Comments on: Terri Schiavo’s Life is Spared Temporarily

By: blog.mintruth.com

blog.mintruth.com — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 05:13:39 +0000

I Have No Taste…
It seems that everyone is talking about the same thing in the mainstream media and on blogs these days. Terry Schiavo.

Well, I was going to comment on the whole subject, but it’s stupid. It’s such a distraction from our real problems so instea…

By: JackLewis.net

JackLewis.net — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 15:06:40 +0000

Terri Schiavo: Observations and links
Bumper sticker for Liberals: Congress has no business denying an adulterous husband’s right to torture his wife to death! Good…

By: Reformed Politics

Reformed Politics — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 05:29:37 +0000

Schiavo case matters in symbol and substance
She matters, not only because she has an endowed, inalienable right to life, but also because she is a symbol – like Rosa Parks was a symbol when she refused to sit in the back of that Montgomery, Ala., …

By: Peaktalk

Peaktalk — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 03:58:02 +0000

THE MARKET OF LIFE AND DEATH
So a federal judge has now adjourned the hearing and postponed making a ruling in the Schiavo case for an undetermined period of time. The affair continues to generate a fairly intense debate with many weighing in, note for instance…

By: Thirty Second Thoughts

Thirty Second Thoughts — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 02:45:30 +0000

Why Should We Care About Terri Schiavo?
As most of you know, Terri Schiavo, a Florida woman who suffered severe brain damage back in the early 1990s due to interrupted blood flow to her brain, is currently in her fourth day of a state court-ordered deprival of food and water. The effect of…

By: La Shawn

La Shawn — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 02:09:49 +0000

Look, do whatever you want. We all can do whatever we want. There will be an accounting.

This thread is closed. I will open a new one for the Schiavo segment on MSNBC tomorrow.

By: Richard Bennett

Richard Bennett — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 02:05:31 +0000

So in your compassionate opinion, a man should foreswear female company for the rest of his life when his wife falls into a coma?

That’s the craziest thing I ever heard.

By: La Shawn

La Shawn — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 01:57:59 +0000

Because he was married? It’s called adultery. I think the “in sickness and in health” vow is applicable here.

By: smithers

smithers — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 01:32:05 +0000

Renee,
You post all over the place on this website, and you rarely manage to chime in with anything more than a religion-based character attack. Why is it wrong for Michael to have tried to make a relationship with another woman?

By: stan

stan — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 01:31:59 +0000

I’ve noticed several folks on TV in the last two days say that a 6 wk or 6 mo old baby in Texas was disconnected against the wish of the parents. This was supposedly done based on a law signed by Pres. Bush when he was governor. Has anyone seen anything to prove or disprove that info?

By: smithers

smithers — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 01:25:17 +0000

Mark,
Could we try to keep this argument limited to the case at hand? I’m not going to start critiquing the NYTimes or human rights activists in order to make my points. Please, take it easy.
Michael has been without a responsive, reciprocating wife for over a decade. Many people who lose their spouses in tragic accidents find new spouses within a decade. Don’t be so quick to judge. There is no per se reason why Michael should be condemned for trying to lead a fulfilling relationship with another woman after Terri’s tragic collapse. I think it is a testament to Michael’s character that he has continued to fight for Terri’s wishes even when he could presumably have gotten a divorce long ago. Since he has promised to donate any left over money to charity, he has nothing to gain from Terri’s death, although I think he should be entitled to any insurance money the way he would have been had Terri passed away when she collapsed.
Your comparisons to terrorists just sounds like political flame bait to me. Terrorists, while being very bad people in need of life-long imprisonment, are not vegetative. Terri is vegetative. Witholding food from a nonvegetative person is different from witholding food from a non-vegetative person. Furthermore, you’re still overlooking the fact that it was Terri’s wish not to be left in a state like the one she is currently in.
You may disagree with Judge Greer’s decision, but eighteen other judges have ruled the same way in this case, and it is still within his jurisdiction to make such a decision, even if you disagree.
Terri did have representation. She was represented by Judge Greer ad litem.
The NYTimes didn’t say starvation was painless, doctors said that. And they put it in the context of patients ill like Terri.
As for justice for Terri, if by that you mean that her wishes (not her parents’, not Michael’s, not your, and not Congress’) are obeyed, then I think there has been justice in this case.
I know I sound like a school-marm, Mark, but this case isn’t about al quiada or the ACLU or the NYTimes, it’s about Terri Schiavo and how we best respect her wishes.

By: stan

stan — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 01:22:26 +0000

All the polls indicate that an overwhelming majority of Americans are with the husband on the issue. The Republicans may have “excited” their base but that’s about all and they may have over-played their hand.

By: Donna V.

Donna V. — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 01:11:05 +0000

smithers, the point of my post was that people in comas may hear and understand more than even highly trained physicians give them credit for. That being the case, don’t you think Terri may not be suffering a “painless” death at all, but death by slow torture? You’d go to jail for treating a dog like this.

Joy Reid: The problem is that Michael seems to want it both ways. I don’t blame him for finding someone else and having kids – but why didn’t he divorce Terri then and begin his life anew? Why stay married? He isn’t living as Terri’s spouse, and yet he has retained the final say so on whether she lives or dies.

As a conservative, I’m highly uncomfortable with the state decreeing, in the absence of personal directives, that someone else’s life is “worthless.” That opens a Pandora’s box I’d rather see stay closed.

By: Renee

Renee — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 01:10:26 +0000

Mark don’t leave out the girlfriend he had before this woman he now has children with

By: ReidBlog

ReidBlog — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 01:05:23 +0000

Schiavo madness
What have we learned from the Terri Schiavo case? That the Congress of the United States under its current leadership, along with the U.S. president, have absolutely no respect for the rule of law, for the judiciary in general, or for the authority o…