I can't help but believe that most of the people who think it's ok to "pull the plug" on Terri Schiavo don't know the facts. If you listen to the MSM, you'd think she was being kept alive by a respirator and is in a terminal condition.
They won't tell you that she's healthy, and could live for many years with proper care, but is terribly disabled. I won't argue that she can be rehabilitated, I won't even argue that she's got any higher brain function whatsoever, but she's healthy, or at least she was until they quit giving her food and water.
Interestingly, even in the Netherlands, which allows euthanasia, Terri Schiavo would not qualify, because she is not in a terminal condition, nor is she in intolerable pain!
How about that? They can't kill her in the bad old Netherlands, but it's ok to kill her here. Because the Florida legislature has defined the law carefully so that removing food and water from a severely disabled, but otherwise healthy, woman, by definition is neither murder nor suicide.
Honestly, I think it is insane to simply starve her. Go ahead and give her a lethal injection, it's more humane, and it's at least honest. Why pretend otherwise? (Not that I want this, I just want them to quit pretending that they're not guilty of shedding innocent blood.) |
