"Starving for the truth"
Dennis Roddy has a remarkable, moving piece on Terri Schiavo up as of yesterday. Here's a quote:
Dennis Roddy - March 20th, 2005 The facts are these: Terri Schiavo collapsed in 1990. She has been in hospitals and nursing homes since then. Videotapes depict a young woman who seems to respond to some voice stimuli, but does not communicate. At least three affidavits are on file from former nursing home attendants who insist Terri showed some hope of making progress, but that her husband insisted she be given no rehabilitation.
One nurse, Carla Sauer Iyer, said Terri "spoke on a regular basis, saying such things as 'Mommy' and 'help me.' " Iyer said that when she put a washcloth in Terri's hands to keep her fingers from curling together, "Michael saw it and made me take it out, saying that was therapy."
The article cuts to the core of the issue, brushing away the vague appeals to a floating standard of "quality of life" and the ridiculous "I thought conservatives were for states rights?" non-argument. He also touches on how some of Terri's staunchest defenders are hurting their own cause through their extreme methods.
This article needs to be read straight through; Roddy is an exceptional writer, and this piece makes as simple and as strong an argument for keeping Schiavo alive (at least, somewhat longer) as I've yet heard.
» March 21st, 2005
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