Dona eis requiem.
--
PRESS RELEASE

STATEMENT OF
THE CULTURE OF LIFE FOUNDATION
ON THE PASSING OF TERRI SCHIAVO

Contact: Mark Adams, 202-289-2500

"Almost all of America mourns the passing of Terri Schiavo who this day
has gone to God. We say "almost all of America" because we know there
are some who seemed to eagerly await and even hasten her painful death.
Terri Schiavo never made her wishes clear, that she would want her feeding
tube removed in this type of situation, yet an out-of-control state judge and
an unfeeling husband decided that she should starve to death. This is a
dark day for all of America."

---Austin Ruse, President, Culture of Life Foundation.

"Among those of religious conviction Christians and Jews will correctly
see the death of Terry Schiavo as yet another instance of social
failure.

The minimum requirements of a good society, a society characterized by
good governance and fellow feeling, include primarily care for the weak
and vulnerable. Our society failed to protect Terri Schiavo. By allowing
her, indeed causing her to starve to death, we showed again that our
society privileges abstractions like the "right to die" over human
bengs.
At some point, a society that increasingly opts for death over life may
find itself, in the coarse language applied to Terri Schiavo, in a
"permanent vegetative state."

---Dr. Joseph Capizzi, Fellow in Religion and Ethics, Culture of Life
Foundation, Associate Professor of Theology, Catholic University of
America.