Thursday, March 24, 2005

One lie the repugs would like you to believe

Last night on the cable consevative talk shows I repeatedly heard pundit after pundit declare that a feeding tube was not life support. Their claim that a feeding tube and a breathing tube were not equivalent. They kept saying that they were different because you could not survive without a breathing tube implying I guess that you COULD survive without a feeding tube.

I will grant that it takes longer to die but the differences end there. Put a bowl of soup in front of Terry and she will not eat. Put the soup in her mouth and she will not swallow. She is incapable of knowing that there IS food in her mouth because she is DEAD. Her body lives only because of life support measures such as the feeding tube. She is not being EXECUTED as they like to proclaim. She is not being MURDERED either. She is being allowed to die with dignity. If you can call dying in this media circus dying with dignity.

If they truly believe that the feeding tube is not life support then why are they so upset that it has been removed? If Terry can live without it, then the argument becomes moot if she can't then it's life support pure and simple.

These people should be ashamed but of course they are not. They lack that ability.

IA

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