Terri Schiavo Can Be Starved, But a Dog Deserves Better? - 12 Nov 2003
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...A leading pro-family advocate says if Terri Schiavo's husband and the courts had their way, the disabled Florida woman wouldn't get the basic care to which even a dog is legally entitled. Thirty-nine-year-old Terri Schiavo remains alive today because the Florida legislature intervened and stopped a court-ordered starvation that her husband claimed was the "humane" thing to do. But Janet Folger, founder and president of Faith2Action, says Terri's husband Michael and many supporters of euthanasia have tried to sell the lie that slow starvation is a painless death. The pro-life spokeswoman shares that while standing outside the Florida facility where Terri was being starved, she asked the police officers standing guard if they would arrest her if she, in protest to Terri's situation, chose to starve a dog to death. Folger says they told her that yes, they would arrest her. "I think that says something very clearly," she says. "Here they stood guard while a disabled woman was being denied food and water while she was being starved to death -- and yet if I attempted to do the same thing to a dog, I would have been arrested." Folger says the American public must realize that no one has the authority to determine the value of a human life -- and in Terri's case, especially not her husband, who Folger points out would benefit financially from his wife's death. |