{"id":1426,"date":"2005-03-21T11:53:20","date_gmt":"2005-03-21T19:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/03\/21\/four-good-terri-schiavo-links\/"},"modified":"2005-03-21T11:53:20","modified_gmt":"2005-03-21T19:53:20","slug":"four-good-terri-schiavo-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1426","title":{"rendered":"Four Good Terri Schiavo Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my previous post, I said that others are now writing much better posts about Terri Schiavo than I can. Here&#8217;s four examples.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hilzoy at Obsidian Wings has written the unequalable <a href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2005\/03\/terri_schiavo.html\">if-you-read-only-one-post-about-Terri-Schiavo-this-should-be-it<\/a> post. Hilzoy&#8217;s post (which is long) starts off by laying out the background, so if you&#8217;re already familiar with the case you may want to skim that section. The post also contains a discussion of the ethical issues involved which is both persuasive and impeccably well written.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s also an idea spreading around the left blogosphere that there are cases &#8211; especially in Texas &#8211; where conscious patients are being unplugged by hospitals just because the patients are broke, and it&#8217;s all because of a law that George Bush signed, and aren&#8217;t those right-wingers hypocrites? I can understand the eagerness to take that position, especially since some leading onservatives have been repulsively eager to use Terri Schiavo to paint liberals as evil death-cultists. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.markarkleiman.com\/archives\/_\/2005\/03\/schiavo_hudson_and_nikolouzos.php\">And there is some genuine hypocrisy there.<\/a> (And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mahablog.com\/2005.03.20_arch.html#1111322361262\">here<\/a>, as well.)\n<p>Nonetheless, the real issues aren&#8217;t as simple as some of my lefty allies are painting them; given finite resources, it does make sense for hospitals to be able to refuse genuinely futile measures. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leanleft.com\/archives\/2005\/03\/20\/4103\/\">Lean Left has an excellent discussion<\/a> of the more complicated reality.<\/li>\n<li>A writer at the Democracy Cell Project is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracycellproject.net\/blog\/archives\/2005\/03\/giving_voice.html\">eloquently appalled<\/a> at how Terri Schaivo&#8217;s death, which should be a private matter for her family, has been twisted into a platform for political grandstanding.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, go check out <a href=\"http:\/\/majikthise.typepad.com\/majikthise_\/2005\/03\/schiavo_swarm_.html\">Majikthise <\/a>for a list of many, many more recent (mostly lefty) posts about Terri Schiavo.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And now I promise: my next bunch of posts will NOT be about Terri Schiavo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my previous post, I said that others are now writing much better posts about Terri Schiavo than I can. Here&#8217;s four examples. Hilzoy at Obsidian Wings has written the unequalable if-you-read-only-one-post-about-Terri-Schiavo-this-should-be-it post. Hilzoy&#8217;s post (which is long) starts off &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1426\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terri-schiavo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}