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It is time this issue is recognized about the right to life for the disabled in America, and I applaud this article for it's clarity. The Terri Schiavo case is about disability, and the rights of disabled people to live, regardless of elitist attempts to re-write the definition of "life".

Terri Schiavo is alive. She never left a written statement asking for death. Only her husband, who has a mistress, and his Attorney say she should die; they stand to gain monetarily from her death.

This, above all else, the about the right to choose - but whose right is it to choose life, or choose death for anyone?

but whose right is it to choose life, or choose death for anyone?

If the person can't make this choice, then the law should always "err" on the side of life.

Michael Schiavo is a corrupt twit who stands to benefit by his wife's death. His attorney is a pro-death freak who is giving the entire "hospice" concept a bad name. Neither of these people should have anything to do with this decision - but they are the ones who control it.

I am hoping that what will come out of this is a system of local (state) laws weighted on the side of life. Did anybody hear the woman interviewed on NPR, of all places, who had been in a "vegetative state" for years but could hear them discussing how to kill her? Every time she tried to speak or wave her arms, they announced that she was having random nervous impulses and gave her drugs to quiet her down. And then one day she woke up - fortunately just before they were about to kill her.

Mistakes are always made, but they should be made on the side of life.

The Terri Schiavo case is about disability, and the rights of disabled people to live, regardless of elitist attempts to re-write the definition of "life".

Yes, this is another attempt to change the definition of human life. Three decades ago the Supreme Court removed the unborn from the human race and abortion is now just a choice to be made with no consideration of a human life being lost.

Now the courts are attempting to remove the disabled who cannot speak for themselves. If you don't have the ability to communicate you no longer have rights and the court can decide if your life is worth living.