The autopsy results are in for Terri Schiavo now, showing that all the rumors that her husband had a hand in her "accident" were all bogus and consequently her being in a "persistent vegetative state" was not his fault and it was a morally compassionate act for him to stop using "artificial means" to sustain her life.
Right?
That’s the impression you’d get from reading certain anti-life press reports.
Even if it were established that Terri’s condition was not her husband’s fault, it in no way follows that he was able to licitly starve the poor woman to death.
As to the autopy results and what they do and do not show,
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One thing about the press conference announcing the autopsy results struck me as strange. They guy presenting the results employed a tone of voice more appropriate to a scholding schoolmarm than a dispassionate scientist.
He seemed to be chiding Terri’s family and supporters while delivering the results, as if to say, “See, see? We told you she wasn’t abused. Now go stand in the corner!” Strange.
In Jesu et Maria,
Sorry, it is WRONG to starve and dehydrate a helpless woman to death. Even if she’s brain-damaged, and even if her husband really, really dislikes her parents. It’s still wrong.
Don’t suppose that’s ever occurred to Scolding Schoolmarm, I guess…
One of the daily papers here in NYC quoted a nurse as saying that it was pointless to give Terry life support.
I am never going to that hospital.
“Till death do us part” — after Terri’s death, does her husband still have a claim on her body or could “ownership” legally revert back to her family?