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

[juliann.livejournal.com]

I think the most telling readon why they're all doing this came out in a leaked memo from top Republican Senators who called it "a great political issue" and "tough on the Democrats".

It's no about one woman living or dying, it's about shaming their opponents.

I really do think someone of high media rankings needs to point out that it's pretty hard to say we should save the life of a woman in PVS but it's OK to kill people who murdered someone when they were under 18. How is Terri Schiavo's life more valuable than a juvenile's?

(Actually I support capital punishment, but I also think they should let that poor woman die already! And I believe in assisted suicide.)

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I hate when people become fodder for politicking. I know that on some level people will /always/ be fodder for politicking, but when it's one individual person it just seems so much more exploitative.