My 2011 memorial to Terri Schiavo appears below. A modified version of last year's, it was printed as a letter in yesterday's edition of The Hays Daily News. An indignant utilitarianist reader soon posted a comment at the paper's website, insisting that Terri's husband, Michael Schiavo, had made the decision to end Terri's life only after "prayerful" consideration.
A "prayerful" killer. Right.
As I pointed out in rebuttal, divorcing Terri wasn't enough for Michael; he wanted her dead. Michael intended to cash in on a million-dollar settlement, most of which had been allocated for Terri's care. This is why Michael refused to relinquish custody of Terri to her parents, ended her physical therapy and enlisted the help of euthanasia advocates.
The battle over Terri was a simple matter of right and wrong. It doesn't take a law degree to see this, but a vigorous effort was made to make it seem so. Why? Because the mass slaughter of human beings-- whether in wombs, petri dishes or nursing homes-- cannot go forward without a pall of lies to confuse onlookers and conceal the truth.
In the selfish world of utilitarianism, no one gets prayerful consideration...
Last week marked the sixth anniversary of the court-ordered killing of Terri Schindler Schiavo, an innocent, harmless and defenseless woman who succumbed to two weeks of forced starvation on March 31, 2005.
Terri was not dying or brain-dead and she wasn't on any kind of life support. Terri’s needs were being provided by caregivers, no differently than infants, toddlers and many elderly are cared for. But these facts didn't stop judges, politicians and pundits from painting her unworthy of life. Beholden to the all-powerful abortion lobby, they rushed to the cause of an adulterous, impatient and greedy husband who wanted her dead and forgotten.
Indeed, the battle for Terri’s life proved especially nerve-racking for the abortion industry, its champions in the media and its minions in government. In spite of their unprecedented legislative and judicial victories and the consequent slaughter of millions, these enablers of industrialized death know that killing for convenience can’t be taken for granted. So they trivialized, derided, even vilified a disabled woman lying in a Florida nursing home. After all, any legislative action or judicial decision to continue feeding her might have been viewed as validating her life. And that might have led to validating human life in a broader context.
Perhaps none of this should come as a surprise. Even before Roe v. Wade, America had begun devolving toward a loose association of self-centered individuals who tolerate others only so long as they prove useful. Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Maryland) personifies this utilitarian attitude; in 2009, while defending efforts to socialize American medicine, she declared abortion “preventive health care.” And thanks to the Democrat majority then in Congress, anti-life bureaucrats like Health & Human Services boss Kathleen Sebelius now can shunt billions to “community health centers” like Planned Parenthood and other purveyors of contraception, sterilization and abortion.
In the long run, this means fewer and fewer taxpayers and ever tighter government budgets. How, then, will self-serving politicians maintain the gargantuan entitlement programs they rely upon for votes? The answer is clear. Unable to increase revenues, they’ll decrease expenditures. For Barack Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and like-minded politicians, killing is once again the answer. Just as they’ve sold abortion to generations indoctrinated in radical feminism, they’ll sell euthanasia to a stunted electorate saddled with trillions in debt and a graying population of unproductive consumers. Just as “reproductive health care” became code for dismembering children in utero, “geriatric health care” will become the polite term for smothering grandparents in rest homes. All that’s needed is to codify it, as some states have begun doing through assisted suicide. And as Catholic bishops and other observers have pointed out, Obamacare paves the way for it on the federal level.
If Obamacare is ever fully implemented, voters should not be surprised when they find that Terri’s fate is their own, final reward for having supported America’s party of death.
What goes around does, indeed, come around.
For more information, go to www.terrisfight.org
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