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Originally posted by bilmore
Love your word choice. Parents have been begging the courts for years to please let them take care of their kid, saying that hubby wasn't doing what he should. Courts kept saying, no, go away, he's acting in her best interests. They keep trying. Nope. Now, hubby says, kill her, it's time. Parents STILL say, let us take care of her, please. Courts say, nope, hubby's her boss, not you. Go away while we kill your daughter.
I'm not arguing that she's coming back, nor that the fed action was right. Just that this has been a horrid example of merciless proper procedure over humanity.
And you leave the parents right out of your either/or choice.
(And seemingly forget that almost 50% of the Dems who voted, voted for the bill, too.)
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There are no good choices for her -- death, or lingering in a vegetative state. Reasonable people can differ about which they'd choose, but reasonable people admit that it's a tough choice. By denigrating the moral choice that Michael Schiavo has made to, "kill her," you make clear how reasonable you are about it. It's not just a question of process. It's not a question of procedure over humanity. Many of us look at what the parents have done and have a hard time seeing it as humane. I have a hard time criticizing them, since they've lost and are again losing a daughter. So I'll save my criticism for all of those looking to score cheap points out of their tragedy.
I left the parents out because a respect for the sanctity of marriage means more than lip service -- it means that the husband has rights the parents don't. I also left out her friends and other relatives. They are surely hurt by what's happening to her, but that doesn't mean they get to substitute their beliefs for her husbands, either.
I can imagine a situation in which Schiavo's parents wanted to let her die, and her husband didn't, and the cultural conservatives side with him and trashed them. They don't care about the marriage here -- other things are more important.
And I haven't forgotten the Dems who voted for the bill. What do you want me to say about them?
