My thoughts on this whole Terri Schiavo business

[judecorp]

I am so appalled that Congress will call all kinds of special sessions and be so passionate to get involved in the life and death of one random woman, while they could care less about the lives and deaths of thousands of US children, scores of people in poverty, and entire countries in the Middle East and elsewhere.

Where is the logic here, people??!? The dicksizing that runs rampant through this administration just plain makes me want to throw up. I am so fed up with seeing legislation proposed (and sometimes passed) to make decisions in affairs they have no business being privvy to JUST BECAUSE THEY CAN.

I wonder just one thing: If Terri Schiavo was using Medicaid to pay for her 15+ years of hospital care, would the government be so quick to keep her alive?

(Attention, friends: If you have not done so, MAKE YOUR LIVING WILLS NOW. No, not later. NOW! This could all have been prevented with a little legal blahblah.)

Comments

[lemur68.livejournal.com]

BECAUSE IT IS UP TO JESUS NOT US DUH

JEB BUSH IN 08

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Jesus 2008! Next Election = Rapture

[cfred.livejournal.com]

Unless she'd committed a heinous crime like murder. Then we'd have made crispy critters of her, what, 14 years ago?

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

The whole pro-life/pro-death-penalty thing just totally baffles me.

[lemur68.livejournal.com]

To be fair, people being pro-choice and anti-death penaly baffles conservatives too. But that's only hypocritical if you believe that zygotes and stem cells have souls.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Yes, I can see where there could be confusion there, too... except that I think some people automatically assume that everyone who is pro-choice would have an abortion themselves. And in many cases, as in my own, that is most definitely not the case.