[8mmMauser]

This commentary came from the Editor in Chief of the Virginia Informer, paper of record on campus...

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On September 13, the William and Mary student group Students for Life sponsored a lecture by Bobby Schindler, the brother of Terri Schindler Schiavo. Ms. Schiavo was the center of media uproar as a woman who had been living in a compromised neurological state since 1990 and passed away in March 2005 after the court ordered her feeding tube removed.

Schindler argued that the media attention and controversy surrounding his sister’s case suggested that it was a right to life case, but in reality, it was a case for people with disabilities. “The only difference between [Terri] and us today is that she needed to be fed with a feeding tube,” Schindler said. The media had reported that Terri was in a Persistent Vegetative State (PVS), a fact that Schindler disagrees with.

Schindler is against the diagnosis of PVS, saying that it was invented in order to legally remove food and drink from patients that could not feed themselves. Schindler says that the PVS diagnosis is completely subjective and cited data that demonstrated that PVS was misdiagnosed 50 percent of the time. In fact, in Terri’s case, many doctors believed that Terri was not in a PVS. Terri’s autopsy proved that her temporal lobes (which control emotion) had been intact.

“Why should we treat people with disabilities any differently?” Schindler asked, questioning why people in a PVS had no constitutional rights. America is heading down a “frightening path in the way we treat the disabled and elderly,” Schindler cautioned.

For more information, visit the Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation website, www.terrisfight.org

Terri Schiavo’s brother speaks on campus, against PVS diagnosis

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[8mmMauser]

In Oregon, the News-Register casts an image of dem candidate Wu, applying the Terri factor as part of his definition.

Wu is pro-choice, so he gets the expected high marks from the National Abortion Rights Action League and low marks from National Right to Life.

The political football of 2005 came in March, with Congress taking the unprecedented step of asking a federal court to ignore previous court rulings in the case of Terri Schiavo and side with parents to keep her on life support. Wu joined the majority in opposing the bill.

Wu's record in Congress detailed

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[floriduh voter]

Is the comic strip For Better of Worse getting ready to bioethic somebody or will it be recovery or a death by natural causes? It's a Canadian strip. Anybody been following it in your local paper?

A comic strip character just had a stroke and they are discussing if he'll ever recognize them again and it's pretty negative. I'm waiting for them to pepper right to die issues on their strip until the stroke patient is deceased. Maybe it's cheaper for health care providers and governments to change the meaning of stroke. They keep enlarging the pool of people to be forced out instead of treated it seems.

[mtbopfuyn]

Terri’s autopsy proved that her temporal lobes (which control emotion) had been intact.

Gee, any wonder she reacted negatively whenever hino was around.

[floriduh voter]

Marilyn Monroe murdered. DiMaggio widow breaks silence.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52493

[floriduh voter]

Please POST YOUR COMMENTS. (The stroke patient goes back 2 or 3 weeks. He's hanging in there but sounds like they are giving up...

Will this comic strip "off" their stroke patient? Comic Strip:

http://www.fborfw.com/strip_fix/

[Jezebelle]

I don't want to stray too far off-topic, but one of the problems supporting the killing of the disabled is a shortage of medical resources. One of the large tap roots growing that problem is the burden of illegal immigration and the poverty industry in general. The other problem is the expense, and its largest tap root is the malpractice lawsuit industry. But the philosophical reason for killing these people lies within far leftist thought that permeates bioethicists and a certain segment of practicing physicians. I would also suggest that we wouldn't be in this situation today if it had not been for the Roe v. Wade decision. It's clear to me that the cheapening and disposability of "inconvenient" life wrought by Roe is the most fundamental catalyst for the policies of death to the "useless."