And while we're on the subject, let's not forget the following euphemistic expressions:
Food and water do not represent extraordinary medical care.
Denying a person water is not "letting them go." It is dehydrating them to death. Giving a person food and water, even through artificial means, is not simply "postponing the dying process." Food and water are basic human care!!!
The media so distorted and twisted the truth about what happened to Terry Schiavo that one of my daughter's college professors actually thought Terry had been on a respirator. My daughter said, "Respirator! Who said anything about a respirator? A feeding tube is not a respirator!"
We have to keep speaking the truth.
2 comments:
Rosemary (and everyone else), doesn't it seem to you that it's only the minority on the extremes who are involved in this fight? Either it is people who feel passionately about Truth OR it's those who are eager to re-write "truth."
I know lots of people who care about Truth. But it seems that so many more people believe, IN THEORY, that abortion or euthanasia is wrong, but they are willing to be swept by the tide of mainstream media sound-bytes. So they accept "Terri was on a respirator." Or "fetal stem cells might save the lives of many suffering people," ignoring the science that shows that's barking up the wrong tree. Or, "Well, what about someone who is raped? How can I tell them to carry their baby?" And on and on. The liberal media has these people eating from the palm of their hand because they are too lukewarm to do just the little bit of research that it takes to get to the Truth.
Sometimes the lukewarm make me more frustrated than the most rabid pro-abort. Because there is at least HOPE with these people, but they just don't seem to see how important they are to the cause of Truth.
Encouraging thoughts welcome. . .
Very true, Catholic wife and mother. All the more reason for us to be outspoken on the life issues. I guess the most encouraging thought is that our God has the victory. We just need to continue to be faithful. When I start to get TOO worked up about these things I remind myself that I am not the Savior.
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