Robert P. George on Terri Schiavo on National Review

As Terri prepares to leave the earth, I find this interview very telling. He's even a professor of law at Princeton.

Ultimately I can't see why, without the evil husband (who better find a deep hole to crawl in), the parents cannot simply take custody. Anyone who has children must understand what they're going through. I don't care if she is essentially a brain stem. This is about them, and her, and seeing that the default condition of humanity is not relegation to death, but a deferrence to life. Who wouldn't care for this woman?
I'm deeply disturbed by the medical industry, which is really at fault here since the judiciary must follow their advice. If there was hope, I'm sure they'd side with Terri. But why not let the parents have their baby back? After all, the lurch of a husband has caved on his vows of life until death, let them pick up the mantle.

Of course, this is now day 7 of her starvation, and despite the belief that its a peaceful way to go, every breathing, drinking, eating human must recoil at this legal murder. I know a faster way we can get rid of her.... why not put a gun to her head? No pain at all then.

I leave with a quote from the article:


"What we must avoid, always and everywhere, is yielding to the temptation to regard some human lives, or the lives of human beings in certain conditions, as lebensunwerten Lebens, lives unworthy of life. Since the life of every human being has inherent worth and dignity, there is no valid category of lebensunwerten Lebens. Any society that supposes that there is such a category has deeply morally compromised itself. As Leon Kass recently reminded us in a powerful address at the Holocaust Museum, it was supposedly enlightened and progressive German academics and medical people who put their nation on the road to shame more than a decade before the Nazis rose to power by promoting a doctrine of eugenics based precisely on the proposition that the lives of some human beings — such as the severely retarded — are unworthy of life."

Robert P. George on Terri Schiavo on National Review