The Congressional action in
the Terry Schaivo case is becoming like bad theater of the absurd.
Decisions on life and death are made everyday in the emergency rooms and intensive care units of American hospitals ----WITHOUT AN ACT OF CONGRESS!
Indeed, the Right to Life crowd seems to be having their "McCarthy Moment."
As when commie-hunter, Sen. Joe McCarthy, finally was exposed for the fraud and faker that he truly was.
Likewise, Right to Life may have seriously overstepped their bounds in the Schaivo case.....
Few people would call Terri Schiavo's semi-conscieous vegetative state "living." And few would want it for themselves or a loved one.
The problem is that with modern medical procedures, sometimes a "good death" is very hard to come by. There are machines now that can perform most bodily functions, even in the morbidly ill.
But, merely "oxygenating tissue" is not really living.......
At some point in the decline of the human body the organs that are failing, must simply be allowed to fail.....
Oddly, it is advanced science, so hated by the religious right, that is causing the problems of a prolonged "existence," without prolonging a good life.....or even are "real life." Few would call a vegetative state "living."
So with health care quickly draining the national wealth,.....the issue of a person's RIGHT TO DIE may be more important that their RIGHT TO LIFE......
AND, THE SCHAIVO CASE COULD BE THE STRAW THAT BREAKS THE BACK FOR THE RADICAL PRO LIFE CROWD.
JUST AS "OVER THE TOP" McCARTHYISM EVENTUALLY SOURED AMERICANS ON THE ANTI-COMMUNIST WITCH HUNTS OF THE 1950's......!
