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Posted on 10/15/2003 2:45:35 PM PDT by Skooz
Edited on 04/13/2004 1:41:16 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
USA Today, like other media outlets, insist on saying Terri is "comatose." Note how the article says they are "letting her die," rather than starving her to death. Amazing.
(Excerpt) Read more at usatoday.com ...
ggreer@co.pinellas.fl.us
Another sad sign of the Bambification of the Republican party. It has become almost as preposterous as PETA.
SO9
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The poll is carefully worded and physically positioned to get "yes" votes. People always want to do what's right. Here, unless you read carefully, "WAS IT RIGHT" was the question and the "yes" -- positioned on top -- was the quick, instinctive, nice answer.
The question also diverted the real substance of the question (should Terri Schiavo be starved to death) to the trivial question of what "the judge" should "allow." Again, of course we presume the judge will do the right thing.
Had the question been phrased, "Was it wrong...," respondents would at least have had to think harder.
Had the question dropped the whole "right/wrong" wording and found more nearly neutral phrasing (not easy, to be sure), the vote should have reflected traditional American decency, generosity and moral values. It would have overwhelmingly rejected killing Terri Schiavo.
We Americans have always helped the poor, disabled and helpless. When someone is hurt, we pour out our hearts and money. When there is natural disaster in some foreign land, we send aid, and we do it by airlift. If someone is hungry, we feed him. If many are hungry, we set up soup kitchens and feed them all.
My daughter, a special ed teacher, has devoted her life to helping profoundly handicapped kids. Most of the children have had no hope of a normal life, but she helps anyway. We all would. We do NOT execute the weak and sick and hurt among us because they're inconvenient.
I also emailed Fox because its newreaders have used the word "coma" all day long!
Leni
This is not a "right to die" case. This is murder being committed by a husband via the apparatus of the state.
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| 2270 Human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception. From the first moment of his existence, a human being must be recognized as having the rights of a person - among which is the inviolable right of every innocent being to life.
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I can say the same of you
Do you have any proof, not gossip or hearsay, but proof to go with your accusation of murder?
So9
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Not necessary in the American Judicial System.
The husband is presumed innocent unless you have evidence to the contrary. He does not have to prove it.
The husband is presumed to be testifying truthfully about her wishes, unless impeached by evidence that he lies.
The entire onus of proof is on those who dispute his legal right to carry out his wifes wishes.
So9
Absent any proof of dishonesty capable of impeaching the husbands testimony, his word is all the proof our legal system requires.
You later required proof for the assertions of myself and others that her husband wishes her to die. You demand proof from others, but refuse to provide any for your statements.
I have no "proof," for my assertions, just overwhelming circumstantial evidence. Your position lacks even that.
Obviously your circumstantial evidence was not found to be overwhelming by a court of competent jurisdiction.
My position requires no proof other than the husbands word. In our system his word is true unless proven false.
So9
I am not missing the point, you are.
If the woman cannot speak coherently for herself, then her husband has that right.
If you don't like the law, work to change it, but don't bitch about it being fairly enforced.
And it is being fairly enforced.
So9
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