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To: Ilaine who wrote (106517)	3/29/2005 12:24:25 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) of 793624

She's extremely liberal, but her position about this case is the same as mine -- Terri Schiavo is being killed because she is extremely disabled. That's a perfectly understandable position for a disabled person to take. She sees this as a disability rights case because she fears a potentially slippery slope with regards to disabled people. When we feel vulnerable in society, we fight any and all perceived encroachment. Terri Schiavo is being killed because she is extremely disabled. I think that calling Terri "extremely disabled" is a euphemism. I realize that we disagree on this but that's the way I see it. I have referred to her a bunch of chemicals in a human suit, effectively dead long ago. I can draw a line between that disabled lawyer and Terri so bright that I don't even think of Terri as disabled but dead and I think that society sees a bright line, too. I would no more accede to "killing" that lawyer than I would to killing a fully able-bodied person. I understand why she's wary. It's natural when you're in a vulnerable class. But it seems to me that we should be reassuring her that society sees the difference rather than arguing to keep the dead woman perched at the top of the slope alive.

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