Helping A Sick Person Die is Illegal

I got involved in the Terri Schiavo Case in October 2003. I did so not because I am against families removing life support from loved ones who are 'actively' in the process of dying but because Theresa 'Terri" Schiavo was a disabled woman who was not terminal or in the process of actively dying. And because I believe that it is the duty of every American to protect the rights of those who cannot speak for themselves.

Terri Schiavo was no more in the process of dying than you or I. You can take the biggest and healthiest human being put him in a room and deny him food and water and he will die. Not because of some terminal condition but because our bodies can not last long without taking in food and water.

Terri had no written directive but in reality,because her condition was not terminal, she shouldn't have had to have one. There are thousands of Americans who have feeding tubes, my own son at one point in his life had one. A feeding tube is not a sign that the person using it is in the process of dying.

Terri Schiavo didn't die as a result of her feeding tube not working. She was forced to die by a part of our American society that deems the lives of people with severe disabilities as lives not worth living.

As an American mother I find it appalling that today in the United States of America those with disabilities have every right to fear being "helped to die" because some judges have seen fit to openly involve the American population in euthanasia.

"The secondary effect is our society's wink at assisted dying. We say, 'It's just to keep her comfortable,' but, in fact, people are helped to die all the time - but nobody says it out loud."

-Robb Miller, Compassion and Choices of Washington's executive director

http://www.compassionandchoices.org/localgroups/wa/pdfs/WA_LizTaylor_StateGroup.pdf

"People are helped to die all the time"

That statement really hit home with me, being it was only a few days ago that I was telling someone how wrong it was of her to allow hospice to take precious moments of life away from her husband who would have died without being helped to die.

What is happening in our country goes against everything our country's foundation rests on: Life, Liberty and Justice for ALL.

Carrie Hutchens is right! "Terri Schiavo wasn't allowed to pass on. She was executed...."

http://www.dakotavoice.com/200609/Opinion/Regular/20060924_CH.html

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