• Liberals claim that the decision of a husband to kill his wife by denying her food and water is a “private matter.” Since when has a husband killing a wife been considered a private matter under our laws? [A husband who was living in an adulterous affair yet was granted by a judge the right to have his first wife (Jodi is his second) put down, to free him up for his already under way 'second life' ... a greater miscarraige of the judicial system I cannot easily name.]
• Terri’s husband Michael claims that Terri would have wanted her feeding tube removed rather than live in the state she was in. But Terri did not put this wish in writing, and others who knew her say that she would not have wished to be killed. Moreover, Michael did not bring to light Terri’s supposed wishes until seven years after her injury.[What MS claimed Terri said regarding life support was at least a decade before feeding tubes were redefined as life support, thus to apply some comment made before the change to her life after the change is eggregious wrong and smacks of 'grandfathering euthanasia'.]
• Advocates of the culture of death claim that they were allowing Terri to “die with dignity” by removing her feeding tube. Implicit in that statement is the notion that a slow death by starvation and dehydration is dignified and that Terri Schiavo retained the mental capacity to understand and agree with this. Yet the very liberals advocating this point of view also claim that Terri was in a persistent vegetative state and that she had no self-awareness.[The evil of dehumanizing often requires the one promoting it to claim contradictory assertions ... it's called deceit most foul under other circumstances.]
• Pro-death forces also claim that Terri Schiavo was on life support and was being kept alive through extraordinary means. But a feeding tube is not life support in the traditional sense. [And when Terri was supposed to have made her comments regarding life support, a respirator not a feeding tube was the standard of 'extraordinary life supporting measures'.] Also, foregoing extraordinary means to keep a dying patient living longer sounds rational, but providing food and water is not an extraordinary means, and Terri was not dying. In fact, Terri’s death resulted from the deliberate denial of food and water; it was not a natural consequence of her medical condition. [And that fact of her ordered killing by a probate court judge is why I called her death an execution ... the judge ordered that no one was to try and feed her by mouth or even give her moisture by mouth upon her tongue. THAT is malice aforethought, an ordered execution by a judge not empowered to issue execution orders.]
• The major media treat as a given that Terri Schiavo was in a persistent vegetative state (PVS). Though a PVS diagnosis does not change the morality of not providing food and water, it is still worth pointing out that some medical authorities disagreed with this diagnosis. In the April 4 issue of THE NEW AMERICAN, we quoted Dr. Richard Neubauer, medical director of the Ocean Hyperbaric Neurologic Center in Ft. Lauderdale, as stating in an affidavit that Terri was neither “brain dead” nor in a “persistent vegetative state.”
• Leftist politicians and media outlets criticized the Republican Congress and the president for enacting a law aimed at saving Terri’s life [And the democrat party has signaled their intention to pound the issue for political gain, using the same deceit and outright lies formulated and promoted by their media whoredom ... and no doubt there will be joyous FR members joining in the pounding, regardless of truth or unseemly assuasion.] and accused the Republicans of “practicing medicine without a license.” Since when has food and water been considered medicine? Aside from that, the same leftist politicians want the government to run the entire health care system. (If they succeed in accomplishing that objective, it would not be surprising to find the government rationing care and determining who lives and who dies.)
I am indeed surprised that at least Hildy has not yet jumped on this thread to argue the financial perils of 'keeping the useless eaters alive.'