His jailers chose to cut off his water supply for a week and he died, exactly like Terri Schiavo, of agonizing thirst\u2013except that he was not brain-damaged and felt every second of it.<\/a><\/p>\nDo you hear that gigantic prolife outcry on FOX, Talk radio, Limbaugh, Liesite News, National Review, and all those Catholic blogs that were in such an uproar over Terri Schiavo?<\/p>\n
Yeah. Me neither.<\/p>\n
If you grasp that exactly the same thing is at issue in the murder of this man as was at issue with Terri Schiavo, you understand a consistent life ethic. If you object to what was done to Terri Schiavo, but don\u2019t care about this man or feel even the slightest compulsion to make excuses for it in order to defend your Culture War Folk Hero, then you are part of the problem.<\/p>\n
This too is a prolife issue.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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