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...case of Terri Schiavo has been framed by the media as the battle between the “right to die?? and pro-life groups, with the latter often referred to as “right-wing Christians.” Little attention has been paid to the more than twenty major disability rights organizations firmly supporting Schiavo’s right to nutrition and hydration. Terri Schindler-Schiavo, a severely disabled woman, is being starved and dehydrated to death in the name of supposed “dignity.” Polls show that most Americans believe...
...name from the scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail in which a plague victim not dying fast enough is hit over the head and carted away after repeatedly insisting he is not dead yet.) Not Dead Yet exposes important biases in the “right to die?? movement, including the fact that as early as 1988, Jack Kevorkian advertised his intention of performing medical experimentation (“hitherto conducted on rats”) on living children with spina bifida, at the same time harvesting their organs for reuse...
...Hemlock Society suggested that judicial review be used regularly “when it is necessary to hasten the death of an individual whether it be a demented parent, a suffering, severely disabled spouse or a child.” This illustrates that the “right to die?? movement favors the imposition of death sentences on disabled people by means of the judicial branch...
...Sean “P. Diddy” Combs, the aforementioned spiritual leader of the dubiously influential “Vote or Die?? campaign, was featured numerous times on the very same national news our boy Jim Bunning claims not to watch. Diddy has been rumored to want to buy at least a part of the New York Knicks organization, and is apparently a pretty huge sports fan. As of late, he has even been absurdly questioned about his own future political aspirations...
...hard not to: If a Republican president can’t win a war and preside over a booming economy, how could anyone want to re-elect him? With all the impassioned campaigning of “Rock the Vote,” “Vote or Die?? and the efforts of 527 groups like Moveon.org, there would be something futile about protest and political action after a Bush win. After all, liberal activists were born to win this election. An opponent and circumstances like these really should not require Clintonian charisma to gain the support...