[lbo-talk] Shiavo "Forbidden video"

[Michael Dawson]

No, Miles is right: Marta is trippin, and this reflects very, very poorly on
her overall politics.  For one thing, Marta, do YOU wish to be preserved in
the vegetable state?  I severely doubt it.  But, perhaps you do.  Perhaps
you feel like its politically and intellectually correct to say everybody
who isn't decomposing is just "disabled."  I find that to be a position that
deeply discredits your excellent work on behalf of the truly disabled.  I
think the general public would concur.  Disability is a status that still
presumes humanity, meaning existence of some gray matter and active
function.

Even if one disagrees with that, it can't help Marta that she's so barkingly
irrational about this.  She displays a completely cavalier attitude to the
evidence.  The doctors killed her -- she could swallow and eat and drink --
she had conscious reactions -- all that is starkly refuted by the amazingly
indulgent M.D. the judge appointed in 2003 as GAL.  Raise that with Marta
and she tells you about a case where somebody with a different problem
recovered...


> -----Original Message-----
> From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org]
> On Behalf Of John Adams
> Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 7:29 PM
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Shiavo "Forbidden video"
> 
> On Apr 8, 2005, at 10:07 PM, Miles Jackson wrote:
> 
> > Marta's not interested in the facts of
> > the case; she's intent on repeating the antiabortion nutso talking
> > points
> > on this.  I just don't get it.
> 
> I get it. She's speaking in the interests of an oppressed group--the
> disabled--and as their advocate, she's making whatever argument she can
> make on their behalf. Since the original trial (to the best of my
> knowledge) was held before the parents' got their hands on enough money
> to get a good original trial record, it's possible the original
> findings were sufficiently flawed as to not be reliable during the
> appeals process. Given that flaw at the beginning of the process, she
> thinks (I think) there's strong doubt that Terry Schiavo was actually
> in such bad shape as to have life support withdrawn, and given the
> stakes, she's taking allies wherever she can find them.
> 
> I disagree with her, but I don't find her position impossible to
> understand.
> 
> 	John A
> 
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