2 Cents on Terri Schiavo

Posted on March 25, 2005 in Morals & Ethics

It is my earnest hope that the prayers of the hundreds of thousands of nuns, monks, priests, bishops, cardinals, lay people, and the Pope himself may be answered this weekend: that Terri Schiavo may rise from her bed and declare “Oh my word! I am so hungry!” I hope that this miracle may happen. Otherwise, I just wish that the body that was Terri Schiavo may pass from this world. It’s been held here too long.

If there is an afterlife, Terri Schiavo’s spirit has already passed into it. The young woman died more than fifteen years ago. She lives today — long after any reasonable hope of recovery — only because of those opportunists who have egged her parents into filing motion after motion in our court system. These same scoundrels who include the corrupt Tom Delay have used Schiavo to hide their utter contempt for the working people, children, the sick, and the elderly in this country.

Elsewhere Tom Burka asks “If Congress passes special laws about Schiavo, then why not a law tailored for each and every one of the rest of us?” If lawyers are willing to help the sides in the Schiavo case, why not a friend of mine whose husband is attempting to intimidate her out of access to her children using the services of a shady lawyer? My friend is too shy to have me repeat her name here and I respect that. Terri Schiavo does not deserve rights above the rest of us, especially not in these times when so much that is essential to survival and to freedom is being wrested away from the Government of the People and given to private concerns.

Those who sell their souls to such people in the name of Terri Schiavo are lost, very lost indeed.