Terri Schiavo: In this country, even condemned serial killers are not executed in this way
Nat Hentoff has summed up the whole Terri Schiavo Passion Play being performed here in Florida as well as any I have read: Judicial Murder - Her crime was being disabled, voiceless, and at the disposal of our media. Two of the better excerpt are this:
"As to legal concerns," writes William Anderson, a senior psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital and a lecturer at Harvard University, "a guardian may refuse any medical treatment, but drinking water is not such a procedure. It is not within the power of a guardian to withhold, and not in the power of a rational court to prohibit."... and this:
"The courts . . . have [also] ordered that no attempts be made to provide her water or food by mouth. Terri swallows her own saliva. Spoon feeding is not medical treatment. This outrageous order proves that the courts are not merely permitting medical treatment to be withheld, they have ordered her to be made dead."I pray God and Terri will forgive me for not doing more to save her.In this country, even condemned serial killers are not executed in this way.
