Dear List(s),

This "cause" is affecting the innocent....

Children being arrested for bringing water to the hospice for Terri,
what are their parents doing to protect them? This is abuse (to the
children). Why are people from North Carolina protesting outside of
a hospice where others are dying, those cognitively NOT PVS.

If God is speaking what is HE saying to you, as this story
continues to take precedence, whereas as Governor (Florida)
is brother to a President (George Bush).

If anyone had given Terri water by mouth she could have
died of aspiration pneumonia are these individuals out there
furthering her life, her cause?

I continue to pray for all...

Peace,
Karen



http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20050326025109990001

Hospice Protests Disturb Visitors
Delays to See Dying Loved Ones Add to Grief
By JILL BARTON, AP

PINELLAS PARK, Fla. (March 26) - Jennifer Johnson, barefoot and in her
pajamas, ran to her grandfather's bedside once a hospice worker said his death
was
moments away.
She got there - one minute too late.


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Dozens of protesters have arrived since the tube was removed March 18, and at
least 15 have been arrested, prompting a police barricade around the facility
and unprecedented security.


Johnson said the chaos outside the hospice where Terri Schiavo is dying kept
her from saying goodbye. When Johnson arrived, a police officer demanded
identification; she had none. And after a hospice employee cleared her, another
officer halted her for a search with a metal detector.
The delays lasted three to four minutes - the last of her grandfather's life.
"It's a terrible, extra obstacle to put in front of a family. ... Everything
is about Schiavo," Johnson said. "It's all about her and in my family's case,
it cost us dearly."
Woodside Hospice has 70 patients besides Schiavo, whose parents are
desperately trying to have her feeding tube reconnected. Dozens of protesters
have
arrived from across the nation since the tube was removed March 18, and at least
15 have been arrested, prompting a police barricade around the facility and
unprecedented security.
Family members visiting patients must pass through a police checkpoint to
park, then show identification outside the door before another security
screening
inside. They also must walk by scores of signs decrying Schiavo's
"crucifixion," "torture," and "starvation," plus navigate around hordes of media
who have
been camped outside.
"To have to maneuver through all of this and have a hostile environment
outside when all they want is peace and quiet and to enjoy those few days they
have
left with a loved one is a horror," said Dr. Morton Getz, executive director
of Douglas Gardens Hospice in Miami.
Getz said many people with a family member in a hospice have to make the same
excruciating decision that courts have made for Schiavo.
"It's causing a lot of grief and questions in their own mind on whether they
did the right thing," he said. "It's unconscionable to have a family member to
be near the end stages of life and to get there, you have to walk through
signs that say, 'Murderer."'
Most protesters direct their signs and their chants against the courts and
Michael Schiavo, Terri's husband, who insists she would not want to be kept
alive artificially.
But walking through a hostile environment can only add stress to what's
already an emotionally draining situation.
"It probably has the same psychological effect on the residents' families as
it does on someone who is walking into an abortion clinic and facing signs and
aggressive behavior," said Elizabeth Foley, a Florida International
University law professor who specializes in bioethics.
Over the past few days, as Schiavo's parents' attempts to have their
daughter's feeding tube reinserted repeatedly failed, signs outside the hospice
have
grown more desperate. Doctors have said Schiavo would probably die within a
week or two of the feeding tube being removed.
Messages compare Michael Schiavo to Scott Peterson, convicted of killing his
wife and unborn child in California, and John Evander Couey, who allegedly
murdered a 9-year-old girl in Homosassa.
One woman in a wheelchair regularly moves up and down sidewalks in front of
the hospice yelling in a megaphone, "We're disabled, not disposable!" and
"Terri is a person, not a vegetable!"
Relatives of hospice residents say the clamor - intended to rattle Michael
Schiavo - rattles their patience.
"It's a real pain in the neck," said Bill Douglass, whose mother-in-law is a
resident. He said the only consolation is that she is "oblivious" to the
outside scene.
Police and hospice officials say they are trying to minimize the intrusion on
hospice residents and their families, and that the security measures are
meant to protect the privacy and safety of all residents, not just Schiavo.
But Johnson, 24, said her 73-year-old grandfather, Thomas Bone, was
restricted from moving freely around the hospice grounds during his final days.
He died
just hours after Terri Schiavo's feeding tube was removed and protests
intensified.
"They've taken away hospice's greatest quality, that it is peaceful and
serene and quiet and calming - and it's not fair," Johnson said.
03/26/05 02:41 EST
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