Washington, D.C. (08 April 2010) – American Life League is encouraging pro-lifers to support the Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation’s Life and Hope Concert April 11 in Indianapolis, Indiana, in the face of incessant media attacks on the family and memory of Terri.The concert will support education and activism for an end to discrimination against brain damaged persons – the most recent of which was a disturbing episode of Fox’s “Family Guy” which included song lyrics such as “Terri Schiavo is kinda alive-o” and “(she’s) the most expensive plant you’ll ever see.”
“This dehumanization of Terri is the fruit of a sick culture that would place a price tag on her head and condemn her to death for her disabilities,” said Jim Sedlak, vice president of American Life League. “We are proud to stand with Terri’s Foundation in the fight for recognition of all human beings – especially the preborn, disabled and elderly – as human persons deserving respect and human rights.”
The Indianapolis concert will take place at the Murat Theater with country music heavyweights Randy Travis and Colin Ray.
The event will mark five years since Terri’s death by dehydration in Pinellas Park, Florida. Since Terri’s court-ordered murder, her family has embarked on a mission to help other victims of disability dehumanization.
“The entertainment czars in the culture of death are busy marking Terri’s death with sick comedy routines,” Sedlak said, “but pro-lifers and personhood advocates will have the opportunity in Indianapolis to be a visible sign of contradiction – a visible reminder that Terri was never a ‘vegetable.’ She was a human person right to her final breath and we will not allow her unjust death to be in vain.”
American Life League was cofounded in 1979 by Judie Brown. It is the largest grassroots Catholic pro-life organization in the United States and is committed to the protection of all innocent human beings from the moment of creation to death. For more information or press inquiries, please contact Katie Walker at 540.659.4942.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
- Life & Hope Concert: Terri Schindler Schiavo Life & Hope Concert http://www.lifeandhopeconcert.org/
- St. Petersburg Times: Terri Schiavo’s family is upset over ‘Family Guy’ pardoy (25 March 2010) http://www.tampabay.com/features/media/terri-schiavos-family-is-upset-over-family-guy-parody/1082648
- 10Connects.com: Family of Terri Shiavo calls for FOX to end “The Family Guy” after parody (25 March 2010) http://www.wtsp.com/news/mostpop/story.aspx?storyid=128278&provider=top
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