I swore I was not going to post on Terri or anything on Resurrection Sunday ... so much for my word! Well, what's done is done ... anyway my promise was to myself. What made me change my mind? Reading this morning's Scotsman News did.
I knew it would happen, international pro-life writers with a venue to express themselves, who understood the issue, would see how that Grand Ol' Lady, the United States of America, had turned a corner in the moral eye of the world.
Gerald Warner writes ...
Read the rest for yourself.Last week, before the eyes of the whole world, the nation that has pledged to export its values to the rest of the globe set about starving and dehydrating one of its citizens to death. That it did so against the wishes of the president, Congress and the people only added to the horror of the situation. ....The Schiavo case has been hugely misrepresented in the media, not least by the BBC, which has reported it under a ‘Right to Die’ caption. It is not about the right to die: it is about the right to kill. The weasel term ‘persistent vegetative state’ has been attached to Mrs Schiavo, although her husband has refused to have her tested to establish her clinical status. Terri Schiavo is not a vegetable; she is not on a life-support machine; she does not have any tubes attached to her body. She has received visitors, out of bed and fully dressed. Her feeding tube was not "removed", since it had never been a permanent attachment: doctors, constrained by court order, stopped connecting it to her at mealtimes.
Warner rightly understands the issue here is not about the law; Hitler, Amin, Stalin, and Pol Pot also had "the law" behind them. This is not about the law, it is about right and wrong, and what is going on in Florida at this very moment is flat out 100% wrong.
"For the person who knows the right thing to do, and does it not, to him it is sin!" [James 4:17]
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment