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... At the Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation annual meeting in 2009, Bobby Schindler, brother of Terri Schiavo and head of the Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation (recently renamed the Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network), spoke alongside other anti-abortion luminaries like former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline. Schindler has styled himself as an advocate for the disabled, reflecting a trend among "prolife" groups who have expanded their definition of "innocent life" to include the disabled, elders, the dying, as well as the "unborn" (or "pre-born," as anti-abortion groups have begun to say). "Saying Terri was in a Persistent Vegetative State [a medical diagnosis for minimal or no brain function] was dehumanizing," Schindler told the crowd, "like not using baby for the unborn. We've been primarily concerned with abortion but how many are being killed on a daily basis by euthanasia?" ...
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