A Woman's Life Versus an Inept Press (Nat Hentoff on Terri Schiavo)

The Village Voice ^ | November 6th, 2003 2:00 PM | Nat Hentoff

[Askel5]

Trust me ... he's got plenty of articles to back up my assertion. Truly a magnificent thing to see a man of conscience unafraid to break ranks on such a critical issue as abortion.

No "clever compromises" for Henthoff ...

May not agree with him on all issues but he certainly has my respect and admiration on this, the only essential one.

[sfRummygirl]

Wow. Why is he one of the only normal lefties?

[JoeFromSidney]

Did he have a grounds for not supporting it? [the Second Amendment]

None offered. It just wasn't on his radar.

[summer]

bttt to your post #2. That NYT editorial he mentions was incredibly cold-hearted and factually incorrect. Did they rehire Jayson Blair???

[mh]

Trust me - I know - Nat Hentoff supports the right to bear arms.

[45Auto]

Can you cite an article that he has published to that effect?

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

I have covered highly visible, dramatic "right to die" cases—including those of Karen Ann Quinlan and Nancy Cruzan

From google:

Karen Ann Quinlan was the first modern icon of the right-to-die debate. The 21-year-old Quinlan collapsed after swallowing alcohol and tranquilizers at a party in 1975. Doctors saved her life, but she suffered brain damage and lapsed into a "persistent vegetative state." Her family waged a much-publicized legal battle for the right to remove her life support machinery. They succeeded, but in a final twist Quinlan kept breathing after the respirator was unplugged. She remained in a coma for almost 10 years in a New Jersey nursing home until her 1985 death.

Like Karen Ann Quinlan, Nancy Cruzan became a public figure after entering a "persistent vegetative state." A 1983 auto accident left Cruzan permanently unconscious and without any higher brain function, kept alive only by a feeding tube and steady medical care. Cruzan's family waged a legal battle to have her feeding tube removed; the case went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled that the Cruzans had not provided "clear and convincing evidence" that Nancy Cruzan did not wish to have her life artificially preserved. The Cruzans later presented such evidence to the Missouri courts, which ruled in their favor in late 1990. The Cruzans stopped feeding Nancy in December of 1990, and she died later the same month.

[headsonpikes]

The courageous Mr. Hentoff is America's Orwell - an intellectually honest leftist.

They only come in ones.

[Dante3]

Why was Terri denied Communion?

[paltz]

BTT...old article still applies.