Schiavo update

Tonight's headline news story continues to be a status update on the Terri Schiavo case. My deepest sympathies go out to the family for this very unfortunate situation, but I am appalled that they continue to litigate this matter, politicians are involved, and they don't let the poor woman die in peace. All the polls I've seen say that something like two-thirds of the nation thinks the woman should be allowed to die. The uncontroverted evidence in the endless court trials over the past seven years says that the woman did not want to live like this.

When are the damned Evangelicals who've conscripted the Republican Party going to remember that the party stands for state's rights and limited governmental interference in private citizens' lives? This isn't a religious issue. After all, someone in a persistent vegetative state isn't able to tithe! Plus, they've made such a big issue about preserving the sanctity of marriage and opposing "gay marriage," you'd think the Evangelicals would want to support a husband's difficult decision to make hard choices for his brain-damaged wife, instead of trying to undercut the marriage and shift control to the woman's parents.

I zipped off handwritten complaints earlier this week to all the Congressional leadership and all the Republicans in Congress I personally know when they pulled the shenanigans of doing a private bill. They don't need to be reinserting feeding tubes. What they need is to do is to appropriate money for the parents to get grief counseling and face the music that their daughter is a soon-to-be dead vegetable.

My tax dollars had better not be paying for that woman's care.