04/30/2004: "Terri Schiavo is being killed again"

Somehow I missed the headline (or maybe there wasn't one) that a judge yet again let loose Terri Schiavo's husband on her and he (of course) immediately pulled the feeding tube out. Here is an opinion article on the subject.

Sometimes I have a hard time with the Schiavo case because it also distresses me to think about all the laws that exist and are being created that continue to eliminate the unity of marriage. The classic case is when I call up the phone company and they tell me I can't make a change to the phone line in our house because my wife was the one who set it up originally. "It's state law!" they tell me. We can't even act as one entity to the phone company, much less to a more important governmental agency. So when I hear about people wanting to change the laws to make it more difficult for a spouse to make decisions about the medical care of their spouse, a jerk happens in the back of my head that warns me that we are continuing down a very bad road with marriage.

On the other hand, I completely agree with the Pope that food and water are not live support mechanisms and that we MUST respect the dignity of human life by continuing to give them food and water as long as they will digest it.

Anyone else have some advice to help break my quagmire (or how to spell it at least)?