Andrew C. McCarthy: Torturing Terri Schiavo

Andrew C. McCarthy, on the March 17, 2005, National Review Online, points out that Terri Schiavo would be better off if she were a terrorist, even if the country followed his lead and advocated limited use of some types of torture under certain circumstances.

...What is the law doing for Terri Schiavo?

What kind of law is it, what kind of society is it, that says the lives of Khalfan Khamis Mohammed and Mohammed Daoud al-`Owhali’s have value — over which we must anguish and for the sustenance of which we must expend tens of thousands annually — but Terri Schiavo’s is readily dispensable? By court-ordered torture over the wrenching pleas of parents ready and willing to care for her?

What kind of society goes into a lather over the imposition of bright lights and stress positions for barbarians who might have information that will save lives, but yawns while a defenseless woman who hasn’t hurt anyone is willfully starved and dehydrated? By a court — the bulwark purportedly protecting our right to life?...

Please read the article. Mr. McCarthy comes at this from a different perspective than I can, and I think it's important to let him make his own case.