Blogging for Terri - Please Pray for Her! (UPDATED)

I received an email today from Blogs for Life, and its content bears repeating:

"Today, the courts rejected the pleas of Terri’s parents to stop her husband, Michael, from withholding food and water from her. He has promised to begin starving her tomorrow at 1 pm.

Most of you are aware that Terri is not a "vegetable" or "brain-dead" as Michael and his lawyers claim, but responds to others and is aware of her surroundings. She laughs, smiles and, according to her nurses, has a small vocabulary.

Terri is not on life support and is healthy. She needs help eating and is fed through a tube (helping someone eat and drink who is impaired has never been considered artificial life support).

While Michael asserts he is carrying out Terri's wishes, he waited until after he received a large sum of money from a lawsuit against her doctors before making this claim . During the lawsuit, he alleged negligence and motivated a financial award with the potential cost of Terri’s rehabilitation.

However, Terri has been denied rehabilitation that experts testify could allow her to eat and talk. The courts in Florida have consistently blocked appeals to give Terri proper tests and therapy that would improve her life.

Terri may not have the capabilities she once had, but she is no less valuable and no less a person.

Here is what you can do to help Terri:
  1. Pray for Terri and her family.
  2. Blog - communicate the truth about what is going on and rally support for Terri and the Schindlers.
  3. Visit BlogsforTerri (http://www.blogsforterri.com) for information and to join the team of blogs for Terri.
  4. Deluge Gov. Jeb Bush with emails and phone calls. He has the power to intervene. Here is his contact information:

    Governor Jeb Bush
    [email protected]
    850 / 488-4441
    850 / 487-0801 (fax)
  5. Support HB701 (click here).
  6. Important - Bypass the Mainstream Media - pledge support for a paid advertisement in the St. Petersburg Tribune to inform its 450,000 paid subscribers about what is really happening to Terri. [http://www.blogsforterri.com/pledge.php]"

UPDATE: The feeding tube will remain another day! Please keep praying for Terri Schiavo and her family, and read more information here.

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