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

[C. G. Estabrook]

"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