{"id":3363,"date":"2005-06-16T11:40:14","date_gmt":"2005-06-16T19:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/06\/16\/range-of-reactions\/"},"modified":"2005-06-16T11:40:14","modified_gmt":"2005-06-16T19:40:14","slug":"range-of-reactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/16\/range-of-reactions\/","title":{"rendered":"Range of reactions"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tThe range of reactions on the conservative side to the Schiavo autopsy is interesting. It stretches all the way from Neal Boortz’ sober reaction: <\/a><\/p>\n

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Correct me if I’m wrong .. but when the Terri Schiavo matter was consuming front pages and broadcast news, wasn’t the issue whether or not she was reacting to her parents and watching that balloon floating around her room? She should not be allowed to die, people said, because with rehab she would improve and then her family could take her to malls and birthday parties and such.<\/p>\n

Well, the autopsy results are in<\/a>. [full autopsy pdf]<\/a> There was no way that Terri Schiavo could benefit in any way from rehabilitation therapy. What’s more, she had no cognitive abilities. In this context the finding means that Terri could not engage in any conscious intellectual activity. She could not participate in or understand conversations. She could not communicate. She never did try to say “I want to live.” She had no awareness or understanding of the state she was in, or of the controversy surrounding her. She could not see, so that rules out those stories of her watching that Mickey Mouse balloon floating around her room. It’s safe to say that she was not aware of her own existence on any conscious level.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…to the rabid hate-mongering<\/a> of Michele Malkin:<\/p>\n

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Late last night, I took the time to read the 39-page autopsy report of Terri Schiavo–something which, it is clear to me, most of the callous gloaters on the other side of this debate have not bothered to do. And will never do. These are people who can only talk about the sanctity of life if it’s enclosed in ghost quotes and pronounced with a sneer.<\/p>\n

You do not need a medical examiner’s license to see that the report raises many more questions than it answers, though from the (once again) misleading media coverage, we are led to believe that the matters of Terri’s life and murder are resolved. They are not.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Conservatives and Republicans may be many things, but they’re not hive-minded creatures marching in lock-step on this and many other issues. In contrast, I suspect Liberals and Democrats are pretty much on the same page on this issue, not altogether bad since they happen to be right.<\/p>\n

I also find it interesting that those who want to denounce the autopsy (or media treatment of it, which amounts to the same thing) tend to be supporters of the scurrilous Intelligent Design movement.<\/a> I don’t think this is a coincidence.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The range of reactions on the conservative side to the Schiavo autopsy is interesting. It stretches all the way from Neal Boortz’ sober reaction: Correct me if I’m wrong .. but when the Terri Schiavo matter was consuming front pages and broadcast news, wasn’t the issue whether or not she was reacting to her parents … Continue reading “Range of reactions”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-Sf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}