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Thursday, March 24, 2005

Why the hell is this happening?!?!?



When asked by her parents and their attorneys if she wanted to live, Terri Schiavo made two conscious attempts to say “Yeah” and began to cry when told that her husband, Michael Schiavo, would be removing her feeding tube on orders of Judge Greer, which would result in her death by starvation.

http://www.theempirejournal.com/0319052_attorneys_last_visit_wit.htm



UPDATE (3/26): Rachel Lucas sums up my thoughts on this issue precisely:
I would not object to giving Terri Schiavo the equivalent of a bullet in the head - such as a lethal injection - if it were in fact proven that she "would want" that. Which it is not. Her husband only says so, and many of you think that's enough. The word of a man who has been committing adultery for a decade and who says "Terri died 15 years ago" yet he refuses to divorce her and let her folks take care of her. It is abominable.

Rachel has a lot of other things to say about this, all of which I agree with.