Venom over Schiavo case imperils GOP solidarity

Palm Beach Post ^ | 3.19.05

[stopem]

I would really like to know how this bill will impact all of our lives. Where can we see the entire bill?

[anniegetyourgun]

Ever notice how quick the MSM is to "prove" that the conservatives are falling apart/at each others throats/breaking up?

[Williams]

No one should be threatening anyone. I don't know this state senator's belief system , but I find it hard to believe her position is based on "not wanting to keep any one out of heaven." By that logic she should be hastening everyone's death.

[eno_]

Boo effing hoo to the RINOs.

Schiavo has been all over the news. Anyone who has seen videos of her knows killing her is barbarism.

[ambrose]

I've seen plenty of "pro-lifers" on here wishing death for Michael S., his lawyer, and the judge. One Freeper even lamented that Brian Nichols' wasn't in Judge Greer's courthouse.

I've been called every name in the book on these Terri threads.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Ironically, this entire situation, including the long-running abortion issue, stems from the libertarian notion that people are owners, not custodians, of their bodies. The fact that the left has seized upon the notion to facilitate its embrace of sexual liberation (and liberation from the burden of caring for the infirm) doesn't diminish the fact that this is a problem that originated with those of our political persuasions. It is going to have to be seriously addressed and resolved or sadly, I fear, it will tear us apart.

[eno_]

She blames the Christian conservative "machine" for "imposing their will on everybody else.

She can put this in her pipe and smoke it: I am a small-l libertarian Republican, not church-going, small-government type.

And I can plainly see this is murder-by-doctor. Anyone abetting this murder is rightly condemned along with the person pulling out the feeding tube.

[Arpege92]

"I've been called every name in the book on these Terri threads."

If I was one them, I apologize....but this is not about you. It's about the life of Terri.

[deport]

I would really like to know how this bill will impact all of our lives.

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The FL Senate bill was never passed as they never brought it to the floor. I think it was SB 804 which you could read if you go to the FLorida Legislature Senate page and look for it....

[joshhiggins]

Am I to assume from this article that there is no division in the democratic party over this issue?

[longtermmemmory]

Palm Beach Post wishful thinking.

The left desperatly seeking leftwing spin to find out something to their benefit. Bad news is good news for democrats.

The Republican Party is taking the "lead" on an issue that has galvanized the nation. The Democrats have only two choices, be the party of no or the party of me too.

[what's up]

A journalist looking for any hairline fracture among conservatives so he can plow it up into a wishful major event.

Journalist vermin.

[Williams]

Well people are freaking out because they feel it's a life or death, murder of Terri issue. But Jesus did not preach murder to achieve any ends, and many Christians were martyred with smiles on their faces. I'm not saying Terri should be martyred, just that Christ would not approve threatening anyone. Also, whether they realize it or not, these people are absolutely hurting Terri's cause by making her supporters look like angry nuts.

Note that I was also criticizing the state senator who didn't back helping Terri. I don't believe her decision is based on "helping" Terri get into Heaven sooner.

[Lancey Howard]

"please respect my fundamental belief: I don't want to keep anybody from getting to heaven."

Now rather than later I suppose. What's this woman's hurry to kill Schiavo?

[Williams]

I don't know this state senator, but that quote about not wanting to keep anyone out of heaven sounds like pure political bs. "Hmm, let me see, how can I sell this without offending the Christian conservatives? Well, they're big on Heaven, so I'll just say I'm afraid to keep Terri out of heaven any longer." It sounds laughably phoney.

[Cicero]

Well, of course that's true. We don't OWN our bodies, we ARE our bodies. We are both body and soul, according to traditional belief.

Those of us who are pro-life are opposed to such concepts as assisted suicide. But Terri's case is not comparable to anything like that, because the evidence suggests that she is being maltreated by her husband that the hospice that is taking his orders. She is not getting proper care, proper rehabilitation, or even proper medical exams for her condition.

There is NO evidence that Terri wants to die, except for an unsupported statement by her husband, who sounds about as believable as O.J.

There is at least some evidence that she may have gone into the hospital in the first place because her husband tried to kill her.

In other words, this really is NOT about the right to die. If you, or someone else, decide you want to kill yourself, I would deplore that action but I would also think that it was your decision. But killing someone else just because they are inconvenient is another matter entirely. Michael Schiavo has shown in many ways that he is NOT a proper guardian for Terri. There is no living will on file.

That's why this particular case has drawn so much attention.