Reply #29: Here's An E-Mail I Sent To A Conservative Website [View All]

[DemocratSinceBirth]

There are those of us on the left who are sickened by the Terri Schiavo case. To me being a liberal means having empathy for folks in distress... Terri Schiavo is clearly in distress .... We should help her....

I believe in a culture of life. This belief leads me to oppose abortion, the death penalty, and euthanasia... I am also a civil liberterian... In a pluralistic society these competing values sometimes conflict... But not in this instance... Terri Schiavo should live... When God wants her home he will call her... He won't starve her to death...

I am a caregiver and have been for ten years to my eighty seven year old mom... She has stage 3 colon cancer and is an amputee... She's alert and oriented but certainly lacks the ability to care for herself..If I didn't prepare her meals and deliver them to her she would presumably starve.. How is that different than the feeding tube... Physically challenged people are often dependent on others for their sustenance..So is Terri... Her caregivers feed her through a tube...

Please keep in mind that there are those of us on the left who want Terri to live... Tom Harkin, Lanny Davis, RFK Jr., half the Congressional Black Caucus are on the record as supporting Terri's right to be fed...It's also instructive as this case has worked it's way through the courts that in the few instances where judges voted for the Schindler position those judges were Democratic appointees..I digress...My beliefs inform my positions not the other way around...

As a Christian I believe that we believers are here for just a short time and Earth is just a way station on the way to Heaven... So too is it with my sister in Christ... Terri.. She will get to be with Christ as will all believers... I fault those who hastened the meeting...

Peace

Brian