An urgent plea from Terri Schiavo's father

Over on Newsmax is an urgent plea letter from Terri Schiavo's father, Bob Schindler Sr., asking for your help in fighting for her right to live.

If you aren't familiar with Terri's story, the abbreviated version is that she is the woman in Florida who has severe brain damage, and her estranged husband is trying to get a court order to have her life support systems pulled - in effect, starving her to death, which is a particularly gruesome, slow, painful way to die (remember the famine in Ethiopia, and in other places in Africa, and the pictures?). For more information about Terri, see Blogs for Terri, this post by David Limbaugh, and this post at Pro-Life Blogs (which says that allegations of abuse to Terri will be investigated).

If you have the means to help with Terri's defense, please do what you can. The link to do so is in the urgent plea from Terri's Dad, but I'll put it here, as well.

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

Or, if you prefer to donate by check, you may send it to:

"To submit a donation by check, please make check payable to "Terri Schin[d]ler-Schiavo Foundation" and send to:

The Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation c/o NewsMax PO Box 20989 West Palm Beach FL, 33416"

If this isn't stopped, I believe that we will open the "floodgates" for other people to be killed, because their condition makes them "inconvenient" for those who are tasked with providing for their care. Mr. Schindler reminds us of what happened in Germany during Hitler's reign of terror, when thousands of disabled people were sent for slaughter. Do we, as a nation, want to follow that dark path, too? I certainly hope not.