I feel bad for these people, because most of them are probably decent people who really care about Terry Schiavo, and I don’t to demonize them because they care deeply about human life. This, however, is just too stupid to not comment on:
The morning after Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube was removed, lawyers for her parents sought new avenues to keep her alive and protesters faced arrest for trying to deliver bread and water to the door of the hospice where Ms. Schiavo, a critically brain-damaged woman who a judge has ruled would not want life-prolonging measures, lay in bed.
Terry Schiavo is a vegetable.
You could stack her room from floor to ceiling with crates of Evian and loaves of Earth Grains, and it will do her no good. Since this has become all about the Bible and not at all about the interests of Mr. and Mrs. Schiavo or medical science, you could even stack five loaves and two fishes and it won’t help. She can not swallow, let alone chew. She can not think. She can not experience emotions. She can not love, hate, feel or express pain, sorrow, interest, happiness. None of it. And she never will again.
But most of all, she can not drink or eat. Again, the usual suspects are behind this:
About 30 people prayed and waved signs outside the Woodside Hospice on Saturday morning, and the Rev. Patrick Mahoney, director of the Christian Defense Coalition, said that some would try to peacefully walk past the dozen or so police officers blocking the hospice driveway…
Mr. Mahoney and Randall Terry, the founder of the antiabortion group Operation Rescue, said they would continue lobbying Congress to pass a bill that would require a federal court hearing in cases like Ms. Schiavo’s to evaluate whether the state had followed all requirements for judicial due process. They also said they still hoped the Florida Legislature would pass a law requiring the tube’s reinsertion or forcing the replacement of Mr. Schiavo as his wife’s guardian.
There are millions billions of people across the Earth who could stand to benefit from clean water and food. Focus on them, and leave this family alone.