Reply #11: Someone with a disability was just telling me his issue is with [View All]

[BurtWorm]

the removal of the tube. He even said he himself would have his own feeding tube removed if he came to that end. But he thinks it's a "cruel and unusual" way to treat a human being to presume to do it to her. At the same time, he recognizes that the Schindlers have been telling whoppers, that the Republicans stepped in a big pile of doo, and that the courts have behaved in perfectly good faith. But he says he is outraged that Terri Schaivo is being allowed to starve--something people wouldn't do to a dog, he said--because in her state she is valued less than a dog.

I report. You decide.

(I decide that I disagree with my friend with a disability. I have to admit his arguments gave me pause, but I believe the doctors who say hunger and thirst cause her no pain. And I always come back to the astonishing fact that only Jerry Falwell, that I've heard of so far, wants to be kept in PVS indefinitely.)