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I don’t have an opinion on the Terri Schiavo case (and if Instapundit, a law professor, doesn’t, then I guess it’s not amiss that I also do not). However, I do have an interesting observation or two.
An editorial in todays LA Times says:
In law, a spouse’s decisions about care of a mentally incompetent patient have long trumped parents’.
Leave it to the LA Times to not distinguish between caring for someone, and killing them. It’s not like the disagreement is over what to feed her or what medications to give her.
I also feel that ending Schiavo’s life via starvation is cruel, barbaric, and wrong.
Newsmax had this moving report:
Barbara Weller, an attorney for Terri Schiavo’s parents, told reporters Friday afternoon that during her visit earlier in the day she told Ms. Schiavo:
“Terri, if you would just say, ‘I want to live,’ all of this will be over.”
According to pro-life activist Randall Terry, who recounted the scene to radio host Sean Hannity, Schiavo tried desperately to repeat Weller’s words.
”’I waaaaannt …,’ Schiavo allegedly said, in a prolonged yell that had police stationed nearby running into her hospice room.
“She just started yelling, ‘I waaaannt, I waaaannt,’” Terry said, according to Weller’s account.
At that point police ejected Weller, he said.
Newsmax has this report as well:
Some people have camped out for days, like Terry Butts, a medical assistant and mother of two teenagers.
“I’ve worked in the nursing field over 20 years, and never seen a tube come out without a living will,” she said. “It’s not supposed to happen.”
