Posted on 03/31/2005 8:26:20 AM PST by stylin_geek
There was an honest, forthright case for ending the life of Terri Schiavo. It was that her life no longer had any value, for herself or others, and that ending it — the quicker the better — would spare everyone misery. We disagree with that view, holding it wiser to stick with the Judeo-Christian tradition on the sanctity of innocent life. But the people who made this case deserve some credit for straightforwardness.
But while the public may have agreed with the removal of Schiavo's feeding and hydration tube, apparently there are limits to the public's willingness to tolerate euthanasia — and apparently its defenders recognized these limits. So we saw euphemism after euphemism deployed to cloud the issues.
Perhaps chief among these was the fiction that we were "letting her die." On March 18, Schiavo was in no medical danger of death. She was profoundly brain-damaged (although just how profoundly remains unknown), but she was not in a coma or on a respirator. She was not being kept alive by artificial means, any more than small children are kept alive by artificial means when their parents feed them. Her body was functioning, there is some reason to believe she was minimally conscious, and she was responsive to stimuli (it's been reported she was actually being administered pain medication). She had devoted parents and siblings who were willing to care for her. She could easily have gone on in these conditions for many years. She was not close to dying. For death to arrive, she would have to be killed.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
She was not close to dying. For death to arrive, she would have to be killed.
And so it was.
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The thing that infuriates me most about the death cultists is the fact they are okay with this kind of death, rather than admit a bullet to the head guarantees the same outcome, with far less suffering.
But no, "letting her slip away gradually" allowed them to rationalize the ugly reality of her death. A death that qualifies as torture, by any standard of measurement.
Which begs the question, if someone would have shot Terri during this period of time, would they have been tried for murder?
They call themselves "Progressives." They use totalitarian turn-speak:
"Letting her die" is just another way to say they supported
"The Final Solution" for "The Terri Question."
Complete with concentration camp guards preventing anyone from saving her.
I hear your sentiment and agree mostly. I am not convinced Jesse can influence anyone...anymore. At least in a positive way.
Useless eaters: disability as genocidal marker in Nazi Germany
How unbearable the torture to her mother, remembering giving birth to this child, re-hearing her first cry, recalling events from her school days, sharing the glow of her child's triumphs, only to have to witness her slow dehydration murder and be forbidden to give her a drop of water.
Remember, political calculation works both ways. He may have long known what the right thing to do was, but he hesitated because of the possible harm to him, politically.
If you run down the list of people who think this whole thing is a travesty, you'll probably think He** has frozen over, because they are people you would never expect to agree with.
I think the libs see this as just a really, really late term abortion. /sarcasm
In all honesty, it's the door opening just a teeny, tiny little bit further to desensitize people to the Culture of Death. If Life has no value, then abortion and euthanasia are no big deals. Battle won.
I think a lot of people did not speak up or act sooner out of faith that our justice system would produce justice. A sleeping giant is awakening.
Diana, the scary thing is, I don't think your remark really should be construed as sarcastic, because it is a little to close to the truth.
I mean, if you read some of the pro death stuff about Terri, she's nothing more than an "unviable tissue mass."
I pray, I sincerely pray that you are right.
Yes, excellent article. Of course, none of us need worry, right? They wouldn't think of trying to get away with this again, would they?
Lord, help our country to wake up to the evil that has permeated our glorious shores, plains and hills. May we realize the lateness of the hour we live in and pray to turn back this evil.
Yes, because shooting her does not preserve her dignity in the way that slow, public starvation does.
That's what was going through my head, when at first I counseled patience. I just woke up to the fact that it wasn't going to happen a little earlier than some others.
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