Biased news article (Schiavo fallout) from an unlikely source [View All]

[KamaAina]

the Christian Science Monitor.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/csm/20050404/ts_csm/ajudges

In the emotional moments after the announcement, pro-life and disability-rights supporters lashed out at a judicial system that they said was being run by activist judges who favor death over life.

:wtf: To my knowledge, no disability rights supporters have swallowed enough of the RW Kool-Aid to parrot the "activist judges" meme. What we're lashing out at is the law itself, which gives no protections whatsoever to people with significant disabilities who (like Terri) are under guardianship, not the judges who (for once) were only upholding the law.

Herewith, Not Dead Yet's statement, which nowhere includes the words "activist" or "judges":

http://www.notdeadyet.org/docs/schiavostatement033105.html

March 31, 2005 -- The disability community joins Robert and Mary Schindler in mourning over the death of their daughter, Terri Schiavo. In spite of the work of a broad-based array of supporters, the efforts to prevent Terri Schiavo's death through starvation and dehydration ultimately failed.

Even as we mourn, we renew our resolve to continue the battle to promote meaningful safeguards for the thousands of disabled Americans who, like Terri Schiavo, have guardians making life-and-death decisions on their behalf. The dangers to people with disabilities did not begin with the publicized tragedy of Terri Schiavo and they do not end with her death.

We need to work together in a nonpartisan way to ensure meaningful support, legal safeguards, and access to medical care for the millions of old, ill and disabled Americans who are endangered on many fronts.

It's a sad day indeed when the Monitor, one of the few media outlets that hasn't been assimilated by the RW Borg, lumps the disability rights movement in with the pro-lifers. :grr: