Two years ago, during my coverage of the Terri Schiavo case, I quoted her father, Bob Schindler, who turned out to be prophetic as to his daughter's ultimate fate: "We pay great lip service in this country to disability rights, but as the degree of a person's disability increases, the level of protection that person receives decreases."
1 posted on
05/02/2005 1:43:49 AM PDT by
BykrBayb
To: PhilDragoo; Future Useless Eater; Ohioan from Florida; Wampus SC
2 posted on
05/02/2005 1:47:48 AM PDT by
BykrBayb
(Impeach Judge Greer - In memory of Terri Schindler <strike>Schiavo</strike> - www.terrisfight.org)
To: BykrBayb
Let us not allow Terri's death to mean nothing. If her example leads to increased protections for the disabled, then we will have achieved something good through her tragedy.
4 posted on
05/02/2005 3:33:06 AM PDT by
exDemMom
(Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
To: BykrBayb
The advancing Culture Of Death. Its easier to kill someone who's not young, healthy, or beautiful. They're a financial burden and when they're in a coma, they're not sentient. So a rationale has been created to kill people that don't look like society's image of a person. The disabled fall into that category. People think Terri Schiavo's case was unique but I prefer to think of it as a bellweather on society's attitudes to the least among us.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
6 posted on
05/02/2005 4:50:03 AM PDT by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: BykrBayb
...steadily advancing culture of death.
9 posted on
05/02/2005 6:00:39 AM PDT by
PGalt
(good article - thanks)
To: BykrBayb
When others get to decide whose life is worth living and whose is not, it means big trouble. We're all in trouble.
16 posted on
05/05/2005 8:14:17 PM PDT by
Saundra Duffy
(Terri Schindler was murdered - IMPEACH JUDGE GREER!!!)
To: BykrBayb
As bad as it seems, the idea of inherent worth is only good until the bills come due.
19 posted on
05/05/2005 8:27:28 PM PDT by
Old Professer
(As darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of good; innocence is blind.)
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