Let Terri Schiavo rest
I have not written about the Terri Schiavo case because it is too complex, too multilayered, and too steeped in unknown or unknowable facts for me – indeed for most people – to have a fully informed opinion.
I don’t know – and neither do you – if Michael Shiavo is trying to murder his wife or trying to fulfill her stated wishes for just such a scenario. I don’t know what Terri Schiavo would want – and neither do you – because she didn’t tell us via a living will. We have only the word of her husband who assures us that his wife once said she wouldn’t want to be kept alive this way, and we have her parents, who love their daughter and desire only to care for her.
I do know that the Congress did the wrong thing, intervened where it had no Constitutional right, and solved nothing.
says Bill Hobbs.
I couldn’t have said it better. If you don’t know who the heck Terri Schiavo is, then you are either living in an American cave or simply not living in America at all. Such is the media deluge here [via Instapundit].
“Let Terri Schiavo rest” [Short URL: http://www.ipatrix.com/?p=580] was published Tuesday, March 22nd, 2005 at 6:00 pm by Patrix, filed under Current Affairs. Both comments and linkbacks are closed.
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hmmm..i did have a point of view on that but it wasn’t about terri per se, just on the idea of making life so all-important. do u really think anyone would want to live again after spending 15 years in a vegetable state and never being fully able to live the kind of life they’d have wanted to live?
5 years ago replyAshi – The entire debate is about what did Terri want? The recent poll said that an overwhelming majority wouldn’t want to live in a vegetative state. But it is entirely an individual choice and the Congress had no business interfering.
5 years ago replySo if Terri cannot tell what she wants, what should one do ? Somebody has to make a decision, isn’t it ?
5 years ago replyBlogger – Guess the Congress knows something more about the law that the courts don’t.
5 years ago reply