Celebrities Chuck Norris & Jennifer O’Neill Plead for Terri Schiavo’s Life
The Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation today announced that celebrities Chuck Norris and Jennifer O’Neill have issued a fervent plea to the powers that be to save Terri Schiavo's life.
(PRWEB) March 27, 2005 -- The Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation (www.terrisfight.org) today
announced that celebrities Chuck Norris and Jennifer O’Neill have joined Mel
Gibson, Patricia Heaton, Randy Travis and Pat Boone in issuing strong statements
against the taking of Terri Schiavo’s life, and fervently pleading to reinsert
Terri’s feeding tube.
Chuck Norris, the action film and television star
known for his long-running CBS television series, "Walker, Texas Ranger" and for
being a six-time undefeated World Professional Middle Weight Karate Champion,
together with his wife Gena Norris issued a statement saying, “We are deeply
grieved at what is happening to Terri.”
The statement said, “We as the
people are suppose to protect those that are weaker, not dispose of them because
of it. We are wondering why Terri's husband feels he should have any right to
make decisions on her behalf, due to the fact that he basically abandoned her
for another woman and new life. Are not the wedding vows we make meant to be a
promise and not to be broken, even in times of sickness? If Terri's husband has
chosen to start a new life then so be it, but at that moment he no longer should
have a say regarding her well being. She has a loving family that will take care
of and look after her. His rights should be null and void. We believe that Terri
has a right to life and no one other than God should have a right to decide when
to end it.”
Actress Jennifer O'Neill, known for the role of "Dorothy" in
the movie Summer of '42 and for being a model and spokesperson for Cover Girl,
said, “The taking of Terry Schiavo’s life should be considered unconscionable to
rational thinking people. This is a human being with every right to continue
life as any person on this planet. I strongly urge the re-insertion of her
feeding tube to allow her to live out her life with some respect and dignity,
not to be starved to death in front of the entire world's eyes by 21st century
America.”
The Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation is the official
organization responsible for speaking on behalf of the Schindler family, and
thanks Chuck and Gena Norris and Jennifer O’Neill for speaking up for Terri
Schiavo. For more information, please visit the foundation’s website at www.terrisfight.org. Press
inquiries should be directed to publicist Anne Sharp (www.annesharp.com) at (818)
994-2309.
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