| Friday -- March 18, 2005 http://boortz.com\nuze\200503\03182005.html
I think that I am about the only radio talk show host in the nation that thinks that nature should be allowed to take its course and Terri Schiavo should be allowed to die. Expect an absolute media frenzy today as the time approaches for Schiavo's feeding tube to be removed. The demonstrators are already gathering outside of the nursing facility. Republicans in the congress are getting in on the act. Republican Mike Enzi of Wyoming, the chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pension committee, says that he is going to issue a subpoena today to Terri Schiavo ... a subpoena to testify before the committee. This illustrates the absurdity of this situation as nothing else can. Congress will subpoena a woman in a persistent vegetative state to testify. All we need now is for some sort of special arrangement to allow West Virginia's Robert Byrd to question her. At the center of the Terri Schiavo tragedy is America's anti-abortion movement. Notice, please, the presence of Randall Terry. The fact is that the anti-abortion movement has seized Terri Schiavo ... figuratively kidnapped her .. and they intend to use this woman to further their anti-abortion agenda. They will entomb the soul of Terri Schiavo in her now-useless body as long as it suits their agenda.
The absurdities of this case would be funny if they weren't so pathetic. Terri's family said last year that they wanted to take her to the mall, and for other field trips. Of course, those trips never happened; just as Terri will never testify before a congressional committee. We also have the blatant attempts to turn the attention away from Terri's condition and to her husband. His crime? He says, and the courts have agreed, that he is merely carrying out wishes expressed to him by his wife. Listen to the Schiavo family and you will hear that her husband her condition was caused by a beating at the hands of her husband. It wasn't. You'll hear that her husband stands to rack up huge piles of money as soon as Terri dies. He won't. Now put yourself in this position. You're watching TV with your spouse one night and see a show about someone on life support. You tell your husband or wife that you don't want to ever be in that state, and would they please pull the plug should you ever become incapacitated. However, you don't write it down, and apparently don't tell your parents. Tragedy strikes, and only your spouse knows your true wishes. Should your spouse be ignored in favor of your parents who want to keep you alive at all costs? Michael Schiavo has turned down $10 million to terminate his rights in this case. He says he just wants to do what Terry wanted. Who's right? Doesn't the spouse come before the parents in any marriage? Time for everybody to write down what their wishes are, so this doesn't happen to you. I'm sure that there is no shortage of people who think that I'm possessed by some evil spirit. No. I'm just sad that Terri's spirit or soul .. whatever you want to call it ... is trapped in this useless body. Her parents' love has clouded their judgment. This can be understood and excused. What can't be excused is the cruelty of the so-called "right to life" movement that will allow this woman to continue to suffer s long as their own needs are met. Now, a question. How many of you can honestly say that you would like to be kept alive, for 20, 40, 50 years or more like this? If you wouldn't want this for yourself, why do so many of you work so hard to force this reality on Terri Schiavo? Oh .. I forgot. You're pro-life. Well isn't that special.
There's one more element to the Schiavo case. This is a Florida matter, not a federal matter. The courts of the State of Florida have made their rulings. The U.S. Congress has no role to play here. This is a blatant attempt on the part of the Congress to usurp bona fide state's rights in order to please a particular political constituency. |
What is so great about "nature," and why should it/she be allowed to "take it's course?" Why should someone appointed as "legal guardian" over another be permitted to deny that person food and water? Why should Terri's parents be prohibited by force from giving the food and water that "nature" apparently intended human beings to have? The Congressional subpoena, of course, was not intended to gather information from the witness (Terri), but to prevent her from being killed by starvation and dehydration.
I am anti-abortion. See also: Libertarians for Life The pro-death movement kidnapped Terri years ago, and has held her hostage with every bit of metaphorical deprivation of life and liberty as Randall Terry has.
There is nothing "extraordinary" about being kept alive by food and water. She's not on machines. She could be spoon fed like a baby, but the hospital says that takes too many man-hours, so a tube feeds her automatically. The PVS diagnosis has been challenged by a number of doctors whose expertise is just as respectable as those who have said "PVS." Boortz is very dogmatic on a subject reasonable medical minds can differ over. Why the passion? MSNBC - SCARBOROUGH COUNTRY - Jay Sekulow Examines Conflicting Medical Testimony in Schiavo Case To say "the courts have agreed" is to say that a group of pro-death advocates have said. These pro-death advocates have been much better organized and funded than Terri's parents. They have a cultural and legal agenda, which they have pulled off, using the machinery of "the government." Boortz puts way to much confidence and attaches way too much legitimacy to what "the courts have agreed." Most "courts" have simply said they don't want to look at the facts in the case. They lack "jurisdiction," or they don't want to offend "the Rule of Law."
The case of someone whose body is being moved by machines (resuscitator, dialysis, etc.) is different from that of someone who lives under their own power, but is incapable of feeding themselves. There is testimony that Terri might not have wanted to have her body operated by machines, but might have approved being fed if she became disabled. The pro-death court did not review this evidence fairly. Before the force of government is used to prevent parents from giving food and water to their daughter, we should be extraordinarily clear about the daughter's wishes. More factual innacuracy by Boortz. The offer was only one million. Michael Schiavo rejects $1 million Our life in this world and in these bodies is just a blink of the eye compared to eternity. Why does Boortz want Terri's exit to be hasted so? What's a few more days, weeks, or even years compared to eternity? Why deny her parents wishes if Terri is completely brain-dead? Why subject them to the torture of watching their daughter be starved to death? Terri was awarded a court judgment based on her living to be seventy-some years and needing rehabilitation and therapy during that time (which has been denied). How will an additional 20 years compare to eternity? If I were disabled and even marginally cognizant of my parents love for me, I wouldn't object to sharing that relationship for a few years before being exited off to eternity. What's the rush? Even though I'm a Christian and don't worry about the next life, I'm in no particular hurry to leave this one. Terri is not in pain. Those who want her dead say she doesn't know anything at all about what's going on? So the only real students in this real-life quiz are the rest of us, and the lesson we're being taught is human life has no value. Congress did the right thing by trying to keep Terri from being murdered by dehydration and starvation. To hell with "the Rule of Law." |
The language of those who would continue the imprisonment of Terri Schiavo is odd, if not amusing. She's referred to as disabled, in a coma or just brain
damaged. She is not "disabled" in the normal context of the word. Her body is, for all practical purposes, dead ... being kept alive solely through extraordinary artificial means. She's not in a coma. People recover from comas. Her
condition is diagnosed as a "persistent vegetative state." There is no medical record of someone recovering from a persistent vegetative state. This is not a state of brain damage. It is, for all practical purposes, brain death. 
Nineteen judges in Florida, three turn-downs from the Supreme Court, and now a Federal District Court judge in Tampa have refused to order the feeding tubes for Terri
Schiavo to be reinserted. Now it's off to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta. 
So, there he was ... Randall Terry, the anti-abortion zealot, screaming outside of the nursing home housing Terri Schiavo. He was screaming something
about "hell to pay" if Terri Schiavo dies. He then went on to rant a bit about all of the work that the anti-abortion movement did to elect these Republicans, and that now is the time for them to deliver and perform.