Posted on 03/23/2005 9:46:22 AM PST by freeholland
Hey, Dems and other right-to-die advocates, listen up! Here are two pretty straightforward examples of when it is good to take a life and when it is bad to take a life:
Killing terrorists: Good...Killing healthy unborn human infants: Bad
Taking out Uday and Qusay Hussein: Good...Taking out Terri Schiavo: Bad
The presenting issue in this instance is the nasty fight over how Theresa Marie "Terri" Schiavo will spend her remaining time on earth. Husband Michael Schiavo long ago washed his hands of any interest but the $1.2 million he allegedly stands to receive when his all-but-comatose wife finally passes away. This bonanza is, as I understand it, the so-called "death benefit" resulting from a successful medical malpractice suit against the physicians at whose hands Terri allegedly suffered the grievous injury that has culminated in her current disability.
Displaying in his public appearances emotion and sympathy worthy of Scott Peterson with regard to his wife's condition, Terri's husband Mike has, for the moment, prevailed, even as the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals debates the future of the issue, be it noted.
The question I keep asking is this: Aside from the financial upside, why is Michael Schiavo so desperately intent on killing his wife? Indeed — given the fact that Terri Schiavo is, by the video evidence we're shown on television, very much alive and very much deserving to remain alive so long as she is fed intravenously — it seems to me that what he is doing is nothing less than committing murder.
In this case, legal arguments aside, Michael Schiavo's insistence on killing his wife goes against human decency, especially given that his wife's parents and family members have offered to care for their daughter/sister at their own expense, leaving her erstwhile husband free to go on living his life with the second family he has formed since his wife was struck down.
I know that all manner of courts have reviewed every available shred of evidence and heard every nuanced presentation of expert testimony during the course of the painful decade-plus battle Michael Schiavo and the forces of death have waged against his wife Terri and her family and supporters. And I'm aware that in this case the "law," absent an unequivocal statement of Terri Schiavo's wishes with regard to what actions should be taken were she were to be disabled as she is, recognizes the husband as the one who is vested with the power to decide whether his wife lives or dies.
This has created fertile ground for any number of spokespersons who support the leftist culture of death underlying, among other things, abortion on demand and the coddling of terrorists. Teddy ("Are there two p's in Chappaquiddick?") Kennedy recently spoke out forcefully in support of the court's being the final arbiter in the Schiavo case and others like it. To which I have to say, "Well, what the hell would you expect from this degenerate left-winger?"
Kennedy's Democratic Party, despite the fact that they remain, at least in the Massachusetts Senator's delusional worldview, "the party of a majority of Americans," were soundly trounced in the November, 2004, elections. Given their political loss of power in the wake of this outcome, the courts are the only remaining instrument for the perpetuation of the left's willful misinterpretation and misapplication of the wonderful vision set forth in our Constitution.
The ongoing judicial malfeasance of leftist/liberal judges is increasingly perpetrated in order to subvert democracy to the purposes of a socialist agenda which asserts, with its every word and action and policy, that the life of the individual is of no value, that life's only value consists in further collectively empowering the state's influence over decisions that rightly belong to the individual.
Although Terri Schiavo is not able to articulate her wishes in this case, a truly wise judge would have long ago ruled as the Biblical Solomon is said to have done when he suggested cutting in half an infant whose parental custody was in dispute. Solomon quickly recognized that the couple who agreed to his suggestion were not the infant's true parents. They failed Solomon's test in no small part because they were devoid of the humanity and protective instinct that blossoms in our hearts as the parents of a child.
The case of Terri Schiavo is categorically similar. Indeed, it seems impossible that — among all those who have presided over courtrooms in which the seemingly interminable battle to decide this woman's fate has been waged — there has not been a single judge that would rule with finality against Michael Schiavo on the grounds that his position simply violates all broadly-acknowledged standards of human decency. Schiavo has been given judicially-sanctioned leave to murder his wife by removing the feeding tubes that sustain her.
Terri Schiavo's parents, like the true parents of the child in the Solomon parable, would never consent to allowing their daughter to be murdered. Because they understand the sanctity of human life, because they, being parents, feel the revulsion that all of us feel at the very thought of a heartless, inhuman reprobate's having the power of life and death over any child, let alone our own child, it is Terri's parents, and Terri herself, to whom our hearts go out as this gut-wrenching human drama unfolds.
In the event that her life is not spared, I will take cold comfort in the backlash of outrage that must accrue against those who have come out in opposition to the courts' or the Congress's intervening to spare the life of Terri Schiavo. If we are not successful in saving this woman, no legal or political punishment will be too severe for those who have conspired to perpetrate her murder.
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We roast Lamb on Holy Thursday and partake after we come home in the evening after Mass and Eucharist Adoration.
Holy Week has become even more meaningful to me this year because of Terri. We're on school break so I've been able to make daily Mass over the past 3 days and offer up my prayers to the Schindler family.
God Bless you and your family. :-)
Easter Sunday..........
or Good Friday. Easter would be worse.
I am, however, with you. Welcome to Amerikan't.
I saw a 70 year old woman get down on her knees in front of a policeman and beg to give this woman water, Bible in hand.
This is a shameful day, and time.
IMHO, Prayers without action are vane. My prayer is that ppl who don't support Terri and take Holy Communion will have the elements turn to maggots in their hypocriticsl bellys. AMEN.
God bless you and your wife, and Godspeed.
You too! +
I am hoping that Christ will turn their hearts.
Blessings to you at this Holy time of year.
I have now skimmed the 11ths opinion.
Ther was one dissenter, but they deny relief.
They note with pride: "...While the position of our dissenting colleague has emotional appeal, we as judges must decide this case on the law."
This single statement belies their ignorance. First of all they imply the dissenter (Wilson) is NOT a judge, which is dumb to imply, espeically by persons who are paid to "think" and "use language", and two how about laws like "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness." Where is her right to "life" here? And how about the welfare of those not in the bed. How about "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
Ther are lots of laws we could invoke, but "Publication L. No. 109-3" (whatever that is) seems the trump card.
let's just hope for compassion at the top.
Terri Schiavo's parents, like the true parents of the child in the Solomon parable, would never consent to allowing their daughter to be murdered. Because they understand the sanctity of human life, because they, being parents, feel the revulsion that all of us feel at the very thought of a heartless, inhuman reprobate's having the power of life and death over any child, let alone our own child, it is Terri's parents, and Terri herself, to whom our hearts go out as this gut-wrenching human drama unfolds.
So true, thanks Jay.
So true...
I know...
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