KEVORKIAN SPEECH PROTESTED

CitizenLink, CO
July 20 2007

Bobby Schindler, brother of the late Terri Schiavo, has launched a
petition drive to persuade the University of Florida (Gainesville) to
rescind its invitation to convicted killer Jack Kevorkian to speak on
campus Oct. 11.

"It is unacceptable for the University of Florida to give a platform
to Jack Kevorkian, a man who willfully helped take people’s lives,
some of whose only ailment was depression, and pay him $50,000 to
spread his violent message of ‘mercy killing’ to the students of the
University of Florida," Schindler’s petition states.

Schindler heads a nonprofit group called the Terri Schindler Schiavo
Foundation, named for his sister, who died of dehydration and
starvation after her feeding tube was removed by court order in 2005.

Pinellas County Judge George Greer, who issued the order, is a
University of Florida alumnus, having received his law degree there
in 1966.

Kevorkian, 79, was convicted of second-degree murder in 1998 and
sentenced to 10 to 25 years for the death of Thomas Youk, which was
shown on CBS News. He was granted parole in December 2006, after
promising not to assist in any more suicides. Book and movie deals
about Kevorkian’s life are reportedly in the works.