Since Roe v. Wade, the very idea of killing the 'inconvenient' gets more and more palatable to a large segment of society. This is how the Germans were able to ignore the Final Soulution.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
you're right, now that i think of it. hey, her wife beater husband wanted her dead anyway, eh?
So now Freepers can post their "valued" opinions as BREAKING NEWS? I know Freepers think highly of themselves, but, come on.
Oh for the love of God. I'm just about as sick of this story as I am the Michael Jackson crap.
I like to think of this whole thing in, of all things, Star Trek terms. In Star Trek, as of the 23rd century, the World had suffered in the past through the Eugenics Wars, and the Eugenicists had been defeated. In the Star Trek scenario, there is an amazing capability to renew and reconstruct the human body, and curing, healing and improvement are the norm. There is no evidence of abortion or euthanasia. Contrast all this with the current apparent direction in the Western World. My only question is, are the future Eugenics Wars going to be part of the next great powers conflict, or, will they occur after it? I certainly believe that the Eugenics Wars are inevitable, if we do not change course soon.
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Check the actual court documents. He didn't order just the feeding tube to be removed, he ordered that ALL nutrition and hydration be ceased.
You can see the actual document HERE.
Here are the relevant portions:
ORDERED AND ADJUDGED that the Motion for Emergency Stay filed on February 15, 2005 is DENIED. It is furtherThis clearly is not the order for removal of "artificial life support" or even the removal of a feeding port - it is undeniably the order to starve Terri Schiavo to death. It is like ordering a plastic bag to be tightly tied over someone's head as their respirator is being unplugged - entirely denying them oxygen.ORDERED AND ADJUDGED that absent a stay from the appellate courts, the guardian, MICHAEL SCHIAVO, shall cause the removal of nutrition and hydration from the ward, THERESA SCHIAVO, at 1:00 p.m. on Friday, March 18, 2005
DONE AND ORDERED in Chambers, at Clearwater, Pinellas County, Florida, at 2:50 p.m. this 25 day of February, 2005.
SIGNED
GEORGE W. GREER
CIRCUIT JUDGE
More than anything else, the Terri Schindler story is the death of the mainstream (broadcast) media; they've failed completely in covering the landmark event of the year -- not because of the conventional drama of armies on the march, but because they have no language and emotion for communicating this story. It's not about ideology; it is about compassion. The story is not so much about Terri -- as it is about the different responses to the facts, and what people regard as the facts, from their own experiences and understanding of life. The subject herself is almost the perfect Rohrschach ink blot. It's ultimately not about Terri -- but about everybody else.
The best the mainstream media can come up with is their bogus polls, "As you may already know..." What a presumption; we don't know, and the more one knows, the less one could say that it is merely a matter of a right to die issue; it is a right to die versus a right to live -- and which should trump which. Apparently to a lot of liberals, the right to die should trump the right to live only in the case of human beings but should be inviolable in the case of anything else -- even trumping the right of any other species over that of a human, so confused are they, so determined to be "right." It's not about rights or who is right. It is about what is human.
The richness in the discussion of this is where the new media of interaction vastly surpasses their laughable polling feedback which is already so biased in their design and intent. The death of Terri Schindler was the death of the mainstream media to be a viable, credible part of American life. To the end, they insisted on telling the people, vastly more intelligent, informed and compassionate than they are, what to think and how empty it was to be them. They had nothing worth learning about -- to be a better human being.
If she was declared a lesbian suffering from AIDS, the left would move heavan and earth to keep her alive!
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This case points out that the State has the power of death over every citizen. It comes with sovereignty, it is sovereignty and its modern face is biopolitics.
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One of the reasons I remain suspicious of MS and his insistence that Terri die, is the report that he also plans to have her cremated. I do not know whether this is an accurate report and if he has ruled out an autopsy, but IMO there certainly needs to be one to dispel any suspicion of foul play. Given the many years that Terri has been physically incapacitated, there must be an enormous amount of medical information to be gotten for the benefit of others. It is sickening that Terri's life hinges on legal gymnastics which in turn are based on the recovered memory of a husband who has all but legally divorced her. MS has reportedly spent more money on lawyers trying to hasten her death than on the rehabilitation Terri was entitled to. I am open to hearing his explanation of events but that still wouldn't mean that Terri should now die when her parents are willing to take care of her regardless.