Terri Schiavo may be on drip morphine, but her soul is screaming for someone to save her.
I am living through a most surreal moment.. I am watching an American citizen be dehydrated and starved to death. And no one can stop it?
President Bush Should Declare the Tube Reinserted and Guardianship Given to her Parents
Yes, I know it sounds extremem. But so is death. Especially one that is not necessary. A presidential order, like the one President Clinton used to free his pal Mark Rich, should be used now to free Terri Shiavo from her husband's, his lawyer's and the culturally-sensitive judges' bondage. These who believe that:
Members of the district courts' "star chamber" have evidently made up their minds, once and for all, that morality shall not be used in interpreting our laws. They'll say, "There is a rule, after all, that we can only debate those objective ideals like rules." No, these moral giants take cover (and live in ingnominy).
Following is the the crux of this issue: It seems no one in the judiciary asked at the outset if Schiavo's is a moral issue and how shall we look at the law from that point of view, with the idea of saving this woman's life. What was the intent of the law? And do we not have a responsibility to err or the side of Terri. What can we do, as a society built by laws, to save this young woman's life until there is absolute certainty of her diagnosis and condition?
And ultimately, I have to ask anyone who disagrees, "Why not?" The husband says it's been fifteen years. I have to reply, "Then, what's another year or two?" Why are these judges so quick to throw these appeals out? Could it be they don't care about the moral side of it? Those rules again. Or are they simply cowards. I think that must be the case. By the way, the husband has moved on gaining a wife and two babies. There's no reason he cannot divorce Terry and leave her to her loving, waiting parents.
There can be no excuse for Terri dying from this inhumane treatment. If she does, I will hang my head in shame that I didn't get my point across to those who believe that killing Terri is just fine.
A presidential pardon would frankly be a fresh breath of sunshine and clean air.
Thanks for the read.
I am living through a most surreal moment.. I am watching an American citizen be dehydrated and starved to death. And no one can stop it?
President Bush Should Declare the Tube Reinserted and Guardianship Given to her Parents
Yes, I know it sounds extremem. But so is death. Especially one that is not necessary. A presidential order, like the one President Clinton used to free his pal Mark Rich, should be used now to free Terri Shiavo from her husband's, his lawyer's and the culturally-sensitive judges' bondage. These who believe that:
Society is best served by granting individual rights only when granting them is beneficial to the whole, which is hardly ever. Society is made up of laws and rules. Irreversible rules, procedures, format, structure. The same ones that are bent over backwards for rapists, murderers, ex-presidents, serial rapists, celebrity wife killers, et al.
Members of the district courts' "star chamber" have evidently made up their minds, once and for all, that morality shall not be used in interpreting our laws. They'll say, "There is a rule, after all, that we can only debate those objective ideals like rules." No, these moral giants take cover (and live in ingnominy).
Yeah, I remember those kinds of rules--ones like the TA in high school lorded over you with if you were late for class. (Rules that can be changed, for God's sake!) Rules, dammit! That's all they are!
The Schiavo case has not been heard on the reality of this case, nor has the argument gone past the question of whether the law was followed and were her rights protected. This legalism is again responsible for unjust treatment of one of our fellow citizens.
The Schiavo case has not been heard on the reality of this case, nor has the argument gone past the question of whether the law was followed and were her rights protected. This legalism is again responsible for unjust treatment of one of our fellow citizens.
Following is the the crux of this issue: It seems no one in the judiciary asked at the outset if Schiavo's is a moral issue and how shall we look at the law from that point of view, with the idea of saving this woman's life. What was the intent of the law? And do we not have a responsibility to err or the side of Terri. What can we do, as a society built by laws, to save this young woman's life until there is absolute certainty of her diagnosis and condition?
And ultimately, I have to ask anyone who disagrees, "Why not?" The husband says it's been fifteen years. I have to reply, "Then, what's another year or two?" Why are these judges so quick to throw these appeals out? Could it be they don't care about the moral side of it? Those rules again. Or are they simply cowards. I think that must be the case. By the way, the husband has moved on gaining a wife and two babies. There's no reason he cannot divorce Terry and leave her to her loving, waiting parents.
There can be no excuse for Terri dying from this inhumane treatment. If she does, I will hang my head in shame that I didn't get my point across to those who believe that killing Terri is just fine.
A presidential pardon would frankly be a fresh breath of sunshine and clean air.
Thanks for the read.
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