Originally posted by Zoom Zoom Diva:
If you're going to bring up Michael Shiavo, then I'm going to bring up the Schindlers. If the motives of one are relevant, so are the motives of the other.

The Schindlers want to keep her on a force-feeding life support system. Feeding tubes are by no means natural. If the feeding tube is a natural way of eating, then a respirator is a natural way of breathing.

I see the situation very differently than you do. I see it as a woman who is being artifically kept alive since she died 15 years ago, because the parents are too wrapped up in their own loss to let Terri rest in peace. Forcing people to remain trapped in an existence like this is inhuman and wrong.

The Constitution was written to protect the citizens from having government force a single brand of religious and moral thought upon the people as well as to prevent religion from being corrupted by government.



Oh yeah, her parents...

As for the force feeding from a tube, I suppose we should just remove all the "artificial" means of keeping us alive (vaccines etc). Flu shots etc. Kind of important to you and me. Let's get rid of the fridge, because that's an unnatural way of keeping our food cool, the oven, unnatural way of cooking, the microwave, power lines, cars, etc etc etc.

Let's let go of all technology, because it isn't natural. We are all force fed in some way. Her force feeding just happens to come from a tube inserted in her stomach.

As for artificially keeping her alive. The only thing "artifical" (your term) is the feeding tube. SHE BREATHES (hey, so do I), her heart pumps (hey, so does mine), and as Johnny Five would say She's "ALLIIIIIVE"!!! All she needs now is.....dum-de-dum-de-duuuuummmm.....




Let's hear it? FOOD



If that is artificial, then why does my stomach growl when it's hungry. That's right. It's a necessity of life, regardless of how it gets there.

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