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To: Edward Watson; HMFIC; justshutupandtakeit; William Terrell
Excellent opinion from the WSJ. I imagine you four wouldn't agree with any of it, but I'll post it for your consideration.

Regards


"What kind of husband is Michael Schiavo?
http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110006451

"According to news reports, Mr. Schiavo lives with a woman named Jodi Centonze, and they have two children together. Surely any court would consider this prima facie evidence of adultery. And this is no mere fling; a sympathetic 2003 profile in the Orlando Sentinel described Centonze as Mr. Schiavo's "fangée." Mr. Schiavo, in other words, has virtually remarried. Short of outright bigamy, his relationship with Centonze is as thoroughgoing a violation of his marriage vows as it is possible to imagine.

The point here is not to castigate Mr. Schiavo for behaving badly. It would require a heroic degree of self-sacrifice for a man to forgo love and sex in order to remain faithful to an incapacitated wife, and it would be unreasonable to hold an ordinary man to a heroic standard.

But it is equally unreasonable to let Mr. Schiavo have it both ways. If he wishes to assert his marital authority to do his wife in, the least society can expect in return is that he refrain from making a mockery of his marital obligations. The grimmest irony in this tragic case is that those who want Terri Schiavo dead are resting their argument on the fiction that her marriage is still alive."


346 posted on 03/21/2005 10:45:32 AM PST by FBD ("A nation without borders is not a nation." -- Ronald Reagan)
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To: FBD

I don't see how any of that is relevent to the liquified cerebral cortex of Terri or the fact she will die once the tube is gone or that she will never be anything but irretrievable.


542 posted on 03/21/2005 2:03:20 PM PST by justshutupandtakeit (Public Enemy #1, the RATmedia.)
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