Right here right now say you are going to treat your dog like Schiavo was treated in her dying days and I'll call PETA and lets see what happens to you.
Or let's say I call the ASPCA? By all means go ahead.
But you wouldn't starve your dog to death would you? Or deny your beast water. You wouldn't do this to a dog would you?
You can call me a Schiavo lunatic when you can say you could let your dog starve to death.
Otherwise **** off.
Did they starve her to death? Yea or Nay? Did they dehydrate her to death? Yea or Nay?
I wouldn't freaking do this to a hamster or a goldfish.
The issue with Terri Schiavo was whether or not the GOVERNMENT (in this case George W Bush and the Congressional Republicans) has the right to overule the wishes of the family (in her case her husband) and the doctor.
Terri was in a persistant vegetative state. Her doctor gave her no hope of recovery. And as the autopsy showed the doctor was 100% correct.
But the Conservative memmbers of Congress and George W Bush thought that the GUBMINT knew better than her doctor and sought to overule the her husband's wishes, effectively exercizing government control over a decision best made by the family.
There was even a "Schiavo Memo" that suggested the Schiavo case offered "a great political issue" that would appeal to the party's base (core supporters) and could be used against Senator Bill Nelson, a Democrat from Florida who was up for reelection in 2006, because he had refused to co-sponsor the bill . As a result it was shown that the GOP was only interested in this case for political gain, not because of some great moral victory.
Schiavo memo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
So I hope you people will be honest enough to now admit that you want a big, activist government making decisions that truly belong to the family and their doctor? You can't have it both ways.
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