Reply #13: placing a brain dead woman in the same class as the disabled [View All]

[Malva Zebrina]

and insisting that she be classified as such, is pure intellectual dishonesty. Apparently, either we have a large group of people whose reading comprehension has never fully developed past the fourth grade, or are so tied into their right winged religious beliefs that they deem any amount of dishonesty is acceptable in order to push those beliefs on others.

Picture those wounded vets arriving from Iraq. Picture them with the prosthesis on one or more of their stumps that used to be a leg or used to be an arm. Picture some whose eyesight is gone, who cannot hear, who are paraplegics and then tell me that a brain dead woman whose brain has long turned to spinal fluid,who cannot think, cannot feel, cannot ever function and who has been for all intents and purposes, dead for fifteen years is in the same catagory.

No one thinks that disabled people are better off dead and no one thinks that they need to be killed because they are disabled.
The problem here is the utter attempt by people to confuse Schiavo with those who are commonly called disabled and that is just a deceit.