Questions

Today's Washington Times raises a question about the Terri Schiavo case.  Why didn't Michael Schiavo just divorce her and move on?

Why, they ask, does this muscular, 6-foot-7 Florida prison nurse refuse to divorce his wife, Terri, even though he has been living with another woman for 10 years and fathered two children with her?

A possible answer may be,

On CNN Sunday, Bobby Schindler said his brother-in-law stood to gain about $1 million in damages from a malpractice lawsuit he filed and won in late 1992. A jury awarded more than $700,000 for Mrs. Schiavo's care, and Mr. Schiavo received an additional $300,000.

"I don't know the financial situation of Terri's trust fund" today, Mr. Schindler said. He pointed out that Mr. Schiavo promised a jury 13 years ago that the money would be used for his wife's "rehabilitation and therapy."

"The money now has been used to pay Michael's attorneys in an effort to kill her. These financial documents have been sealed by the court," Mr. Schindler said.

On the other hand there is this.

A San Diego businessman's $1 million offer to Terri Schiavo's husband if he transfers responsibility for her care to her parents so the comatose woman can be kept alive is unacceptable, his attorney said in remarks published Friday...

Herring Thursday deposited $1 million into the client trust account at Allred's law firm, according to Robert D. Rosecrans, the vice president of National Bank of California, which handled the transaction. Allred said the written offer -- which is on the table until Monday at 5 p.m. PST -- was communicated to Michael Schiavo's attorney Thursday morning.

"I believe very strongly that there are medical advances happening around the globe that very shortly could have a positive impact on Terri's condition," said Herring, who lives in the San Diego area. "I have seen miraculous recoveries occur through the use of stem cells in patients suffering a variety of conditions."

But an attorney for Michael Schiavo said the offer won't be accepted.

Attorney George Felos told Florida's St. Petersburg Times that Michael Schiavo turned down a similar $10 million offer about two weeks ago made via an attorney for an anonymous Floridian.

It's a puzzling situation.  I don't get why our progressive elite seem consistently determined to end seemingly innocent human life.  And it's a strange coincidence that those who once so strongly, and rightly, favored federal intervention as in the Civil Rights Act, now argue the sanctity of states rights in the case of Terri Schiavo. 

And another thing.  Where is the National Organization of Women?  And where  are the rest of the feminists on this issue?

Each wave of the women's movement has asked the impossible, and in so doing, galvanized huge numbers of women. Speaking the unspeakable, asking for the moon, these are what the women's movement did once upon a time. They did it because women's lives were at stake. Women's lives are still at stake. Terri Schiavo is a woman, remember? That's all that matters. If denying equal protection under the law to women with disabilities through right-to-die laws isn't "violence against women" just what is?

Who is deserving of "rights"?  Who gets to decide?

Comments

[Paulie at The Commons]

Yeah, why do the chattering class seem so HAPPY about killing things?

And, where's the "Stem Cells Could Save Her" crowd?

Oh, I know: they're the eugenicists who want Terri to be killed (for the "Greater Good.")