[Apologetics] Re: Excellent links from Jacqui

[Art Kelly]

I didn't get mad, but I don't think this matter is
appropriate for satire. 

I hope Leno and Letterman are not making jobes about
this--even jokes that expose the wrongfulness of those
killing Terri. 

On the other hand, maybe they can "get through" to an
element of society which otherwise would see nothing
wrong with starving someone to death.

Art

--- "Stuart D. Gathman" <stuart at bmsi.com> wrote:
> 
> Satire (don't get mad Art :-):
> 
> http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/069216.php
> 
> A detailed legal timeline, by a lawyer, showing that
> the Florida
> Courts really have properly interpreted Florida law
> in the Terri Schiavo 
> case, and did make quite a determined effort to
> discern whether Terri is 
> PVS or MCS.  The crux of the legal problem is that
> feeding tubes were 
> recently declared "artificial life support".
> 
> http://abstractappeal.com/schiavo/infopage.html
> 
> Another important thing that belongs on my timeline.
>  I think Michael was
> unfairly demonized.  At the time he despaired, and
> killed her cats, etc,
> he also signed over the decision of what to do with
> Terri to the courts.  
> Whatever changes of heart Michael might have had, he
> was powerless to
> change what the courts decided to do.  He has not,
> in fact, been Terri's 
> legal guardian for most of the past 12 years.  This
> case is really about 
> the Schindlers vs. the courts - not the Schindlers
> vs Michael.  Those 
> trying to save Terri are mad at Michael mainly
> because of his testimony 
> before the court (which was attempting to fulfill
> the guardianship he had 
> signed over to them) that Terri said she wouldn't
> want to live as a 
> vegetable.  It is not Michael killing Terri now, it
> is the courts.  He
> is just a pawn.
> 
> The issue for pro-life people, is that it doesn't
> really matter whether
> Terri wanted to live as a vegetable.  God didn't
> give her, or the courts,
> the authority to make that decision.
> 
> An important problem NOT addressed by the lawyer is
> that Terri can
> be fed without the feeding tube.  It is just more
> work - requiring, as
> Jacqui said, a full time nurse.
> 
> Removing the feeding tube was not the moral outrage.
>  Sending police
> to keep food and water away from a mentally disabled
> but otherwise
> healthy woman was the moral outrage.
> 
> -- 
> 	      Stuart D. Gathman <stuart at bmsi.com>
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