I thought it strange to see more than one broadcast today characterize the Schiavo case as involving "Terri's right-to-die."
According the information I've seen, these are the important facts:
-There is no legally-valid, written statement of Mrs. Schiavo's wishes, only her husband's assertion that Terri would have wanted to die in this kind of situation (on which point he contradicted himself when interviewed by Larry King).This is not a case of "Terri's right-to-die;" this is a case of a husband's right to kill his wife.
-Mr. Schiavo has two children with his mistress.
-A financial settlement to provide for Terri's rehabilitation was won, but Terri has not received such rehabilitation.
-A lawyer for Terri's parents told Terri that her feeding tube would be removed and that she had to say she wanted to live, which Terri tried to do.
-Terri is not in a coma. She is not unresponsive. Neither is she on a life support system.
It is not for Man to decide whether a person's life is no longer worth living, whether a judge or a husband, and it is unconscionable that our nation gives individuals the right to kill the defenseless.
The one on whom Terri should have been able to depend to defend her is the one trying to end her life.
That one judge after another has ruled in favor of her murder should not be a surprise, since each one of these decisions is another in a decades-long tradition of American courts ruling in favor of death.
If millions of children can be murdered by their own mothers (and this defended as a "Constitutional right") what is one "damaged" adult?
That the Mainstream Media are portraying the facts of this case falsely (if not to influence public opinion, then why?) is another example of its leftist, immoral, pro-death agenda.