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Euthanasia for the disabled?
Is food—no matter how it is delivered—artificial life support? Ought someone who is responsive to her environment and who has family and other people willing and eager to take care of her be deprived of food by a court of law?
Well, they’re about to do that to Teri Schiavo. The court maintains its right to just take away her food and water for no other reason than that she is an inconvenience to her “husband” [ yeah, the one already living and having kids with another woman.] In one of the sickest mis-uses of the principles of Catholicism since the Inquisition, this fool seems to think that he cannot move on and properly marry the mother of his children unless he is widowed, not divorced. So surely it would be better to cause Teri’s murder than to divorce her. [may this fella roast in his own separate Hell...]
Oops. Seems like even the Pope disagrees.
Religious matters aside, what I find truly terrifying is the eagerness of this particular court to go ahead and kill someone who cannot speak for herself, and whose entire family is willing and eager to provide her continued care. The court is taking the side of the man who took all the money awarded him for the specific purpose of medical rehabilitation of his wife and spent it on legal fees seeking a judgment to get her killed.
How might that precedent effect you, me, our parents, our children? Will we allow our State to kill sick people? Will we allow our State to kill sick people by the inhumane method of thirst and starvation?
Will we allow our State to disabled people?
For more information see Teri’s Fight.org
ThanQ! Mo
i do not have an opinion on whether or not she should be killed. there are interesting aguments from both sides, and i would have to do more research to formulate an opinion. i do have the opinion, however, that if she is killed, it should be with drugs instead of removing the feeding tube. removing the feeding tube seems much more gruesome and potentially cruel than an instant silent chemical death.
Posted by on 02/13/05 at 09:52 PMThink it through a little, Bassett. If she would be aware of the gruesomeness and pain of death by thirst and starvation—then <i>whyinhell would someone kill her?!?
Posted by Claire on 02/15/05 at 09:19 AM
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