Please correct me if I have my facts wrong.
Terry Schiavo has been brain-dead for about 15 years. She has lived only through force-feeding through a tube, unable to communicate or make any meaningful movement.
Her husband and lifetime partner now believes it is time to "let her go" to her maker. By law, he has the final say in this matter. That right has now been upheld through the court system.
Her parents (who love her very much) want her to remain alive, albeit in a vegetative state. The court system has denied them this right, giving it instead to her legally sancitoned partner.
Am I correct so far? HUH?
Allow me to turn the table upside down, please.
If Terry were a lesbian with a lifetime partner, her parents would have the right, by law, to make this life or death decision. Ignore the lifetime partner (who loves her very much).
Is this irony? Is this hypocrisy? Or is it just a bunch of right-wing politicians attempting to force their beliefs on the rest of us? Whether we like it or not.
2 comments:
Yes.
Yes. : incongruity between a situation developed in a drama and the accompanying words or actions that is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play
Maybe :the false assumption of an appearance of virtue or religion
Yes
I believe you already know my thoughts on this subject.
Life time partner? But he has re-married years ago..!
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