Michael Schiavo is really something, isn't he? He's a sociopath or is that a psychopath?
Killing Terri Schiavo:
Where are defenders of women’s rights?
http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_showfast.html?article=52202
FOR THOSE who advocate killing Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged Florida woman whose husband is hell-bent on ending her life, we have a question. Why not just shoot her?
For that matter, why not stab her, slit her throat, or suffocate her with a pillow? What’s the difference? She’ll be no less dead if her husband does any of those things than if she starves to death after he removes her feeding tube.
But there is a difference, isn’t there?
Shooting leaves such a mess. So do stabbing and slashing. And we’ve all seen those movies where some poor victim grasps at the pillow or telephone cord in a vain struggle for one last breath before everything goes dark. Too gruesome.
But starving her to death, now there’s the ticket. Nothing to clean up, no tense struggle.
It takes about two weeks for a person to die once a feeding tube is removed. It is a slow, painful death. And if that person is as mentally aware as Terri Schiavo appears to be, it must be a most horrible way to go — knowing that someone you loved and trusted has consigned you to this abominable end.
Ah, but there are the liberal intellectuals and some notable members of the Democratic Party — the Party of Death — arguing that it’s no one else’s business if Michael Schiavo, Terri’s husband, wants to kill her.
These are the same people who claim that conservative opposition to abortion is motivated only by a desire to keep women down. Yet here is a woman who is unmistakably alive, whose husband desperately wants to kill her, and the so-called enemies of women are the only ones taking her side.
The National Organization for Women is AWOL on this case. The American Civil Liberties Union is actually working with Michael Schiavo to end Terri’s life.
Terri Schiavo might be a woman, and a disabled person, but she is one the so-called women’s and civil rights movements are perfectly willing to sacrifice on the altar of “choice.”
This is what happens to you in Florida if you do the same thing to an animal that they're doing to Terri.
828.13 Confinement of animals without sufficient food, water, or exercise; abandonment of animals.--
(1) As used in this section:
(a) "Abandon" means to forsake an animal entirely or to neglect or refuse to provide or perform the legal obligations for care and support of an animal by its owner.
(b) "Owner" includes any owner, custodian, or other person in charge of an animal.
(2) Whoever:
(a) Impounds or confines any animal in any place and fails to supply the animal during such confinement with a sufficient quantity of good and wholesome food and water,
(b) Keeps any animals in any enclosure without wholesome exercise and change of air, or
(c) Abandons to die any animal that is maimed, sick, infirm, or diseased,
is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or by a fine of not more than $5,000, or by both imprisonment and a fine.
(3) Any person who is the owner or possessor, or has charge or custody, of any animal who abandons such animal to suffer injury or malnutrition or abandons any animal in a street, road, or public place without providing for the care, sustenance, protection, and shelter of such animal is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or by a fine of not more than $5,000, or by both imprisonment and a fine.
http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=Ch0828/SEC13.HTM&Title=-%3E2004-%3ECh0828-%3ESection%2013#0828.13