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March 22, 2005
From the email
I've been busy carrying on several email conversations, some with RN's over Terri's unnatural dying. I'm waiting for permission to post here a very poignant piece of writing from one email I received. In the meantime I'll post here what I wrote to one of the RN's I've been conversing with ..
Where are the "women's rights" groups that supposedly are in the forefront against domestic violence? Where are the families of people who suffer from Down's Syndrome, Cerebal palsey or severe Autism? Don't they know that the killing of Terri just cracks the door open even further to allow those that recoil at the sight of the disabled to legally rid society of them????The whole "death with dignity" part used to be applied to the TERMINALLY ILL. Or those who had already suffered brain death and just applied to extraordinary medical measures..Not food and water. Terri was never terminally ill, she was not in any pain from disease and she is not brain dead.
We have moved from a position of allowing the dying to die to a position of imposing death on those we find eugenically inconvenient.
Posted by Darleen at March 22, 2005 01:11 PM