Bobby Schindler On College Tour This Week
Posted on Monday, 7 of April , 2008 at 10:57 am
This week, Bobby Schindler, brother of Terri Schindler Schiavo, the disabled woman who died by court order in March 2005 while the entire world watched, will address students at Villanova University, the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, Princeton University and the University of Notre Dame. Since Terri’s deliberate and horrific death on March 31, 2005, Bobby and other members of the Schindler family have been invited to speak in nearly 150 cities across the United States and internationally, as well.
The Schindlers have dedicated their lives to helping families, educating the public and raising awareness not only about the misinformation that continues regarding Terri’s situation, but also about the ongoing threat of euthanasia against the tens of thousands of others with disabilities similar to Terri’s.
Terri, who sustained brain injuries in suspicious circumstances in 1990, died 13 days after Pinellas County Court Judge George Greer not only ordered that her feeding tube be removed at the behet of her heavily conflicted husband in name only, Michael Schiavo, but that she not be feed orally. Florida Statutes prohibit the withholding of food and water from any individual. Terri was placed at the center of a bitter, decade-long courtroom battle between Michael Schiavo, her estranged husband who was determined to kill his wife, and her parents, Mary and Bob Schindler Sr. who wanted to take her home and care for her.
The Schindlers fought to save Terri’s life, arguing with the support of nearly 40 neurologists and physicians that Terri could improve with new testing and rehabilitation, that she was alert, cognizant and responsive, certainly not terminal. The Schindlers disputed Michael’s self-serving hearsay, saying that Terri never would have expressed such a desire to die.
Bobby now works full-time for the Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation, a non-profit group dedicated to ensuring the rights of disabled, elderly and vulnerable citizens against care rationing, euthanasia and medical killing.
He has been a passionate and outspoken pro-life advocate, specifically in opposition to the euthanasia movement, activist judges and pro-death lawyers and doctors. He believes that laws that set the groundwork for his sister’s death were motivated by the expense of caring for the disabled and elderly.
“It still astonishes me that we fought for 15 years because we simply wanted to bring her home to take care of her”, he said. “Society has taken a monumental shift to accept a quality of life standard…..thousands have been killed. It’s happening every day”.
Bobby spoke Sunday night at Villanova. On Monday, April 7, at 6 p.m., he will speak at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine in Philadelphia. The event is not open to the public.
He will also speak Monday at Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic School in Southhampton, Pa. This is the same school and parish that the Schindler family attended while living in Huntingdon Valley, Pa. It is also the church where Terri was married. The event is not open to the public.
The public is invited to hear Bobby speak Tuesday, April 8, at Princeton University in Princeton, NJ. The event is being held at Frist Campus Center-310 at 7:30 p.m.
He will appear on Friday, April 11 at 3:30 p.m. at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. This event is also open to the public.
Anyone wishing more information about these events can contact the Foundation or visit www.terrisfight.org ww.terrisfight.org
Category: Calendar, Constitution, Courts, Disabled, Education, Florida, Health, Schiavo
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