9/29/2005
Remember Terri? Or, Remember Steven Hawking!!!
Those of us on the Right, (not to mention in the Right), fought hellaciously to, at the very least, have more tests done to prove once and for all if she were truly so brain-damaged that there was no help for her.
As a short aside I still don’t believe the autopsy results.
Aside from wanting to make certain that she was truly beyond all aid, we wanted to head off the setting of a precedent that would devalue life even more than it already is in this country. The rampant use of abortion as birth control is bad enough without letting people decide whether someone lives or dies on the basis of whether or not that person wants to continue to deal with a very ill relative or an insurance rep decides that the ill person is costing too much money to the company.
The left in America heaps adulation on the european union and their highly socialist systems, holding them up as a paragon of enlightened virtue and reminding us backwards, God-fearing rednecks in America just how caring they are across the pond.
The left in America would gladly have us go down this road, turning America into a country with an ever decreasing economy, leaving us in the same freedomless system of the EU, where a man is almost certain to never be able to move up the ladder of success because the socio-economic mobility simply doesn’t exist due to onerous taxes and a system that promotes laziness and an expectation that the government will be there to take care of you from the cradle to the grave.
Yes, those folks in the EU certainly do have a great idea, don’t they?
Forget for a moment the sky-high unemployment.
Nevermind the miniscule growth rate, the dangerous policies of appeasement, the lack of socio-economic mobility and the hateful attitude towards America for daring to defend ourselves and all free peoples.
Let all of these things slip from your mind as you ponder this little question.
Do you want to live in a society that values life so little that doctors can kill your newborn child without your knowledge or consent simply because that child is not born “normal”?
XPOSTED@Kender’s and Conservative Angst
Oblogatory Anecdotes linked with The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (VHEMT)
And Rightly So! linked with The benefit of doubt should be on the side of life.
September 29th, 2005 at 8:21 pm
Kender, this is no longer just a protocol in the Netherlands. This is now a law. Makes me think that the babies born with birth defects will be “euthanized” without question now…even those who do not have severe defects. “Extreme spina bifida” is not a life threatening defect and those who have it can lead valuable and productive lives. This pisses me off to no end. Makes me want to go over there and adopt all those poor babies who don’t even have a chance to make a life.
Thanks for posting about this.
September 29th, 2005 at 8:43 pm
“As a short aside I still don’t believe the autopsy results.”
There is none so blind as those who will not see.
September 29th, 2005 at 9:13 pm
[…] But that’s just my opinion. Read Kender’s thoughts about this too. […]
September 29th, 2005 at 9:46 pm
Dan, I have talked to a man that has been intensely involved in the whole schiavo case, right there with the parents all along. He is not family, but was very dedicated to this whole scene, and even though he wishes to remain anonymous, he has sent me some paperwork showing key players in this entire criminal activity were involved in insurance schemes regarding Terri. I have been sitting on this info for months, awaiting a call back from him again, and am beginning to wonder what happened to him.
If I get in contact with him again and secure the fianl pieces of the puzzle all of America will see that very questionable activities, not to mention illegal actions on the parts of the judge and mr schiavos lawyer, were committed, and the coverup is enormous.
Most of America has forgotten about this episode, but I have the documents that prove a lie was thrust upon this nation. With the amount of money at stake I distrust everyone involved.
September 29th, 2005 at 11:28 pm
I have no witty comment about this. The whole Schiavo case was disturbing. Her husbands words/actions scared me and I cried over a woman I didn’t even know. My son has autism. He may never have the “quality of life” so many people bring up when addressing these issues. It freaks me out completely that there is a whole mindset of people out there who think some people just have no right to live. They say it under the guise of being “humane.” But any body with a lick of sense knows what they really mean. Those that need help are “inconvenient.”
Its scary. And I don’t for a minute believe the autopsy results either.
September 30th, 2005 at 12:27 am
The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (VHEMT)
There may be forms of this going on now. John Terrantino of the Opinion Journal coined the phrase
October 5th, 2005 at 9:40 pm
How convenient, evidence that won’t be forthcoming. Well, no amount of conspiracy mongering can deny the autopsy report and the brain scans. I await this shadowy confidant you speak of, and see what kind of evidence he can provide.
October 6th, 2005 at 4:31 am
I find it interesting that Michael wouldn’t allow an independent coroner to participate in the autopsy. Here’s the 39-page autopsy report. It makes for a very interesting read.
You don’t need a medical examiner’s license to see that the report raises many more questions than it answers, though from the (once again) misleading media coverage, we are led to believe that the matters of Terri’s life and murder are resolved. They aren’t.
Here’s a typical headline:
But on page 4 of the M.E.’s summary, what the report actually says with regard to possible strangulation is this:
Michael Schiavo and his supporters and doctors have long maintained that Terri suffered from an eating disorder. In interviews with Larry King, in countless newspaper articles over the past 15 years, and during his successful malpractice trial against Terri’s primary care physician, Michael Schiavo stressed his wife’s bulimia-related low potassium level as the cause of her initial collapse. Schiavo won $1 million in damages on the grounds that Schiavo’s obstetrician had failed to diagnose bulimia.
Unquestioning journalists ran dozens of stories echoing the claim: “Eating disorder is real issue in Schiavo case,” “Terri’s life a lesson in dangers of bulimia,” “The lost lesson of Schiavo case: the dangers of eating disorders,” etc.
The autopsy report spends three-and-a-half pages debunking Schiavo’s claim, as well as the related claim that she had a heart attack (or, more medically precise, myocardial infarction). But if mentioned at all, the news reports I have seen have downplayed and buried these astonishing revelations (revelations which bear directly on Schiavo’s credibility regarding his claim that Terri would have wanted to die).
But the disability rights group Not Dead Yet has it right:
Diane Coleman, president and founder of Not Dead Yet, agreed.
It is not clear to me from the neuropathology report when and over what period the much-talked-about brain shrinkage occurred. I have also noticed that some are already mocking the claim that Terri recognized visitors (note that the report also does not appear to indicate when and over what period that loss of sight occurred).
For God’s sake.
Terri Schiavo, a profoundly disabled woman who was not terminally ill and who had an army of family members ready to care for her for the rest of her natural life, succumbed to forced dehydration at the hands of her spouse-in-name-only.
This is not something to gloat about.