A SOLUTION FOR TERRI SCHIAVO: MAKE HER A PART OF A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION
By Michael J. Gaynor
from MichNews.com
Mar 1, 2005
When a man promises to be faithful to his wife "until death do us part," at the least, that wife should have a right NOT to be starved to death at his urging, particularly when it is apparent that he has been unfaithful to her and would benefit from her dying sooner rather than later.
Even if he conveniently claims she would want that.
And especially when her parents and siblings are eager to care for her.
His second family obviously has replaced Terri for him.
Letting him kill Terri would be another judicial travesty.
Barbara Kralis, who has championed keeping Terri alive, reports:
"Terri Schiavo is non-terminal, non-PVS, she is not near death, she is not even sick. Terri can speak a few words and expresses joy and excitement at seeing her family. In fact, Terri can be trained from requiring the 'feeding tube.' Terri suffers from brain damage or cognitive disability, which can be treated and improved, although there are varying 'opinions' as to the degree of improvement expected. To date, her estranged, adulterous husband, Michael Schiavo, has curiously withheld this traditional, basic therapy from Terri."
Terri Shiavo's husband is hellbent (yes, that's the word) on having death part Terri from him as soon as possible.
He already has another woman and has fathered two children by her.
Perhaps he would marry again if Terri died.
We know he doesn't want to divorce Terri and let Terri's parents and siblings care for her.
Why an adulterer has such an aversion to divorce, I don't know.
Why a loving husband would not have paid physical therapists to help Terri instead of attorneys to dispose of her as soon as possible, I don't know.
But, it seems reasonable to suspect that Terri's husband does not want Terri to be rehabilitated to the point where she could communicate information detrimental to him.
And THAT points toward a solution for Terri.
Terri suffered significant physical injuries before the accident that left her disabled.
Perhaps one or more of those injuries was criminally inflicted.
Surely Florida should not participate in a possible cover up of a crime by hastening Terri's death!
Especially Florida's judiciary.
Terri's body is...EVIDENCE!
And Terri is a possible witness.
Who needs therapy in order to communicate.
It's time for Florida to give Terri the therapy her husband has denied her.
And to take ample time to investigate the possibility that Terri was the victim of one or more crimes.
If a news report I heard is right, Terri's husband already has spent more than $500,000 of the money Terri received as a result of her "accident" on legal fees and expenses incurred for the purpose of winning him the right to starve her to death.
The husband is Terri's legal guardian.
And he claims Terri would have wanted to be starved to death.
Even though Terri is a Roman Catholic.
And being starved to death is horrendous.
Pro-life people and faithful Catholics don't accept Terri's husband's claim of "right" to do wrong.
But, enough bad "judges" have accepted it.
Notwithstanding the efforts of Florida's Governor, Jeb Bush, and legislature.
The kind of judges who solemnly assure us that they know better than the people's elected representatives.
And that a husband with a blatant conflict of interest is within his rights in starving his now disabled wife and then inherit from her and move on with his life, perhaps by marrying a healthier woman (who better stay healthy, if she wants to stay alive, maybe even the mother of his two children.
In addition to reporting on Terri's condition, Barbara Kralis' latest article accurately diagnosed a grievous affliction of America:
"America suffers from the rule of judges supplanting the rule of law and the will of the people. Men in black robes, rather than legislators, are making and repealing laws. Man's laws and natural laws are being undermined not by legal reasoning but fiat."
Not all of the culprits in black robes are men.
Some are women.
ALL of them are unwilling to respect the natural law principle that human life from conception to natural death is a right that is not subject to the whim of the state or a spouse who manages to secure guardianship rights over a disabled spouse whose death would benefit him financially and free him to remarry some gullible person who expects better luck than Terri had as his first wife.
Ms. Kralis classified Terri Schiavo's case as a "judicial homicide case."
That's still premature.
But, if Terri DOES die as a result of being deprived of food and water with judicial approval, as requested by her guardian spouse, it WILL be precisely that.
Circuit Judge George Greer of Pinellas County, Florida, no longer "comfortable" in granting Terri another "stay of execution," ordered that on March 18, 2005, Terri's feeding tube will be removed, so that she can die relatively soon thereafter a most painful death by starvation/dehydration.
Something needs to be done!
Terri's is NOT a case of a person being kept alive by extraordinary means.
Food, water and feeding tubes are ordinary means of sustaining life.
Terri is a Roman Catholic.
The Roman Catholic Church teaches that it is sinful to remove "nutrition and hydration" from a person who is ill or near death.
Pope John Paul II himself made it clear that "nutrition and hydration" must be provided, not withheld to hasten death.
He called it "euthanasia by omission."
Cardinal Renato Martino, president of the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, appealed to Judge Greer and Terri's determined husband and his "right-to-die" attorney not to kill Terri.
Cardinal Martino warned:
"If Mr. Schiavo succeeds legally in causing the death of his wife, this not only would be tragic in itself, but would be a grave step toward the legal approval of euthanasia in the United States.
"I would like to remind everyone in this connection, about all that the Holy Father has said in past days to the Pontifical Academy for Life, confirming that the quality of life is not interpreted as economic success, beauty and physical pleasure, but consists in the supreme dignity of the creature made in the image and likeness of God."
Florida's Catholic bishops should memorize Cardinal Martino's words and act.
If Mr. Shiavo is a practicing Catholic, his bishop should tell him that he will be excommunicated if he does not repent.
Terri Schiavo certainly is not near death, which is why extraordinary efforts are being made to kill her.
A compassionate caregiver, especially a loving husband, would not want to cause Terri excruciating pain and agony due to withdrawal of food and water.
Let the Florida police investigate whether Terri was a battered wife.
And let the Florida judiciary review whether Terri's faithless husband is a suitable guardian.
Unless Terri is of no use in possible criminal proceedings and her faithless husband IS a suitable guardian, even the Florida judiciary should feel constrained to let her live.
Thoughts or comments...?
