You know, if these people were really “pro life,” they would be out protesting this war that’s already killed so many:
The Marine, Staff Sgt. Chad Simon of Monona, suffered a severe brain injury in November when a roadside bomb hit his Humvee, injuring Simon and killing three other Marines from his Madison-based Reserve unit. Surgeons removed two-thirds of Simon’s skull. He never regained consciousness.
He died nine months later, on Aug. 4, at a HospiceCare facility in Madison, after his family, following his wishes, disconnected his feeding tube. “He did have a living will, and it was very explicit. There was nothing to question,� said the Rev. Jeff Mannel, pastor at Madison Church of Christ, and a close family friend.
Jack Schuster, the family’s attorney, said Chad’s wife, Regina, made the decision after much soul-searching and with a judge’s approval.
While the family seemed to be at peace with carrying out Chad’s wishes, others who didn’t know the Marine weren’t happy with the family’s decision.
Pro-Life Wisconsin, which calls itself “your 100% pro-life voice,� accused HospiceCare of murder.
[Via FolkBum.]
You know how, if you didn’t know squat about Christianity and just went by its self-appointed representatives on the tube, etc, you’d think it was a religion entirely based on combating science education and obsessing over other people’s sex lives?
The anti-abortion people have a similar problem: the people who speak for them obviously couldn’t care less about “life”–they just use “life” in the most abstract sense as a means to give women a hard time.
To look at the anti-abortion movement’s public face, you’d never guess there were actually some adherants who were concerned with the welfare of what, in their opinions, were children. But, used to be, to tell the difference you had to talk to them–people who are really pro-life (and not just the phrase to hide their malice) are pro-kid. Someone comes up with an idea that makes it easier to be a parent (afterschool programs, free prenatal care for the pregnant-and-broke, subsidized housing for families, public day-care, the Family Leave Act, sex ed with actual information, etc.), they’re for it. And when someone say “But it’ll hurt business! It’ll cost us in taxes!” they say “well yeah, what’s your point?”
But since Bush came to Washington, you don’t have to ask them so much about their lives to figure out if they’re pro-kid or just anti-sex. Just who they voted for.
we live in the united states of gladys kravitz.
(that was the name of the nosy neighbor in bewitched right?)
Spear, etc: Jeez, what a memory.
(Also, that was supposed to be: “(and not just using the phrase to hide their malice)”)