For those of you outside the area, Lars Larson is a local conservative talk radio host. He's recently gone national, so see if your local station carries him. He sent me this e-mail today, sharing his thoughts on the death of Terri Schiavo:
She’s dead and gone back to God. So what have we learned in the fourteen days of the death and life of Terri Schiavo? Some in America now endorse execution via torture for the cognitively disabled. They have no access to the federal courts without an act of congress. Terri would have enjoyed more rights as a terrorist or a convicted serial killer. Some top notch so-called bio ethicists figure that the so called “cognitively disabled” aren’t entitled to be considered persons… and we’re on the verge of what one writer (Wesley Smith) calls “strip mining” the bodies of the disabled for transplant organs. Starvation isn’t euphoric despite what the New York Times says. A husband doesn’t necessarily have the right to kill a woman he no longer treats like his wife. And some political parties stand in favor of life… while others endorse a culture of death.
We're learned a good chuck of this country, including the libertarian wing of the republican party is (1) scared of any morality and (2) thinks letting a woman starve to death is fine.
Posted by: Kevin | Friday, 01 April 2005 at 07:10 AM