[lbo-talk] Trying To Understand Marta's POV

C. G. Estabrook galliher at alexia.lis.uiuc.edu
Fri Mar 25 09:13:11 PST 2005


"People already have the right to refuse unwanted treatment, and suicide is not illegal. What we oppose is a public policy that singles out individuals for legalized killing based on their health status. This violates the Americans With Disabilities Act, and denies us equal protection of the laws. Disability opposition to this ultimate form of discrimination has been ignored by most media and courts, but countless people with disabilities have already died before their time." --Not Dead Yet: The Resistance, a disability rights organization, Forest Park, Illinois, October 28, 2003.

Whatever else is going on in the Terri Schiavo case, legally and politically, it seems clearly to be "legalized killing based on [her] health status." It's been to justify that -- or to cover it up -- that such pains have been taken to establish in court that that is what Terri (would have) wanted. --CGE



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