{"id":1435,"date":"2005-03-25T20:42:17","date_gmt":"2005-03-26T04:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/03\/25\/is-it-because-terris-a-girl\/"},"modified":"2005-03-25T20:42:17","modified_gmt":"2005-03-26T04:42:17","slug":"is-it-because-terris-a-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1435","title":{"rendered":"Is It Because Terri&#039;s a Girl?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting point from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sptimes.com\/2005\/03\/18\/Tampabay\/Postcards_offend_some.shtml\"><em>The St. Petersburg Times<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Three right-to-die cases have stirred the most controversy over the last 30 years: Karen Ann Quinlan, Nancy Cruzan and Terri Schiavo.<\/p>\n<p>Is it a coincidence that all three are women who were under the age of 30 when they slipped into vegetative states?<\/p>\n<p>One bioethicist doesn&#8217;t think it is.<\/p>\n<p>Though the families of many vegetative patients &#8211; male and female &#8211; have faced life-or-death decisions over the years, the plights of injured young women are more likely to engage the public and attract right-to-life advocates, says Steven Miles, a professor for the Center for Bioethics at the University of Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People say, &#8220;She needs to be rescued, she needs to be cared for,&#8221;&#8216; Miles said in an interview with the <em>St. Petersburg Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Miles said life-support measures on men are seen as an &#8220;assault&#8221; but with women, the technology becomes &#8220;a form of nurturing and care giving.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Men also are more commonly viewed as clear-thinking adults who made wise statements about their end-of-life wishes. With women, however, any previous statements they made about end-of-life wishes are more commonly blown off as &#8220;emotional utterances&#8221; that don&#8217;t have weight, Miles said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/idontfeelsogood.blogspot.com\/2005_03_01_idontfeelsogood_archive.html#111168486372024210\">Via Ms. Jared<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting point from The St. Petersburg Times: Three right-to-die cases have stirred the most controversy over the last 30 years: Karen Ann Quinlan, Nancy Cruzan and Terri Schiavo. Is it a coincidence that all three are women who were under &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1435\">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":[54,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-criticism","category-terri-schiavo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435","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=1435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}