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October 23, 2003
I now pronounce you husband, wife, parents, and the state of florida
Much of this is incoherent. Bear with me.
What's great about the Terri Schiavo case is that it shines a bright (blinding, glaring, billion watt) light on the incoherence of conservative family politics. Combine right to life rhetoric with a 39 yearold vegetative married woman, her husband (wants to let her die), her parents (want to keep her alive), the sanctity of marriage and so-called family values and you've got a big fucking mess for the conservatives. Why? Think about it:
1. Marriage between a man and a woman is sacred and should be respected.
2. Life (defined so broadly as to reach a point of absurdity; so broadly that they can't even define it without relying on platitudes) is sacred and should be respected.
3. Traditional family is sacred and should be respected.
Ah yes, the Marriage-Life-Family triumvirate. So Mr. Schiavo goes and gets an order allowing his wife's feeding tube to be removed against her parents wishes. And then the Florida Legislature, in a bizarre move that reminds me of something that would happen in, say, college student government, turns around and passes a law allowing the governor to stay the court order, and the feeding tube is replaced. [The wording of the law is excellent, btw. It tries to be general, because apparently the Legislature has the lightest of grasps on the notion that individual-specific laws generally violate equal protection, but its version of "general" pretty much rules out everyone but Terri Schiavo. A must-read.]
KABOOM! Obviously, this is unconstitutional and Mr. Schiavo's lawyers are going to have a field day with it. But that's not our concern. The real problem is the convergence of all these conservative values and the Republicans' reaction. So, what do we do when a grown woman's husband wants to take out her feeding tube? We go around him, by any means necessary, and keep her alive. Because apparently keeping a vegetative woman alive against her husband's wishes (and, according to him, against her own wishes) is more important than respecting their marriage. Apparently life trumps marriage. Unless it were the other way around--say, her parents wanted to remove the feeding tube and her husband wanted to keep it in--then we'd hear both the right to life rhetoric AND the sanctity of marriage rhetoric. Blah.
So what do you say, guys? The Pro-choice movement babbles on and on about "a women's right to choose." What about a husband's right to choose? Since when do we let Gov. Bush and the Florida legislature impose themselves on normal, decent marriage between man and woman?
Posted by me at October 23, 2003 10:53 AM
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at least its not as dumb as people who don't eat cooked foods. to paraphrase "what if you were to stick your arm in boiling water for half a hour"
Posted by: Anonymous at October 25, 2003 11:22 AM
Dear C2,
Comparing the raw foods freaks that used to live below me with mainstream liberals (haha. that was funny.) is like comparing your to pat robertson.
god those people were idiots. you know why i've never stuck my arm in boiling water? cuz i don't want to EAT MY ARM.
Posted by: me at October 25, 2003 11:29 AM
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