A Lone Feminist Stands Up For Terri

From Newsmax:

Two-time Emmy winner and New York Times best-selling author Patricia Heaton pleaded for the life of Terri Schiavo [Fri]day as Terri’s life-sustaining feeding tube was removed. Heaton serves as honorary chair of Feminists for Life of America.

"We must not let Terri Schiavo be starved to death," said Heaton. "This deliberate and painful destruction of a woman’s life cannot be justified or tolerated. Terri deserves better."

Fifteen years ago Terri’s husband, Michael, testified in the medical malpractice suit he filed: "I believe in the vows I took with my wife: through sickness and health, for richer or poorer. I married my wife because I love her and I want to spend the rest of my life with her. I’m going to do that."

But after being awarded $800,000 for Terri’s rehabilitation and lifetime care and $640,000 for his loss, Michael had a do-not-resuscitate order placed on his wife’s chart and repeatedly denied her treatment for infections. He now lives with a woman by whom he has fathered two children.

The star of Everybody Loves Raymond says she is outraged.

"By his actions Michael Schiavo has demonstrated that he should not be the one making the ultimate life-or-death decisions for a woman who, only in legal terms, remains his wife. His belief that this was Terri’s wish counters the views of Terri’s family, who, no doubt, know Terri well. Removal of a feeding tube will result in a slow starvation that is cruel and painful."

"Feminists have always challenged the idea that married women have no rights of their own," said Heaton. "A husband should not be granted absolute control over his wife’s fate, especially a disaffected husband with dubious motives."

"Terri has parents whose unselfish desire is to simply love her, care for her and let her live. She is not in a comatose state and she is not suffering from terminal disease. Terri may no longer be perfect or complete, but she has a fundamental right to life. Her feeding tube must be re-inserted."

One might reasonably wonder why all feminists aren't outraged by the Schiavo case. After all, here is a man who has spent the past decade-plus trying to victimize his disabled, helpless wife in order to abscond with the proceeds from the aforementioned malpractice settlement. Isn't this precisely the sort of abuse that the feminist movement arose to fight and stamp out? Isn't feminism's raison d'etre the defense of women against male oppression? What could possibly be worse oppression than torture and murder?

The above graf is, of course, rhetorical. Feminism is just another branch of the same death cult that is determined to eradicate Terri Schiavo's existence. Can it be any surprise that the same "movement" that has raised fetuscide to the level of unholy sacrament would utter not so much as a peep about the brutal fate being inflicted upon this poor woman?

The very fact that a separate organization with the name "Feminists for Life" has to exist - part of whose mission is "oppos[ition to] the killing of disabled wom[e]n under a so-called "right" to die[, and] all forms of violence, including euthanasia, as they are inconsistent with the core feminist principles of justice, nonviolence and nondiscrimination" - is a blanket indictment of the remainder of that miniscule bulldyke "sisterhood" as traitors to the ostensible cause it self-righteously claims to represent.