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Jahi's Life Mattered
by Michelle Malkin
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Supreme Court Not Yet Safe from Radical dummycrats-Democrats
{ fedup.org } ~ Elections still matter if you want a Supreme Court that faithfully follows the Constitution... Don’t believe the hype claiming that Justice Kennedy’s resignation guarantees that a conservative majority is guaranteed for years to come regardless of the outcome of the 2018 and 2020 elections. The truth is that a conservative Supreme Court depends on holding a Republican majority in the Senate, and probably also reelecting President Trump in 2020. There is no guarantee that Trump’s nominee will be confirmed this year. Just one GOP defector could bring rejection and leave the seat open into next year – when dummycrats-Democrats hope to hold a Senate majority. That would allow them to vote down all Trump nominees unless he agrees to nominate someone chosen by the dummycrats- Democrats themselves. They would be happy to keep the seat open for the dummycrats-Democratic president they expect in 2021...
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scumbag-Dick Durbin: Blocking Trump's Supreme Court pick more
important than red state dummycrats-Dems getting re-elected
by Daniel Chaitin.
Socialist Protesters Confront Mitch McConnell Leaving Restaurant
by Scott MorefieldBizarre diplomatic 'sonic attacks' reaching epidemic proportions
{ wnd.com } ~ It started in the fall of 2016. Diplomats reported hearing loss and mild brain damage after hearing unusual and puzzling sounds at the U.S. Embassy in Cuba... But now it’s spreading to embassies in our countries, with nearly 200 people affected. The State Department is virtually mum, other than to characterize their suspicion as unknown “sonic attacks” targeted U.S. diplomats. Some of the strange sounds have been recorded and released to the public. The victims’ symptoms include “hearing loss, dizziness, tinnitus, balance problems, visual difficulties, headaches, fatigue, cognitive issues and sleeping problems. Recently, the Associated Press reported 26 Americans have been “medically confirmed” to have been injured in the wave of attacks. Diplomats who have served in at least seven cities in four countries have sought testing...
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Mueller WILL NOT Present Collusion Evidence At Manafort Trial
by Chuck RossJahi's Life Mattered
{ townhall.com } ~Amid all the raging political headlines and hyperventilating tweets of the Summer of Resistance, a searing ember of news stopped me in my tracks this week.
Jahi McMath has passed away.
I never had a chance to meet the young California teen, but her fight for life gripped me three years ago and was never far from my mind or heart -- especially as my own daughter, the same age as Jahi, battled her own health crisis.
Do you remember Jahi? Medical experts declared her "brain dead" after a routine tonsillectomy gone wrong. Children's Hospital Oakland pushed to have all life-sustaining medical treatment terminated; the professionals predicted quick deterioration. California declared Jahi legally "brain dead."
But Jahi's mother, professional nurse Latasha "Nailah" Winkfield, refused to accept their verdict. As a parent, caregiver and believer in Christ, Winkfield was compelled to protect her child. With the help of the pro-life Schiavo Foundation, Winkfield moved with her daughter to a long-term care facility in New Jersey.
Medical ethics scholar Wesley Smith visited Jahi with the Schiavo Foundation's Bobby Schindler 10 months ago and reported: "At the time of the tragedy, I believed ... that Jahi was, indeed, dead. But I now have strong doubts. It's nearly four years later, and Jahi's body still has not broken down...She has experienced no visible bodily decline ... Disabled is not dead."
Dr. Alan Shewmon, professor emeritus of pediatrics and neurology at the University of California, Los Angeles, reviewed nearly 50 videos of Jahi moving her fingers on command last year and wrote in a court declaration that Jahi was "a living, severely disabled young lady, who currently fulfills neither the standard diagnostic guidelines for brain death nor California's statutory definition of death."
And a team of Harvard researchers recently reported that over the past five years, Jahi was indeed growing, digested food, had menstrual cycles, healed wounds and fought off infections. "We would say that Jahi's parents were far from crazy in believing their daughter to still be biologically alive," Dr. Robert Truog, director of the Harvard Center for Bioethics, concluded.
The changed tune of many "experts" came too late for Jahi's family, which had been fighting in court to bring her back to California. After undergoing several surgeries for intestinal problems, Jahi succumbed to excessive bleeding and liver failure after an operation. Jahi will finally head home to Oakland this week, where the family's lawyer says her brain will be preserved for further study.
With all the roar these days of keeping families together, why is there so little media attention to the plight of American families of brain-injured children who've been forced to separate by medical elites making bright-line mortality judgments based on murky diagnostic criteria for what constitutes life?
Also suffering out of the selective media spotlight: Children with rare illnesses ripped from their homes in medical kidnappings by arrogant medical professionals and child welfare bureaucrats who scoff at parental sovereignty and autonomy.
Jahi's life and death inspired other families of disabled children to fight back.
Jahi's life and death raised awareness of patients' rights, living wills, durable powers of attorney, "do not resuscitate" orders, revocable trusts and advance directives.
Jahi's life and death resonated beyond ideology, race and class. I'll not forget the Instagram image of Jahi's mom clasping her daughter's hand at her hospital bedside -- an enduring symbol of hope, suffering, resilience and abiding love.
Jahi McMath mattered. She defied her California death certificate. She humbled the experts. She brought joy to her loved ones. Her heart and brain may have stopped, but the light she brought in her short time on earth will not be extinguished.
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