Reply #238: The REAL issue, regardless of how anyone feels about the two cases

[MADem]

...is the disparity in treatment by the GOP. They eagerly interfere in one case, and totally ignore the other. And in the latter case, the "responsible adult" (yes, she had mental issues, but had not had her rights terminated or any due process) was denied any say.

I think that if the GOP were to REMAIN CONSISTENT, and not expose themselves to charges of hypocrisy, they should have spoken up in both cases--if they are true to their principles. By speaking up for the parents of Terri (and ignoring her husband's court-verified, court appealed, court-sanctioned rights) and ignoring the rights of the young mother, they let everyone know they are doing this to support a purely POLITICAL agenda. The message they send is: Some life is more precious than others.

As a consequence, we can only conclude that this has nothing to do with the actual lives in these cases, but it has everything to do with jerking the emotional chains of voters.

My opinion, not that it matters, is that they should let Michael Schiavo make the decisions for his wife, as the courts have ruled quite decisively that this is his right, and his alone. They should also have let the Baby Sun case have its day in court too, and had the hospital and the mother duke it out in court to establish who was responsible for the kid. Unplugging the kid without assuming legal (to say nothing of moral) responsibility first smacks to me of a purely economic decision. Had the mother been rich, right or wrong, that kid would still be hooked up.