You think I’m talking about unborn babies? Well, not today. Today I’m talking about Terri Schiavo. A Florida court ruled today that the court ordered stay in the case be dropped. This means that Michael Schiavo (an evil man if I’ve ever seen one) could have his ex-wife’s feeding tube removed as early as this afternoon. Beyond the fact that there are some very valid questions about Michael’s involvement in his wifes condition, the Florida court has just sentenced an Innocent woman to a death so horrible that we don’t even use it on our most heinous criminals; starvation.

What do I know about feeding tubes and euthanasia? For one, I had a feeding tube. I also know what it’s like to be trapped in a body when nobody knows if your there or not mentally. I can’t imagine being starved to death via feeding tube and not being able to let anyone know you want to live.

What was this womans crime? What did she do to deserve death by starvation? She’s disabled. She can’t speak for herself. Her ex-husband Michael says she told him that she didn’t want to live like “this”, but there is no written record of her saying this. Her parents never heard it, she never put it in writing, her ex-husband –who now has a new girlfriend and stands to inherit a sum of money– is the only one who ever heard her say this (if indeed she did say it).

What to do? I’m not sure there’s anything we can do. I plan on making my voice heard. I will call my congressman, I will call the Florida Governors office, and I will continue to speak out about Terri’s fight until the day she dies.

What can our government do about it? They can start by saying this is unconstitutional to kill an innocent person. They can stop it on the grounds that it is cruel and unusual punishment. They can stop it by looking into the circumstances surrounding her injury and postponing the removal of the feeding tube until the questions surrounding her injury are answered.

Anyway you look at this, removing her feeding tube is a horrible thing to do. It cannot be allowed to happen.

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