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socialismisinsidious: "On our local news last night..there was a woman who was being interviewed b/c she runs an animal shelter and a starving dog had been brought in....she was crying, wiping away tears! b/c she had never seen a dog "in such bad shape before" this was after they did a piece on Terri about how "she wasn't in pain" blah, blah... the irony lost..."

Exactly:

Why Levin's Book Scares the Left March 24, 2005
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com

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.....CALLER: "Listen, I want to talk to you about this Terri Schiavo thing and what I think is a great cultural disconnect here, and part of the reason why so many otherwise common-sense Americans are calling in and blithering, as you say, and that is that anyone over a certain age, say 30, you know, remembers when this whole "right-to-die," "death-with-dignity" thing got going, and it was all about allowing terminally ill patients who were long past their natural life span, we were torturing them by keeping them alive, yada yada yada -- and now we are here 20, 25 years on, and we're talking about starving a woman to death simply because, you know, her presence here has become inconvenient, and what I challenge the media of America to do is to get in there and insist that we get some current video of this woman, with what you just said notwithstanding, and I think it would go a long way towards informing the American public that that's not what we're talking about here, we're talking about --

RUSH: My point -- you go get the video if you want. I'm not suggesting you don't. All I was saying was the video is irrelevant to me. What the video shows is not relevant. I mean, if it showed that she's talking, of course, and swallowing and this sort of thing, I'm not saying I wouldn't be moved by it, but I don't need a video to have my belief here.

I don't need video. I don't need it. I'm not looking at it on the same terms these people are. I'm not trying to prove this woman's worthless. I'm not trying to prove that she has no right to live. I'm not trying to prove to anybody that I think she is so far gone or so worthless that we ought to kill her for our own sakes. I don't want to go there. That's not my point in this.

I'm trying to discuss the whole issue on the basis of the sanctity of life, and if hers isn't worth diddly-squat then someday ours isn't going to be. Yours isn't going to be.

You just wait till somebody wants to get rid of you for whatever reason. These things have ramifications down the road.

You just said it: This movement's been going on for 30 years, and where is it headed? This is not the end of it.

We're not solving a problem here. We're prolonging one and we are exacerbating one.

Now, if there were a living will here and if she had said without question that she didn't want to live this way, then this wouldn't even be a story. It wouldn't even be an issue.

If her husband... Look it, we're told she can't feel; she's in a vegetative state, then why does it matter whether this is a painless death?

Why does it matter whether there's euphoria? If she's a vegetable, she won't know any of that. Why do you have to tell us that this woman is going to be in a euphoric state? "It's going to be peaceful. It's going to be dignified. She'll feel nothing!" She can't feel anything anyway! According to all of you, she's a vegetable! Why do you tell us all this?

You must be concerned she's feeling something, and you don't want us to be upset, but you're contradicting yourselves left and right.

On the one hand she's a vegetable; she's worthless. Then you have to tell us she won't feel anything. It's peaceful and she's in a euphoric state and all this. If she doesn't feel anything, if she's a vegetable, and if her life inconveniences no one -- and it won't because her parents have said that they're willing to take it over -- all her husband would have to do is say, "You know what, Mr. and Mrs. Schindler? She's yours."

He won't do that and he won't do it because he's on record in court as saying she told him. He can't back out of this now. But that would be a bit of a solution to it. Look at this. "The Terri Schiavo drama has focused renewed attention to the euthanasia law in the Netherlands, and the Dutch ambassador to the US disputes assertions that Dutch euthanasia guidelines have put his country on a slippery slope towards state assisted murder. 'At least we have enabled by a debate in our parliament to nail down our approach. We consider that a strong point on our part.'" So he came to America, he defended the Dutch euthanasia law and started to lecture us on killing innocent people. That's where it's headed, so, you know, made the bed, live in it.

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