It is a common misconception that pro-lifers focus strictly on abortion issues.

Actually, pro-life activism involves working toward a culture in which all human life is respected from conception until natural death.

Wednesday, Bobby Schindler will be visiting campus to speak on behalf of his late sister, Terri Schiavo.

His presentation will focus on aspects of the pro-life movement other than abortion: opposition to the euthanasia movement and promotion of a culture that cherishes its disabled and elderly.

Schindler has been speaking frequently throughout the country to demonstrate how the United States should protect the sanctity of life.

His inspiration for doing so was the Florida Supreme Court case of his sister, Terri, who was removed from her feeding tube in 2005.

Schindler is convinced that the euthanasia movement has led to a new classification of brain-damaged patients as terminal.

This, in turn, has led to a definition of their care as "artificial life support" and an attitude which questions their qualities of life without recognizing the sanctity of their lives.

"It still astonishes me that we fought for 15 years because we simply wanted to bring her home to take care of her," Schindler has said. "Society has taken a monumental shift to accept a quality of life standard. … Thousands have been killed. It's happening every day."

Marquette University Students for Life welcomes anyone who wishes to hear Schindler speak to come to Marquette Hall Room 100 on Wednesday at 8 p.m.

It may be out of curiosity, support or opposition that you hear Schindler speak, but please come with an open mind.

The case of Schiavo was a landmark case and one which many of us followed.

Schindler will be able to offer the perspective of someone who loved Terri as a complete human being even in her state of required assistance.

Diamond is a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences and treasurer of Marquette University Students for Life.