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St. Petersburg Times Endorses Starving Terri
The St. Petersburg Times published an editorial today calling for Florida officials to stay out of the case involving Terri Schiavo. In doing so, the paper has callously endorsed the purposeful starvation of a living, responsive and otherwise healthy individual who has suffered brain damage.
The Times labels those it disagrees with as "lobbying", "obstructionists", engaging in a "public circus", part of an "unseemly ploy" and using "various schemes". What the paper forgot to do was provide substance to back up their ad hominem attacks against those who believe the purposeful ending of a life (killing) through starvation is wrong. Perhaps this is because they would rather ignore the fact that Terri has a limited vocabulary, struggles to talk, interacts with her parents, smiles, laughs and can swallow. Maybe they ran out of investigative reporters to look into the multiple fractures that appeared on Terri Schiavo's bone scans after her "incident". They were probably unable to find the depositions of Terri's nurses who revealed Terri can talk and swallow. And, I have to believe that they were misinformed about horrific nature of death via starvation. They must trust Michael Schiavo and forgot about the experts that testified Terri may improve with therapy. The Times must not have interviewed the Schindlers because they make no mention of the allegations of neglect and abuse.
Gov. Bush and the Legislature are criticized by the Times for previously intervening and now "... they have no business acting as obstructionists again in a controversy that needs to come to a conclusion." The only conclusion that this “controversy” will come to without intervention is the death of Terri. Is the Times reporting that "Terri needs to die?"
Finally, is there any correlation between this editorial and the Times' initial refusal to publish the BlogsforTerri’s advertisement without major changes?
Posted by tim at February 26, 2005 12:12 AM
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