This issue over Terri Schiavo has gotten way out of hand. President Bush has butted in; angry women slap duct tape on their mouths and picket and senators who should have their mouths taped shut strong arm the government to intervene. It's an alarming misuse of political power, speciesism and religious hypocracy. Forget that even Jesus said, "What you do unto the least of them you do unto Me". After the reporters are gone, these self-appointed defenders of a human vegetable peal off the tape, go home and eat flesh without batting a teary eye.
If they want to speak up for those that don't have a voice, speak up for the millions of animals and birds who are daily being stabbed, sliced and dismembered with they're still alive. Or demand that government stop killing innocent, able-bodied Iraqi women by the tens of thousands, women who know they are alive, women who have families to care for.
The irony is that Terri was an anorexic who starved herself to the point of death. That's why she is hopelessly brain damaged. Very sad. Very ironic. But it happened 15 years ago. Instead of trying to make her a poster child for right to life issues, why not simply share the story of her anorexia? Brains don't grow back but Terri's example could help others afflicted with eating disorders but her parents are way too selfish and self-righteous to tell the whole truth aboutTerri's condition.
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I agree with you completely.
She was an anorexic, and hardly anyone knows this. Many people asssume she was in an accident of some sort.
Not that she should be punished for being an anorexic, but this COULD be used as a way to educate people about that horrible sickness.
Someone complained that anti-death penalty people are not coming forward to defend Terri. Well, why aren't pro-Terri people protesting in front of San Quentin? Obviously, we cannot see the forrest for the trees, or we invent our own trees.
Also, Mel Gibson has a fat head. Sending a fax to Terri's parents like that. What a show off.
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