The Politics of Life and Death: Terri Schiavo

“The parents of Terri Schiavo asked a judge to reinsert the brain-damaged woman’s feeding tube Monday, following an extraordinary political fight that consumed both chambers of Congress and prompted the president to rush back to the White House.”

TheStateOf: It’s sad that this woman has been in a vegetative state for 15 years. It’s sad that her husband and family have to go through this. It’s sad that this has become a major political asset for the Right Wing of the Republican Party. If they truly cared about “life,” they wouldn’t be dropping bombs in Iraq, and they wouldn’t be letting kids and homeless people go hungry. I think, if a person in a vegetative state has previously expressed a wish to die should they ever become incapacitated, they should be allowed to do so.