Since When Were They Pro-Life?
Hmm....why do they do it? A giant, steaming rolling ball of hypocrisy in the Terri Schiavo case is all I can make of anything I read about it. This woman has been in a persistent vegetative state (PVS) for a good 15 years now. Doctors have said repeatedly that she has no hopes of recovering. Can this woman really be considered alive when the only thing keeping her from dying is a feeding tube? All this talk about her being alert, conscious, and awake is bullcrap. This would mean that a huge cover-up was taking place, being conducted by Terri's parents and the hospital staff in Pinellas Park, Floridia. How did they get that around all the other court-appointed doctors who determined that she would never recover? If that was the case, then the judge would simply ask her what she wanted, there would be no fuss. I wouldn't be making this post.
This whole thing is a big farce on the part of the nut-job conservative "right to life" (which should elicit snickers from anyone) movement hoping to consolidate their right-wing Christian base. They are nothing more than pawns in he sleazey game of politics, and they should know better.
This has been an oft-repeated line throughout the case: "we should err on the side of life." How many times did you, Mr. Bush, err on the side of life when you were governor of Texas when you had the state execute 151 people, including at least one mentally handicapped man? That amounts to two executions a month for as long as you were governor. How about those who would cut benefits to seniors, take away funding to veterans hospitals, and leave your health-care to benefit Big Pharma? But, I guess we all should have seen something like this coming, what with the Republican courting of the religious right throughout the past few years. Now they want the GoOP to do what should be the impossible: put the laws of God above the laws of the land. Even Floridia governor Jeb Bush says that he has his limits (that's the most sense I've ever known a Bush to make). I was talking with a friend the other day, and this is what he said: " If the Shiavo parents had real friends and spiritual advisors, they would be comforting them on the loss of their daughter, and helping them learn how to continue with their lives. I know they love their daughter, but at some point you have to be willing to say good-bye.
It just strikes me as odd. Being religious, I believe that the spirit has life after the body has died, and that helps me accept death. How in the world did we end up where death is the crushing blow to the religious; to the Christians who are supposed to believe that Christ overcame death.
There are some very bad people involved in this, and I hate the pain they have and will inflict on both sides of the Shiavo family." But I digress.
Another point to add to this whole PVS business. Terri Schiavo can't feel anything, because in her condition - according to neurologists - she won't feel any pain as she dies, no matter how slowly it takes. Patients in PVS have severe brain damage and are in a state of "wakefulness without awareness." Anything she may do that would seem to be a direct reaction to her surroundings would be purely coincidental. For a complete history of this case, go here and make of it what you will.
This whole thing is a big farce on the part of the nut-job conservative "right to life" (which should elicit snickers from anyone) movement hoping to consolidate their right-wing Christian base. They are nothing more than pawns in he sleazey game of politics, and they should know better.
This has been an oft-repeated line throughout the case: "we should err on the side of life." How many times did you, Mr. Bush, err on the side of life when you were governor of Texas when you had the state execute 151 people, including at least one mentally handicapped man? That amounts to two executions a month for as long as you were governor. How about those who would cut benefits to seniors, take away funding to veterans hospitals, and leave your health-care to benefit Big Pharma? But, I guess we all should have seen something like this coming, what with the Republican courting of the religious right throughout the past few years. Now they want the GoOP to do what should be the impossible: put the laws of God above the laws of the land. Even Floridia governor Jeb Bush says that he has his limits (that's the most sense I've ever known a Bush to make). I was talking with a friend the other day, and this is what he said: " If the Shiavo parents had real friends and spiritual advisors, they would be comforting them on the loss of their daughter, and helping them learn how to continue with their lives. I know they love their daughter, but at some point you have to be willing to say good-bye.
It just strikes me as odd. Being religious, I believe that the spirit has life after the body has died, and that helps me accept death. How in the world did we end up where death is the crushing blow to the religious; to the Christians who are supposed to believe that Christ overcame death.
There are some very bad people involved in this, and I hate the pain they have and will inflict on both sides of the Shiavo family." But I digress.
Another point to add to this whole PVS business. Terri Schiavo can't feel anything, because in her condition - according to neurologists - she won't feel any pain as she dies, no matter how slowly it takes. Patients in PVS have severe brain damage and are in a state of "wakefulness without awareness." Anything she may do that would seem to be a direct reaction to her surroundings would be purely coincidental. For a complete history of this case, go here and make of it what you will.
posted by Derek at 4:21 p.m.
1 Comments:
Well, that's a good point, about playing God, but I don't like to use that arguement as it can swing both ways. For example, if someone gets a disease, then is it God's will that it be cured? I do, however, agree that Michael Schiavo seems quite the sleazebag.
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