I never said that at all!
This was between Mrs. Schiavo and her husband. The government didn't have to get involved that way at all, but that the Schindlers insisted. I'd rather they have stayed out...or at least once they'd decided, let it rest at that.
But if I were in the condition Mrs. Schiavo were in, and nobody else would intervene and fulfil my wishes, then yes, I'd like the government to do so. I don't like the government to intervene unbidden and stomp rights, but to protect a person's rights and to allow them to be exercised, then that's a government's purpose.
Exactly my point - the government is not to be in the business of killing non-dying people - Terri, you, me - anyone. It is not the business of government to kill citizens.
And a parent has a little more claim on a human than the government. Michael could have turned her over to loving parents and been done with it. The whole point is there is a 50% chance she wanted to die. We should err on the side of life - not death.
And - I want to know how these laws are being put in place. I will not stand for euthanasists deciding when I must die, when my husband must die, when my children must die. They do not have the authority and are not entitled to take away the constitutional rights of me and my family.
PERIOD. And for any of you out there thinking this is no problem - wake up. There will always be somebody that eyes your "goods" and would find you worthless to live.
The government has no right to be in the killing business as that over-rides the constitutional protections of those being killed.