Reply #87: Good analysis. [View All]

[bklyncowgirl]

This is a case upon which well meaning people on both sides can have reasonable opinions. What is truly sad is that the only person who cannot have an opinion on this case is Terri Schaivo herself. The whole arguement centers around the unproveable--what would Terri have wanted.

The Republicans and the Right to Life crowd are politicizing a private tragedy. They are using this to throw a bone to the Religious Right--who they intend to screw massively in coming months. And they are using this case to distract the opposition and the public from the fact that they too are getting screwed royally. It is masterful manipulation of people's emotions.

My mother died last month and I had to make some of the same decisions. Fortunately she had signed a living will so that I had something concrete to work with so that her wishes could be respected--still it is agonizing to try and interpret your loved one's thoughts on what constitutes extroadinary medical care and what does not.

I made these decisions with medical input from her doctors, the nurses who were caring for her and family and friends. I would not have wanted some politician--any politician with an agenda to have stuck his nose in this painful process.

The Democrats should decry Republican attempts to politicize a family's private tragedy, express their private opinions perhaps, but refuse to take any part in this charade.