I don't speak for all liberals, but liberals don't want innocent people to be murdered. In fact, we think its one of the worst possible crimes in the world to kill someone. For this reason, the Terri Schiavo issue is very tricky to deal with. Here’s the biggest thing: IF (and only IF) Terri Schiavo wanted to die then she should be allowed to. Now I don't have personal knowledge of whether or not she wanted this, nor do you have personal knowledge that she did not. Therefore, when we (liberals) say she should be allowed to have her feeding tube removed, we are accepting the judgment of 19 courts that she wanted to die. The reason this is a sticky wicket is because we also believe in the fundamental right to die if you are terminally ill. We broadly support this right, and in this case we are just affirming this right, assuming she did want to die. None of us know what she wanted, so even as I stand up and defend the right of Terri to have her feeding tube removed, I have second thoughts. What if she didn’t want it removed? So that’s why I am writing this. To affirm my belief in the right to die, not to affirm a belief in this case.
Frankly, what upset me was congress intervening in the process. This is a judicial issue, and if I was having a judicial issue and congress interfered, I'd be pretty pissed off. That is the other reason I am vocal on this issue. I think that Terri is being used for political advantage by the republicans especially, and that congress is overstepping its boundaries.
I don't know exactly what to do in this case with Terri, but what a judge has to do is look at the law, and the law says Terri is to have her feeding tube removed (and I do support upholding the law).
