Didn't research much, did you?
Posted on 03/20/2005 9:03:19 AM PST by XR7
A note to the news media: Stop lying about Terri Schiavo!
I have a message for the media: Stop, already! Just stop it!!Stop saying that Terri Schiavo is "a brain-dead woman being kept alive solely on life support." She is not. She's a disabled Florida woman, who is now being murdered by medical personnel who have removed her feeding tube.
Aaarghh!!! Tell the truth! Stop saying this is about her right to die. Watch closely at the words coming out of this keyboard: T-E-L-L T-H-E T-R-U-T-H.
Terri Schiavo is not at all comatose. She is not at all on life support. She does not have a breathing tube or a respirator. She simply has been receiving her food and water — something everyone in existence needs to survive — through a tube.
What's more, though she is disabled, she probably could eat by herself — it's just too much trouble for hospital personnel to try to feed her by hand.
That's the key element here: Terri is inconvenient. She's especially inconvenient to her husband, Michael, for several reasons — not the least of which is that he's living with another woman and has children by her. Can anyone seriously trust he is operating in her best interest?
Tell the truth. The case of Terri Schiavo doesn't represent the right to die. It represents the right to live.
When murderers are sentenced to death, it comes as a result of a jury or judge passing sentence on a defendant who is sitting before them. One who has had the right to make a defense, to call witnesses and to testify for themselves, if they so choose.
But Terri Schiavo, this woman who has been incapacitated for more than a decade, has never had the right to do any of that. What's more, Judge George W. Greer, the Florida judge who seems bent on ending her life — who has more than once ordered her food and water removed — has never even seen Terri Schiavo in person.
Never seen her in person! It is inconceivable that a judge would pass judgment on a felon without ever having seen the defendant.
But then, that's the point, isn't it? If I am to believe the mainstream media — either this is about Terri's "right to die" or she, in some sense, deserves to die. After all, she's got no "quality of life," right?
Wrong. Terri is not a criminal defendant. She committed no crime. She is innocent. Her sole "crime" — and I say that with all the irony I can muster — is that she is disabled.
If anything, this case is about the rights of the disabled.
Make no mistake, "quality of life" and comfort are not the prime considerations for living, any more than parenting is about spending "quality time" with kids. Forget quality time. If you don't spend "quantity time" with children, that's when they appear to suffer, if we are to believe the research. And if a disabled person is going to be killed because he or she is "inconvenient," let's stop talking about his or her quality of life. The quality of life while being starved and dehydrated to death is nonexistent.
Let's talk about the death process for Terri if her feeding tube is not reinserted. After three or four days, she will have lost weight and will have begun to lose normal body secretions. Her mouth will begin to look dry and her eyes will appear sunken. She will look thinner because her body tissues will have lost fluid. Her heart rate will gradually go up, and her blood pressure will gradually go down.
Five to 10 days from now, her alertness will decrease markedly. Breathing will become irregular with periods of very fast and then very slow breathing.
From day 10 until death — first coma, then kidney function will decline and toxins will begin accumulating in her body. Those toxins will cause her respiratory muscles to fail. Then multiple organ systems will begin to fail from lack of nutrition.
Then, and only then, she will die.
Sure. You're right, mainstream media. That's exactly what Terri has a "right" to. That's exactly what she would have wanted.
Excuse me while I vomit.
LINK to article: http://family.org/cforum/fnif/commentary/a0035918.cfm
Couldnt have put it better myself.
bttt
If I had to live like you I would probably beg for death but I still wouldn't want to starve or die of thirst.
What'samatta Newby, your previous screen name not hiding your identity sufficiently?
How about allowing her to have physical therapy - that might improve her life - but has been, supposedly, denied per orders of her husband.
The media has also been having people state that she will be given medicine to prevent her feeling any pain. Now, why would they need to give pain medication to a 'vegetable'?
wow... do you really believe the lies you have been spoon fed? where do you get this crap? how about some truth or is that too much for you to handle?
You are welcome! It doesn't take a rocket scientist (or any doctorate degree) to see that she's aware of her surroundings.
That medication will be morphine and it will hasten her demise.
Then maybe it's not such a good idea for Terri, either.
Didn't research much, did you?
Previous screen name?? Hidden identities? You sound like a left wing liberal conspiracy theorist.
You sign up today and immediately jump into the Terri issue on the side of her adulterous, abusive husband. And I call you on it so you try this accusation of left wing liberal conspiracy theorist? Bwahahahaa ... not even a good try. Wanna try again?
When any disabled person in this country has a basic need removed just because they're disabled. This is a PRO-LIFE forum.
um... no. The Constitution does no such thing.
C'mon, now, it was a pathetic letter. Almost anybody could write and think better than that.
Just keep your eye on the ball. Think of all the reasons you should be admired for your far-sighted social concerns, your compassion, and the fine reasons you have for cruelly murdering a disabled woman.
Daylate-dollarshort?
That would be my gues. They were outed and need to hide.
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