Nation Magazine Mocks Terri Schiavo
Last week's Nation, the left wing magazine on current events, hit a new low. The cover mocks Terri Schiavo by showing her being asked to smile to indicate yes when answering a series of questions, mostly meant to criticize her supporters, and her face not changing.
Not only is this to disparage a dead woman who was dehydrated to death because she had suffered a serious brain injury, it demonstrates that many on the Left really do consider people like Terri to be less than human, and hence, better off dead. What a disgrace.
posted by Wesley J. Smith @ 12:01 AM
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This is disgraceful. And it isn't only The Nation: I saw a comedian mocking Terri on Jay Leno and quickly changed the station. The mainstream media now is channeling people to think about "living wills" and advanced directives, while assuring them that "pulling the plug" is unquestionably noble. Too few on the left are thinking about the issues. And the New York Times is feeding the pervasive shallowness and bias. Last night an old friend told me that, even though 15 or more neurologists signed affidavits indicating that Terri should have been re-evaluated, every other neurologist believed she should die, when not every other neurologist is involved in the case.
I would like to see a mirror held up to the so-called intellectual left. A mirror that would reflect its callow analysis; that would let it see it isn't listening, that it is refusing to take a penetrating look at the Separation of Powers doctrine. And that people who motivated by faith and conscience to move the machinery of the state do not constitute a theocracy; that the notion of judicial supremacy the left is so uncritically supporting is far more dangerous. But what would it take to open such closed minds?
Wasn't it the left that kept trying to convince us all that dehydrating and starving Terri to death was dignified? Are we also to believe mocking her post-mortum is dignified?
I'd like to say this is amazing or surprising, but it's neither when you consider the source.
Faith
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