calling all Pro-Lifers to step up
Please contact your local politicians regarding your stand on the Schavio issue.
Pray and seek God on her behalf and for her family, our justices and lawmakers.
What a terribly difficult thing. We need wisdom- not emotion,
courage- not confusion, and most of all we need conviction and not political grand-standing.
SallyC
Please, Sally, this woman has died. Let her family mourn her. As a nurse, I know that this type of death happens hundreds of times per day, all over the country. Probably people you know. The difference here was that the families didn't agree, as most eventually do before they decide on this most difficult option.
This family missed their best option, which had happened years before, when she was still ventilator dependent. Then they could have performed a "terminal wean" from the vent, put her on a morphine drip, and let her slip away. The option that was finally chosen, however, was also humane. These patients are not allowed to be in pain, they are medicated.
Finally, pro-choice people are also pro-life. We just feel that any life and death decisions should be between the patient, their doctors, and their God, whoever that may be, and that the government should stay away from their bedsides.
Thanks for your thoughts.
Bonnie
Please observe the date of the post. It was posted days BEFORE her passing.
I respect your opinion and your profession. However everyone no matter their profession, has a right to an opinion on this tragic issue and have the right to seek assistance from public officials, if they feel strongly about something.
I am not in the health profession, does that make my opinion on this useless? I have held a dying family member, felt the sting of grief and death, and have been involved in a very similar situation.
Unfortunately, the family couldn't resolve the dispute, they used the media, and the media ran with it. Thus, we all have our feelings and opinions.
I need help understanding your last paragraph? How can someone be pro-choice and pro-life at the same time? That is an oxy-moron statement.
Please respond, I really want to understand.
Thanks for your thoughts.
Sally
Sally,
Pro-choice does not mean pro-death. We all love life. We all support life. We just don't believe that politicians should tell us exactly when life should begin or end. This is the most personal of choices and should be between the individual and their God. This is what is meant by pro-choice. How can anyone argue against that???
Bonnie B
When humans begin to decide whether life is worth living or ending than they themselves become God. God is the giver, the sustainer and taker of life.
Being pro-choice means the person feels "the right" to use death or to kill as an option to solve a problem or situation. Pro-life means there is NO option, other than life. You simply cannot be both.
Politians do not determine exactly when life begins or ends, it's God that does, no one else.
Let me share.........
I was standing in line at the grocery store last week, an elderly lady moved slowly and held up the line. Most were paitent with her febble attempts to hurry. However, the bagger was not and clearly showed her frustration. After the lady shuffled away and apologized for not being as quick as she once was, I smiled and said to the cashier, "One day that'll be one of us."
In response to my comments, the bagger said loudly, "If I ever start to be like that, I hope they overdose me!" "Can't she see she's holding things up for everyone, what is she doing out during the rush of the day?" "I'm telling ya', just overdose me, if I ever get like that, useless!"
Where do you think that kind of thought process begins? It begins when people feel they have the right to end life if it is not sufficient or full of purpose. Having a right to kill or end life is the basis for the culture of death thinking, the pro-choice movement.
Bonnie, I can argue against that til' my last breath, which I hope only God will decide to take.
Looking forward to further debates.
Sally
"Being pro-choice means the person feels "the right" to use death or to kill as an option to solve a problem or situation. Pro-life means there is NO option, other than life. You simply cannot be both."
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NO option, unless of course, we're talking about a convicted murder, but then all bets are off.
Please be realistic, the GOP uses this "life is sacred" argument until it comes to the death penalty, and THEN they make the argument that they're allowed to "play God" when it comes to convicted murders.
A convicted murderer is on equal footing as an innocent unborn baby?!?!?!? How can an infant baby be considered to be as evil as a murderer or child rapist and alike?!?!?
Your reasoning is outrageous and idiotic.
To put a murderer to death is a prolife action. We are protecting the innocnet people who have been harmed and hurt by evil behavior, thus saving more lives.
just in case you didn't know the definition for murder,
webster says....."the unlawful killing of a human being with malice and/or forethought, to slaughter or to kill inhumanly or barbarously, slay, assassinate"
(maybe we can insert abortion provider in here as well)
Sally,
Doesn't your bible tell you that you should judge not, lest ye be judged? Who are you to decide who is on equal footing with whom?
Your argument "To put a murderer to death is a prolife action." makes me think of those folks who kill doctors....
And for the record, if you want to get into Webster's, you can look up "person" (which is by the way, the term used in the Constitution describing those to whom Constitutional rights apply) the definition uses the word "individual" (which an unviable fetus, BY DEFINITION, most certainly not an individual) and you'll get some sense as to why the courts have ruled the way they have on abortion.
In the case of Schiavo, the court upheld that there were people in her life that were impowered, by FL law to make decions pertaining to her life--namely, her husband. I find it interesting that the party that is so big on families and so adverse to government wanted the government to interfere on a decision that should be left to the family.
So much for the party of small government.
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