Bloggers' Best for Terri Schiavo, Part Six

Here is today's collection of links for Terri Schiavo. Email me to have a link included.

My Terri Schiavo posts are indexed here. Previous posts of links are here.

• Michelle Malkin covers the media coverage of Terri's case in her column, The MSM's Life and Death Distortions. See also her blog post, Denied.

• Kathleen Parker asks, "When is a husband not a husband?" in To Help Live or Let Die.

• In What Next? Linda Chavez discusses the polls and concludes with the question, "If a court can order Terri Schiavo to be slowlt starved to death on the wishes of an estranged husband, who will be next?

• The JollyBlogger, in Michael Schiavo and the Gospel, helps us to see all aspects of this case, but especially Michael Schiavo, in the light of the Gospel. Wise words from this wise pastor and blogger.

• Joe Carter, of The Evangelical Outpost, writes about how the convoluted concepts of marriage law has worked against Terri Schiavo in, No Fault Death: Terri Schiavo andthe Absurdity of Marriage Laws.

• Diane of Bogard Blog titles this one, My Feeble Ramblings. I find it neither feeble nor rambling, but well worth a read.

• Blogotional sends us Terri Schiavo: Morality and Legality. There's a lot of good reading on this site for Terri.

• Jeannine of Sharing Life sends us her thoughts in Spiritual and Physical Starvation. Also, for a glimpse of what the European public is seeing on this, she translates this from a German source.

• Paul Deignan of Info Theory contributes the post, Generalization: Terri Schiavo, in which he examines the implications of this case.

• BloggerBen of Just My Blog sends us See Dick go to Jail for taking that crippled lady a drink.

• Amy's Humble Musings sneds us Humanism's Next Meal.

Comments

[jon]

Thanks so much for your continued work here, Dory.

[scanner]

Dear Editor:

What are we to make of the Republican Party's crusade to maintain Terri Schiavo in a persistent vegetative state for as long as possible?

Even though Terri had been in this terrible condition for fifteen years and had no chance of recovering, Republicans wanted to keep her in a state of living death indefinitely. Why?

Republicans claim to be motivated by a respect for the "inherent" value of human life--even when life is no longer worth living. And in any meaningful way, Terri was no longer living--at least not as a human being able to think, act, and value.

Terri Schiavo had nothing to gain from living, so it is clear that those who wanted to keep her in a state of living death were not concerned with her well being. They were concerned with advancing and imposing their religious view that a person's life belongs to God, and as such must be preserved at all costs. In this view, suffering and misery are to be accepted and endured even when there is no hope of improvement or happiness.

Americans must beware of the danger coming from the Religious Right--and firmly defend their right not to be force-fed with nutrients or religious dogmas that would keep them in a persistent state of living death.

David Holcberg

Ayn Rand Institute