Well, some of the right are calling Michael Schiavo a murderer, the judges are getting death threats, and the protesters are holding up blood-dripping signs. So the answer is yes, in spades.
As for giving a shit about what they've gone through, I do. I've been through a family struggle over what to do about a dying family member, and trust me, there is nothing easy about it. The advantage that I and my family had is that the birth-family in our case didn't drag the issue into the courts, congress, press, etc., etc., when they could not convince the marriage-family that theirs was the right course. As a result, and unfortunately only several years after the death in question, the rift in the family was mended. More or less. Mind you, it wasn't until the death of yet another relative that anyone would speak to anyone else.
Meanwhile, of course, people are being removed from life-support and feeding tubes all over the country, in some cases against the wishes of their families, and no one *except* the left gives a shit about them. People are dying for lack of basic medical care, and no one except the left gives a shit about them. People are hungry and homeless in this, the richest country in the world, and no one except the left gives a shit about them. In the last two weeks, since the feeding tube was removed from Terri Schiavo, I have worked two days in a food pantry and cooked two meals for the homeless, one on twelve hours notice. I didn't see any of the "Right to Life (but not to food or shelter)" activists *there*.
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Date: 2005-04-01 12:08 am (UTC)As for giving a shit about what they've gone through, I do. I've been through a family struggle over what to do about a dying family member, and trust me, there is nothing easy about it. The advantage that I and my family had is that the birth-family in our case didn't drag the issue into the courts, congress, press, etc., etc., when they could not convince the marriage-family that theirs was the right course. As a result, and unfortunately only several years after the death in question, the rift in the family was mended. More or less. Mind you, it wasn't until the death of yet another relative that anyone would speak to anyone else.
Meanwhile, of course, people are being removed from life-support and feeding tubes all over the country, in some cases against the wishes of their families, and no one *except* the left gives a shit about them. People are dying for lack of basic medical care, and no one except the left gives a shit about them. People are hungry and homeless in this, the richest country in the world, and no one except the left gives a shit about them. In the last two weeks, since the feeding tube was removed from Terri Schiavo, I have worked two days in a food pantry and cooked two meals for the homeless, one on twelve hours notice. I didn't see any of the "Right to Life (but not to food or shelter)" activists *there*.