Besides being utterly awful, this is dangerous precedent to set. What about Jerry's kids? Can we stop feeding them? What about an infant with Down's Syndrome. Where's NOW?
Kudos to NewsMax to have the gutso to call Bush on it too, instead of just being a mouthpiece of the Republican party.
What a depraved state we have come to! The religious leaders, the political leaders, the business leaders, and the social leaders of Florida and this country remain largely silent. The media, when they say anything, push the lie that she is comatose and that it is a great tragedy. They don't tell the people that she has NEVER, NEVER been given the opportunity to communicate with a chalkboard or letters. She has not been able to eat or drink with a spoon because of legal maneuverings.
We are not so different from Nazi Germany. Hitler was killing all the weak and infirm and a whole class of people and those that opposed him. It has taken the US 30 years, so far, to accomplish what Hitler did in a short time. But we are marching right along that path. We started with the weak. Now we are attacking the infirm. According to what I have read in the last week, this is a widespread phenomena. Very routine in some hospitals. Which class of people do you imagine will be targeted for extermination in this great and horrible plan of destruction a few years hence?
Do you really want an answer, or is that just a rhetorical question?
Right now, the liberal and middle parts of the spectrum see a woman who has been in a vegatative state for more than a dozen years. They imagine the difficulty this puts on her loved ones, and wish to see the suffering of all concerned ended. When I saw pictures of Ms. Schiavo, I told my wife, right in front of her mother and her daughter, "If I ever get half that brain dead, pull my plug." I guess I need to find a way to put that in writing. Of course, at the age of 47, I feel that need more acutely than I did when I was in my twenties.
Some people on these Schiavo threads have suggested ulterior motives for the husband wishing to end his wife's vegetative state. Those suspicions have not translated into hard evidence that might well have been picked up by the news media. Everybody can understand why Scott Peterson might have wanted to off his wife, but its harder to believe that a super-selfish person would set themselves up for thirteen years of hospital hell just for a few bucks, or an affair.
Disagree with me if you want, but that's my answer to your question.