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http://www.chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=13435
Okay, Let's Talk About Terri Schiavo, Again
Written by J. B. Williams
Monday, March 07, 2005
On February 24, a few days before a Florida judge issued Terri Schiavo a stay of execution until March 18, I wrote for the first time on a subject that I admittedly knew little about in a piece titled Okay… I’ll talk About Terri Schiavo… Once!
As I stated in that piece, I was writing in response to reader mail asking me to take a position on a national debate that I had spent little time researching. Both before and since, I have been inundated with mail from folks on both sides of the debate, most of whom knew little more about the matter. Many of them knew even less than I did.
The purpose of my piece was to first flush out the real facts for my own benefit, second to point out how little people knew about the topic despite their emotionally charged rantings, and last to point out the shortcomings of our judiciary process in such a matter
In short, the more I learned about this case, the more amazed I became that there even was a case, and that any court would even consider denying Terri simple basic nourishment, for any reason, regardless of her husband’s motives.
It became very clear to me that we are not talking about euthanasia, or assisted death by medical procedure. It became clear that we are not even talking about letting God decide her fate by unplugging her from life support keeping her heart pumping, her lungs breathing, and her kidneys functioning.
We are talking about murder by starvation, plain and simple. Terri’s husband no longer has any use for Terri. She is no longer the young vibrant carefree model he once pledged his life to. He has found another to fill that void in his life and Terri is standing in his way of personal happiness, so in his mind, it is time for her to die.
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