Terri Speaks!

Terri_2The Family Research Council has released audio (.mp3) of Terri Shiavo responding to her father immediately after the removal of her food tube.

In the recording she appears to be distressed and responds to questions by making moaning sounds and attempting at one point to say "Hi."

Her father asks her if someone has hurt her and she responds strongly. He then asks her if specific parts of her body hurts and she fails to respond, suggesting that the hurt is not an immediate physical hurt but something more general that someone has done to her.

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Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

7 thoughts on “Terri Speaks!”

  1. Golly, it takes an awful lot to impress me about a political party these days, but what can I conclude except that when the Republicans are in charge, Democrats get to snuff fewer lives?

  3. Just out of morbid curiosity, is Mr. Schiavo Catholic? If so, once he’s rid himself of the Inconvenient Woman, will he be trotting off, together with his concubine, to sign up for Engaged Encounter? If so, can this be prevented?

  4. May God have mercy on this nation. The first and most important job of our Constitution is to a)preserve the inalienable rights of life,liberty, and the pursuit of happiness and b)to prevent tyranny of government at all costs.
    Whose inalienable rights are being violated here? Michael is free to commit adultery and create two children with another woman while still married. He is already well into his ‘pursuit of happiness’, IMO. Terri, however, has no say in her own life, is at the mercy of a court who has no authority to declare her ‘sub-human’, and relies on a tube which is removed and re-inserted at the will of others.
    Those who are against Congress acting in this case say that it is a clear case of government tyranny. I say that the fact that they have to act to declare a person worthy of life suggests that we already live under tyranny.

  5. Woman, will he be trotting off, together with his concubine, to sign up for Engaged Encounter? If so, can this be prevented?
    If he’s Catholic, under canon law, yes. I think.
    Crimen is the impedient arising from
    1. two people committing adultery and promising to marry, or going through a form of marriage.
    2. two people committing adultery and then one of them killing the spouse,
    or
    3. a person killing someone — his spouse, or the spouse of other person — to free himself or the other person for them to marry.
    (I have e-mailed Jimmy to draw this comment to his attention. )

  6. What a sick man to push his wife to the side and make her die after he abused her
    let him go without food and water along with her and no sex with his new common law wife . After all he should be charged with attempt of murder .But the courts helping!She is limited to see her family well he should be limited to supervised vistation and then a restraing order for him to be around her. God breathed life into our nostrils to give us life its ashame people work so hard to take it away instead of help with keeping life so precious .We can pay to feed outher countries but not to support the lives of our own . Very Sad.

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