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Overall, I?ve been trying like hell to stay out of the whole Terry Schiavo thing. Should she live, should she die, should the entire country be involved in the decision making process? I don?t have the answers but I?ve just discovered someone (thanks to my husband) who summarizes in a fairly succinct way my feelings on the whole debacle:
Against my own logic, something about ending Terri Schiavo's life feels wrong. When those who stand with her parents (including both Bushes) say they believe in compassion and erring on the side of life, they almost convince me. Where they lose me, I guess, is when they try equating this with pure murder and dragging in inadmissible religious arguments. I also don't see them "erring on the side of life" regarding so many other people in this world -- many of them, more "alive" than Terri Schiavo will ever be and perhaps a better investment of our limited national compassion. Which is another reason I don't think I should have a vote on Terri's fate. I don't know what it would be. But it would probably be something impractical like, "I vote to feed Terri Schiavo if we don't stop there. Let's pass a law that we feed everyone who's in danger of starving to death."
It truly is a mystery to me how so-called Christian Republicans are able to grandstand over this poor brain-damaged woman and yet, the poor and the homeless, the uninsured and the elderly continue to struggle on a daily basis. I don?t see George or Jeb Bush jumping on those bandwagons. If you want to use a ?right to life? argument, then you have make sure it applies to everyone, and not just to those people who are politically expedient.