Why do you support the decision to withdraw Terri's feeding tube?

[Ned]

I support the decision to remove the feeding tube because:

1. Terri is in a permanent vegetative state and has no hope to recover.

2. Terri clearly expressed expressed her wish not to continue living in a permanent vegetative state and we should respect her wish.

3. The supporters of Terri are primarily right wing fundies who are seeking to make a political issue this that would extend to issues other than a right to die, issues such as abortion.

4. The parents of Terri are right wing fundamentalists and should not be supported.

5. Republican politicians like Jeb Bush and President Bush support Terri.

6. Michael Schiavo has a right to get on with his life, he has a new wife and two children.

7. Michael Schiavo has a right to decide the issue both as her guardian and as her husband.

8. This is a private matter decided by the courts and we should respect their decision arrived at by due process.

[Dis]

1

[KrazyHorse]

It pisses off Catholics.

[Tuberski]

It's too late to put it back anyway.

ACK!

[Ted Striker]

She's way too hot:

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Had a hard time choosing between 7 or 8, but ultimately went with Due Process (since it actually contains the guardian claim as well).

[Ted Striker]

Ned you should make it a multiple choice poll

[alva]

Why not multiple choice?

1, 2 , 6, 7 & 8
Mostly 1 or 2 though.

EDIT: added six, read too quickly

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Ted Striker
She's way too hot:

Ted striker

[Ari Rahikkala]

9. All of the above

[mrmitchell]

I'm back! Pictures later today, from DC and France.

This was in the papers in France, and I'm torn on it. Even in Terris case, as in any human's case, we murder her when we remove the feeding tube. It doesn't matter how much of a vegetable they are, if you kill someone, it is murder. And stranger things have happened than if Terri recovered. There was a man in Arkansas a year? ago who had been in an accident and I'm pretty sure had been in a 20 year coma or something close to being "vegetative" and then just before Valentine's Day he talked.

I didn't get to read much about her in France, but as I understand, they haven't done any x-rays, MRI scans, whatever they need to, on her, why?

Now, on the other hand, Mr. Schiavo is her husband, and if anyone should have the right to decide it, it should be him, and he has made his decision. And the courts have agreed with his decision, so that's that.

BUT she shouldn't be killed by starving her. Even death row inmates aren't starved to death. Give her a lethal injection or something, just not starvation.

And it's only been made worse by how sad it is that our politicians make a political issue out of a woman who has been a vegetable for 15 years. What has America come to, do we not know how to respect a husband's decision? A court's decision? A woman who should by now be dead?

[Spiffor]

1 and 6


And Mrmitchell, why didn't you PM me!

[Urban Ranger]

1, 2, and 7

[Last Conformist]

This should've been multiple choice.

And no, it isn't murder - murder is unlawful malicious killing.

[SpencerH]

Where's the poll for those who dont support it?