Schiavo's Legacy: The Value of Life in a Nation That Cheapens It
By Alan Sears
November 28, 2011 (Townhall.com) - Terri Schiavo would have been 48
this December 3 … not a major mile-marker among we, the living, but a cause for reflection for those who loved her, and for all those who fought so valiantly to save her, in those terrible years and months and days before she was starved to death, by court order, in
March, 2005.
A cause for reflection because, as so many observed and warned us at the time, her death—court mandated, despite the express wishes of her parents and siblings and the best efforts of the President and Congress of the United States—marked a crucial
turning point in our nation’s cultural attitude toward life.
Perhaps no judicial action since
Roe v. Wade has done more to convince ordinary Americans that individual lives are expendable to those pushing for an increasingly callous medical establishment.
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