The American Spectator

Martin Kelly br> Glasgow, Scotland /p> p> A ministry of our church is to have a Sunday service in eight nursing homes and retirement homes in our surrounding area. We get to know and love the sweet folks that are there. There are estimates that 60% of all U.S. citizens will be in a nursing home facility sometime in their lives. If we had a liberal judge judging the “quality of life” of these people, none would live. They would be a drain on society, especially on the Social Security system and Medicaid system. The likelihood is that I will be in a facility like that. With the average lifespan excluding accidental death reaching above 100 years of age, you can expect to be there. Will this decision of Shiavo allow for anyone to be terminated? It will be your mom, your dad, your sister. YOU. br> — Jeff Elliott /p> p> As Bandow says, Schiavo’s case is tragic and complicated. The trial judge in the case, George Greer, has made decisions that have had detractors call for his impeachment. The impressive thing about his handling of the case is that, unlike the federal judges now involved, he has to run for re-election every six years. br> — Karl Maher /p> p> As of this writing, I don’t know how the Terri case is going to end. I would like to add my observations though. Everyone has put in their two cents on both sides of this “debate.” What debate? Are we talking about some animal here? This is a woman who is being killed by an abusive husband, a husband who has so much love for his disabled wife that he shacked up and produced children with another woman. This is a person who should be tried for attempted murder, not debated over or have laws passed to stop him. I agree that the Terri law is needed now to try to put an end to others who feel killing disabled people is alright but in this case, this man has broken existing law already. Why hasn’t Jeb Bush brought in the full enforcement of the law? If this was a minor child, you can bet the police would have removed that child to safety and ensured a full review by competent medical personnel. Teri is helpless as a child and under the same need of protection. To all those so-called conservatives who are for starving this woman to death. I would advise you to rethink your position. No matter what lame argument you may want to use, you are endorsing the exact same tactics a certain group of Germans used almost 70 years ago. Yes, this case is a watershed. It strips bare exactly where people in this country stand. Not very pretty is it my friends? br> —