Voices speaking for one that is silenced. - First note. The photo. It's a victim of the Holocaust in Nazi Germany where starvation was routinely used to eliminate people that Hitler and his government viewed as not worth living. You make your own connection. I found it at this link.
This post is a compilation of some voices around the weblog world speaking for Terri Schiavo. It's by no means exhaustive, thank God. Track back if you too have had something to say for Terri.
But first let me get two non-blog items out of the way. View this video interview that FOX&FRIENDS had with a nurse who cared for Terri. Hat tip goes to Dory at Wittenberg Gate. Watch it. It's stunning. Note also that if you can't view it with the WindowsMedia player then use the option to view it with the Real Player.
Next, Steven Ertelt reports with this headline for LifeNews.com, ""Media Bias in Terri Schiavo Case at Extreme Levels in AP, Reuters Reports."
Now for the blogs in no particular order.
My blog friend Stacy at MediaSoul challenges us to "Write for Life." She begins:
It has been said that death and life are in the power of the tongue. I say that life and death are also in the power of the pen, as we've all seen today by yet another judge without a spine who is a total coward and in my opinion immoral.
Dory at Wittenberg Gate pens the post, "Comfortable." Here's a snippet:
It seems that those on the other side of this case consider the two options, that is, living with severe disabilities on the one hand, and dying on the other, to be basically equal. There is no presumption that life is better.
That wonder woman, La Shawn Barber, is "Distressed:"
I’ve been trying to suppress this feeling, but I can’t stand the thought of Terri Schiavo lying in that bed slowly dying, while people who love her can only watch. THIS IS NOT RIGHT!!! Her mother is watching her child die.
Bryan at The Narrow proclaims, "Life, Liberty and the Right to Die," and then asks:
Of the three, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, which ones were afforded Terri during this grevious battle? In my estimation not one. Instead Michael and Judge Greer have decided that her quality of life isn't good enough to continue. Disabled people everywhere should be very scared by this.
That "Christian Conservative", Michael Gallaugher, in his post, "Terri Schiavo," reminds us of some scripture.
For I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’....
That great thinker, Joe Carter, pens, "Still in the World: A Pro-Life View of Death and Dying", and starts by sharing the last days of his mother's suffering with the pain of cancer:
I’d load the needle with morphine and feel a strange impulse, similar to the urge to jump that overcomes you when you stand on the edge of a bridge. All it would take is an extra dose, I thought. My family would wake in the morning to a sense of guility relief and damned up grief. No one would know. There’d be no questions. There’d be no autopsy. The waiting and the pain and the dying would be over.
But the longer I sat watching her labored breathing the more I realized how precious was life, even in the midst of such suffering.
The truth sayer, Steve Bragg, at Double Toothpicks, posts, "Arrested! For Taking Water To A Dying Woman?! Wake Up, America!:
What is HAPPENING in this country? FEAR, FIRE, FOES, AWAKE! Pay attention! A woman is being executed by a federal judge and her conniving 'husband' without her Constitutionally provided due process of law! And they are ARRESTING people who DARE try to keep Terri alive!
Be sure to click over to some if not all of these weblogs and then let your voice be heard.
The Great Separation continues.
