[TruthTalk] Terri Schiavo

[Judy Taylor]

Is anyone else as troubled about the Schiavo business as me?  I recall Izzy addressing the medical part of it about a week ago. At this point I can't believe it keeps going on and on and that now she is in her 6th day without food or water with armed guards at the door to make sure noone gives her food or drink.  Everyone seems to be forgetting that this is a human being with family who love her and that she is being forced by our "humane" Judiciary to starve to death.   I know there has to be a lot more to it than what meets the eye and I've been trying to figure out what's in it for the ex-husband who is responsible for the 'status-quo' - Why is he so insistent in enforcing her death after 15yrs (during which has not let any grass grow under his feet). He apparently used $300,000.00 of the medical malpractice settlement for his own education and needs and is presently living with a new common-law-wife and their two children.  Yet even as he lives in open adultery he is on TV insisting that he is Terri's husband and he loves her?  If Michael Schiavo loves Terri so much then why not divorce her and let the Schlinders and her siblings take on the responsibility which they are more than willing to do.  An anonymous donor in CA even offered Michael Schiavo $1 million with no strings attached if he would release her to her parents and Michael refused.   Apparently both sides of the battle are being funded by others because the legal process is so costly (and IMO a big waste of time).  Last night I learned that Michael Schiavo's main backer is the ACLU so now the picture becomes a little clearer.  I know Terri's parents are RC and very religious as they have priests and their spiritual advisers around them all the time. Last night someone read part of their petition to the court which shocked me because it was so full of RC doctrine involving Terri's soul, purgatory and other RC religious rhetoric rather than the emergency at hand,  but then that's where they are at and it must be hard at this point to see the forest for the trees.  Terri's last hope seems to be Jeb Bush if he can get by that one Judge who is causing all the trouble.  What a travesty.   Interesting though that the ACLU who is funding Michael Schiavo also funded the Scopes trial back in 1925. They stood behind John Scopes the young Science teacher who spoke of Darwinism to his High School students. Look how we have progressed in the past 80yrs.  So now Terri has become "a vegetable" in the eyes of some and just one more political pawn in a culture of death.