Posted on 01/25/2005 9:47:33 AM PST by amdgmary
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The weak, the halt, the lame and the elderly. I'm wondering how many boomer liberals are beginning to have second thoughts about euthanasia wondering if their disaffected children would be only too happy to give them the needle.
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I recall when the euthanasia issue came to a head earlier in '94 when the Supremes struck it down. The disability movement came out in force and a great many editorials warned us to "follow the money," that a great many disabled and chronically ill people might one day wake up to find that their health plan or HMO would only cover the cost of a lethal injection as treatment for their condition...
Not yet. Give them about ten years when maybe they've started to get a glance of their mortality.
I think I've come upon a 'generation' label for the boomer liberals.
Generation Death.
Bump for an excellent commentary by Mr. Schindler.
Good editorial by Mr. Schindler.
Now the merchants of death have expanded their range. They are coming after not only the unborn, but the "born-but-something-else-is-wrong-with-them" group. That "something else is wrong" gives an awful lot of leeway for outside agencies to put their stamp of life or death on an individual.
I have posted on related threads (abortion) the belief that when we begin to impose narrow definitions of one sort or another on what we call "human life", or "personhood", the result can only be measureless destruction. In our generation we have seen the consequences of this, a holocaust of proportions only dreamed of by the Nazis in their years of relentless and methodical madness. Only by recognizing the unbroken sweep of human existence, from conception through (natural) death, will the Culture of Death be supplanted by one wherein human life is protected and cherished.
...a holocaust of proportions only dreamed of by the Nazis in their years of relentless and methodical madness.
We're seeing that in the land of windmills and hash bars even now.
Seems like the law has had every last opportunity to do right by Terri, and has failed every time. Personally, if I get the opportunity to be teargassed for objecting to these failures, I'd consider it an honor.
She, or her body if you prefer, is clearly caught between life and death here. Starving her can't be moral.
ER is going to have an episode soon where the viewer will be a patient unable to communicate.
Can a person who is "brain dead" smile at her parents, laugh at her father's jokes, respond to a nurses command? This doesn't sound like the actions of a brain dead person.
This is the same view that the court has taken. But she's not brain dead. Take a few minutes to visit the website and watch the video of her following commands. She recognizes and reacts to visitors in her room and other stimuli. Read the comments of the nurses who have attended her. SHE IS BY NO MEANS BRAIN DEAD OR A VEGETABLE AS SOME HAVE SAID.
It might not be the life you or I would want were we to be in the same situation, but the husband who wants her dead will not divorce her to marry the woman with whom he has already had children. He has denied her even the most basic rehabilitative care for years. He will not divorce her because he wants the money he will get as her husband when he has her murdered by withdrawing food and water.
Her parents only want to be able to care for her. They've already said they don't want the money, just the right to care for their daughter.
In my humble opinion, the courts have and obligation to appoint someone who will advocate FOR Terri as her legal guardian. The husband has been out to kill her from the start.
I only hope that if the legislature and the courts fail her that someone will step in and take her into hiding, in another country, if necessary to prevent her husband and the courts from killing her.
Well .. the most applauded movie propagates the RIGHT TO DIE theory - and the libs are gaga over it.
Focus Action Laments Court Ruling in Schiavo Case; Decision Paves the Way for the 'Premeditated Death of Terri Schiavo'
Mon Jan 24, 1:46 PM ET
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Jan. 24 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Focus on the Family Action Senior Analyst for Bioethics Carrie Gordon Earll today issued the following statement in response to the U.S. Supreme Court (news - web sites)'s refusal to reinstate a Florida law enacted to protect Terri Schiavo, a severely brain-damaged woman:
"Today's U.S. Supreme Court decision to not reinstate 'Terri's Law' opens the door for the intentional and premeditated death of Terri Schiavo. Mrs. Schiavo is not dying; she is disabled, vulnerable and in need of protection. She deserves to be given the opportunity to live, not to be dehydrated to death by judicial order.
"Medical experts dispute the contention that Schiavo is in a 'persistent vegetative state,' the central argument of those wishing to hasten her death. Family and friends describe her as alert and responsive - behavior that is inconsistent with such a condition. Because she has difficulty swallowing, Schiavo receives liquids through a tube in her stomach and processes these nutrients just as you or I would.
"Unfortunately there are some people, particularly her husband, who want Terri Schiavo dead. They are determined to deny her hydration and nutrition in order to bring about that death. That is morally wrong. We call on Florida Circuit Judge George Greer to reverse his earlier rulings and allow Schiavo's parents to care for her, maintain her feeding tube and defend her right to life."
Contact: Christopher Norfleet of Focus on the Family Action, 719-548-4570 or culturalissues@focusaction.org; Web: http://www.focusaction.org
According to Michael Medved, in addition to serving as an unqualified endorsement of the practice of euthanasia, Vera Drake is also a dreadfully tedious, mind-numbingly boring film, which-aside from promoting its pernicious, tendentious political dogma-has no tangible purpose and is built upon a very flimsy plot.
Even, I'm sad to say, the otherwise brilliant film "Before Night Falls" had to tack on a vile, pro-assisted suicide conclusion, in order to satisfy the politically correct drones who run most of the major Hollywood studios.
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