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br> -- Stephen Foulard br> Houston, Texas /p> p> What does reader Parker know about the background of the neurologist whose testimony was found to show by no more than "clear and convincing" evidence that Terri is in a persistent vegetative state? Or is he waiting for a "news report" on that from the same network that sought out input from Dr. Kevorkian, who's doing 10-25? The court adopted the opinion of a "right to kill" neurologist (see Appleton Consensus -- Cranford) who, among other things, advocates killing to save scarce medical resources. Ben Stein has no "burden" to "prove" anything. br> -- Alfred Stanbury /p>

Perhaps nothing better illustrates the cultural divide separating blue state voters from their red state counterparts than what has happened in Florida in recent weeks. Within hours of Terri Schiavo having her feeding tube removed by order of a Florida judge, a registered sex offender confessed to kidnapping and murdering a 9-year-old Florida girl. Assuming he is convicted and sentenced to death, which of the two do you think will command the left's sympathy? Will it be the severely handicapped Ms. Schiavo, who is slowly being starved to death through a denial of food and water? Or will it be a confessed murderer who may soon find himself sitting on death row?

When those on the left support life, invariably it is the life of the death-row inmate or of a terrorist in some far away prison. Otherwise, the left promotes a culture of death with its support of abortion on demand and the homosexual death-style. And now the gates to their morbid domain are opening wider to include euthanizing the handicapped!

Nurses have testified that Schiavo has been denied basic rehabilitative care by her husband. And for years she has been confined to her room like a prisoner. Now as she lies dying, not even an ice cube can be used to comfort her dry, cracked lips. Is she a human being with intrinsic value and worth? Or is she a piece of property to be discarded at the discretion of her husband? Where are the women of NOW?

p>The left would have us believe that we are expanding the frontiers of human dignity by allowing this helpless woman to die. But more than likely we are taking a step backwards to a dark and tragic past. Schiavo’s death now appears inevitable but when she dies she won’t go alone. With her will die the left’s credibility of ever speaking in the name of compassion again. br> -- Thomas M. Beattie /p>

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