Network write them at P.O. Box 521, Narberth, PA 19072, or phone them at 855-300-HOPE (4673), or email them at info@lifeandhope.com, or visit them at lifeandhope.com.  No financial gain, nor any other gain, was received for posting this article, nor were there any promises of any future gain given - the article is being posted to advance the Gospel of Peace - the GOOD NEWS.

Ignore the Advancing Euthanasia Culture at Your Peril, Your Loved Ones May be Starved to Death
By  Bobby Schindler / Washington, DC / LifeNews.com / June 11, 2014

     I wonder if we are paying attention to some of the more recent stories that have been reported in regards to euthanasia and assisted suicide.  Arguably, the most troubling of them have been reported overseas, however things here in our country are getting worse, as well.

     Just within the past few months we have seen Israel trying to approve assisted suicide, while Quebec has already pushed it through.  In Switzerland where assisted suicide is permitted, the Swiss went one step further by officially approving assisted suicide on the grounds of "old age".  In Belgium, physicians are averaging the killing of five patients per day by aiding in their deaths.

     Not to mention how these Belgian docs are giving themselves the "ok" to kill ICU patients.  And let's not forget the children.  The Belgian Parliament, in an 86-44 vote, did the unthinkable by legalizing euthanasia for children with disabilities.  But it's not just Belgium targeting children; it was reported that British doctors were killing terminally sick children by secretly giving them deadly overdoses. 

     Back home, it was reported that last year there were more than 100 physician aided deaths in the state of Washington, where physician assisted suicide has been legal for years.  In New Jersey, an assisted suicide bill has just been approved by the NJ Assembly committee.   A New York Times story reported that cost of of treatment is now having an influence on doctors and the care they give to patients.  Then, there was the story out of Massachusetts General and how their ethics committees were imposing unilateral DNR's on patients.

     Finally, according to Wesley J. Smith, a leading voice on medical ethics and the euthanasia issue, bioethicists are suggesting that nursing homes and hospitals should be "legally required to starve patients who can eat and drink, if they have serious dementia and have ordered their starvation deaths in an advance medical directive."  This is referred to as VSED, an acronym for "voluntary stopping eating and drinking" and according to Smith is, "the latest craze among the 'death with dignity' crowd."

     Again, this is what is happening in just the past few months!  Talk about the Slippery Slope!

     Indeed, these are stories that mostly concern assisted suicide, and they should cause deep concern for every single one of us.  However, the sad truth, and one that rarely gets mentioned, is the countless number of medically vulnerable being killed every day in health care facilities by having their basic care, food and water (via feeding tube), deliberately removed.  Certainly, it is safe to say that most Americans are aware that it was the 1972 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling decriminalizing abortion that paved the way for abortion on demand in our nation throughout a woman's pregnancy.

     Most Americans are unaware, however, that it was a 1990 Supreme Court decision, Cruzon v. Director, Missouri Department of Health that in effect redefined food and water (via feeding tube) from basic and ordinary care to what is now defined as "medical treatment".  Similar to the Roe decision, this ruling changed our nation in a profound way, opening the flood gates for the removal of food and hydration from an untold number of medically vulnerable patients.  Unlike Roe, this decision received no real attention and therefore the general public would have no way of knowing its implications (and consequences), or how many vulnerable persons would subsequently be placed in the cross hairs of an aggressive euthanasia movement.

     It is impossible to know how many patients are being purposely starved and dehydrated every day in our nation - we have no way of collecting the data.  Indeed, I sometimes still wonder why my sister, Terri Schiavo, received all of the national and international attention, because long before Terri's case, patients were having their food and hydration removed for the purpose of killing them.  If we did this to an animal, incidentally, we'd go to prison.

     If you take a look at the tens of thousands of health care facilities (hospitals, nursing homes, hospices) that are operating in our country, and combine that with how widely accepted (and legal) it is to starve and dehydrate a person, you begin to get a sense of the potential magnitude of people being killed in one of the most inhumane ways possible.  Not even taking into consideration the effects of Obamacare and how they are targeting these same classes of people.

     It is no coincidence that we are getting an increase in the number of calls at Terri's Life and Hope Network form families who are facing pressure from health care professionals not wanting to treat or administer basic medical care to their loved ones.

     The sad fact is the people and organizations behind the culture of death will not stop advancing their agenda in the most aggressive and devious ways possible. And when you combine the current climate of our culture, the government taking over our health care system, and no real organized effort or system in place to fight for the protection of our elderly, disabled, chronically sick and countless others, the number of our medically vulnerable who will be killed will increase, and I believe, increase exponentially.

end of article .......  but not the end of the struggle

     Let's call on our loving, gracious, merciful Creator Lord's help, and help to end euthanasia and assisted suicide today my friends. 



                                                                  7/22/14

Love always hopes.

     How is our Health Care System?  How can we improve it?


Below is an article about a travesty of justice - here in the United States!!  How did this happen - what can we do to stop it from happening again?

The following is an article from life and hope, a publication of the Terri Schiavo Life and Hope Network, volume 6 / 1st Edition / www.lifeandhope.com, pg. 8.

    Nine Years Ago My Sister 
Terri Schiavo was Dehydrated 
        and Starved to Death

As Our Health Care System Continues to Worsen
by Bobby Schindler  /  Washington DC  /  LifeNews.com  /  March 20, 2014

     It was nine years ago, March 18, 2005, that my sister, Terri Schiavo's feeding tube was removed by order of Pinellas County Florida Court Judge, George W. Greer.  It was by Greer's order that Terri would slowly die by way of starvation and dehydration.  It took almost two weeks.

     Since Terri's horrific death, the non-profit organization established by my family, the Terri Schiavo Life and Hope Network, works every day doing what we can to educate the public, raises the desperately needed awareness on this widely misunderstood issue of euthanasia, and more importantly, helps families that contact us.  The vast majority of families who do reach out to us are faced with situations where their loved ones are in jeopardy of having their life sustaining treatment denied.

     What has become painfully obvious is that it seems like almost every day, more examples of families' medical rights are being denied when it comes to decisions they are making for their loved ones.  Indeed, we receive calls similar to what our family experienced - a domestic dispute over the care of a family member.  However, more and more, we are getting calls from people who are fighting physicians, ethic committees, or health care facilities where their loved ones are being treated.

     It can go as far as, if you can believe it, families having their loved ones stripped away from their care by the hospital, losing complete custody.  When this does happen, there appears to be a certain pattern that begins the process.

     First, the hospital physicians, nurses or even the staff will create or exaggerate a situation involving the family, most times without any real evidence, or they will fault the parents or loved one who is the caregiver with some type of mishap with the patient.  Often times what follows is the family member(s) who were making medical treatment decisions are vilified, or accused of being the problem.  This gives the hospital a reason to intervene and subsequently take action to deem the family incompetent as the caretaker.

     The hospital can then go as far as restricting visitation rights, or completely stopping any family member from visiting their loved one, claiming that they are a "threat" to the care of the patient.  The hospital can then go to court in order to gain control of the patient by requesting that a guardian be appointed or even the hospital itself, in place of the family members who were caring for their loved one.

     The family who was once in the position of taking care of their loved one is now on the outside looking in - having no legal rights or any ability to help or even visit them.  If you think this cannot happen, then you haven't heard of three cases currently taking place where the family has been removed as the care givers of their child and / or spouse.  The cases of Justina Pelletier in Massachusetts, Bret Bohnin in Alaska, and the Gary Harvey case in New York.  All you need to do is look them up. 

      In each situation, the facility contends that these patients were not being properly cared for by their family member and as a result, the patients were removed from their custody.  Although these cases have their differences, there is one common denominator.  Despite the reasons specified, it appears that in each instance proper care was being given.  And in all of these situations, the care of their loved one has been put in the hands of strangers.

     There have been countless warning signs with the state of our health care system and its perilous direction when it comes to caring for those who are unable to speak for themselves.  Perhaps much of it started with the death of my sister, Terri.  It is because of this that over the next two weeks, Terri's Life and Hope Network website will post stories of the events that occurred on each of those horrific days of Terri's inhumane death.  Not only to remember Terri, but also to keep in mind the countless people who, as we speak, are suffering slow, agonizing deaths in hospices, nursing homes, and hospitals in America and around the world.  Not to mention that every one of us needs to understand that no longer are we the ones who will be making medical decisions for our loved ones if we ever find ourselves in a situation where a hospital decides it knows better.

end of article .........

Bobby Schindler is the brother of the late 
Terri Schiavo, and the Executive Director 
of the Terri Schiavo Life and Hope Network, 
at www.lifeandhope.com

     Find out more about Terri Schiavo Life and Hope Network @ www.lifeandhope.com , or write them at P.O. Box 521, Narberth, PA 19072, or phone them at 855-300-HOPE (4673).

    Find out more about LifeNews.com @ www.LifeNews.com .



New note (added info. Not from the article):
     Any Health Care Law should protect life, support life, and should further the healing of human life and do no harm to human life, and should not force anyone to dishonor the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.  We humans are created by our Creator Lord, in His image, for His glory!  We humans are more than flesh and blood!  Any such Health Care Law should be discussed by, supported and agreed upon by, independents, republicans, and democrats alike and should be presented  to the public before voted upon Congress and signed by the President of the United States.  Any Health Care Law should show the public that all those involved with the writing of the Health Care Law value human life - life made in the image of our Creator -life given as a gift of the Lord.
     Let's call on our loving, gracious, merciful Creator Lord's help, and help to repeal, or change all the problems with, the new Health Care Law!!!


                                                          7/22/14

The following is an article from life and hope, a publication from the Terri Schiavo Life and Hope Network, volume 6 / 1st Edition / www.lifeandhope.com


Recent Case ...

Recently the Life and Hope Network received a call from a young man in his 20s.  His fiance'e experienced an asthma attack and went into cardiac arrest two weeks prior to him contacting us.  Physicians initially diagnosed her as brain dead and she needed a ventilator to help with her breathing.  According to the young man, physicians re-diagnosed her after she began to show signs of improvement.

     Despite this, her parents asked physicians to remove her from the ventilator, with the understanding it would lead to their daughter's death.

     The physicians were wrong.  When her ventilator was removed, she began to breathe on her own and at that point, was only being sustained by food and water (via feeding tube).  According to her fiancee there were times when she was attempting to communicate.

     In spite of the signs of progress this young woman appeared tube making, and the desperate pleas from her fiancee, her parents made the decision to remove their daughter's feeding tube and she was subsequently administered morphine and Ativan.

     We received a message just recently, letting us know that this young woman had died.  Just one more example of how euthanasia is being practiced every day.

end of article ...........

This is sad and tragic and is occurring in the United States, and throughout the world!



Below is an article published in life and hope, a publication of the Terri Sciavo Life and Hope Network volume 6 / 1st Edition / www.lifeandhope.com.  This is posted for no monetary gain, or any other kind of gain, and for no promise of any kind of gain.

Unilateral Non-Resuscitation at Massachusetts General
By Wesley J. Smith
National Review Online / 05/12/14

Can this have something to do with Romney/Obamacare?

According to a medical study, since 2006, Massachusetts General Hospital's Bioethics Committee has forced people to not receive wanted resuscitation by imposing unilateral DNRs.  And apparently, it's all done in Star Chamber secrecy.  From Thaddeus Pope's blog (quoting from a medical symposium presentation).

     "Unilateral Do-Not-Resuscitate (DNR) orders are a specific type of medical futility decision in which clinicians withhold advanced cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in the event of cardiopulmonary arrest despite objections of patients or their surrogates.  There is little information on how often and to whom unilateral DNR orders are applied.  The ethics committee at Massachusetts General Hospital has had a unilateral DNR policy since 2006.

We investigated the incidence, sociodemographic and clinical predictors, and outcomes of patients with unilateral DNR orders.

     If I read this correctly, thirty-eight percent of those upon whom the unilateral DNRs appear not to have been at the end stage of a terminal disease:

     Patients for whom unilateral DNR was recommended were more likely to have conditions judged to be endstage rather than potentially reversible (62% versus 41 %, p=0.05)"

     And who can be surprised that non-whites were more likely to have an involuntary DNR imposed?

   This is medical tyranny.  People are refused potentially life-saving treatment based on the secret views of strangers in committee who have given themselves the power to so dictate.  Litigate!


end of article ...................................


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