What is the Terri Schiavo Case Really About?
What is the Terri Schiavo Case Really About? Tuesday March 29, 2005 Now that much of the Terri Schiavo case are winding down, it would be helpful to take a look back and review what the real issues actually were. They weren’t about euthanasia or disabilities or any of the other things that the Christian Right tried to claim. The Economist explains: Why should Mrs Schiavo not be handed over to her loving parents? The answer from the Florida courts is not that her medical condition makes her death so inevitable that it would be merciful to speed it up. Nor is the answer that her death would be convenient to the husband who is her legal guardian (if that were so, husbands would be free to kill their wives). Nor is it, as Professor Robert George, a member of George Bush’s Council on Bioethics, has suggested, that America has adopted a standard of life unworthy of life which means Mrs Schiavo can be legitimately killed (he used the Nazi term, lebensun
