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Jan. 5th, 2006 01:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chaobellDoctors at Baylor (a very Baptist institution, keep that in mind) take a woman off life support because she can't pay. Pro-lifers don't seem to notice or care this time.
I wanted to wait a couple of days to froth about this, because I thought it might be possible that the very lynch mob that raised so much hell over doctors trying to carry out Terri Schiavo's wishes just hadn't heard about it yet.
But surely by now, there should be some ruckus. I mean, it's been what, two or three weeks? That's got to be enough time for them to get pissed off and mobilize the troops? Because surely, no true pro-life individual would allow something like this to go unprotested, right?
Well, none of them except the National Right to Life Foundation.
...and the American Family Association.
...and Concerned Women for America, who strangely has plenty of free time in which to bay for Mattel's blood over a copy/paste mishap.
...and Pat Robertson.
...and our lovely president, who raised so much hell over Terri Schiavo, and his friends in the U.S. legislature who tried to bully the courts into forcing her doctors to keep her alive.
All of whom are known to be pro-life, and very loudly and proudly so.
Doctors try to comply with the living will of a brain-dead white woman and the pro-life mob raises holy hell; the U.S. legislature and Gee Dubya and the rabid fundamentalists and the rest of the pro-life contingent scream and flail and demand her husband's and doctors' heads on pikes--and yes, some of these supposedly "pro-life" people did literally send death threats.
And now doctors cut a poor black woman who was awake and alert and who had said "please don't do this until my mother gets here" off her ventilator, against her wishes, without even giving her an extra day or two for her mother to get in from Africa, don't even bother to sedate her first, and...
...nothing.
No outrage, no protests, no angry letters to government, no death threats against the doctors who ignored the patient's wishes, no hue and cry from the very Republican and supposedly pro-life government of the state in which this was allowed to happen.
Nothing.
You'd think there'd be some pro-life outrage by now, wouldn't you? It should be all over the front pages of the sites I linked, wouldn't you think? At the very least, the National Right To Life Foundation, who's still to this day waving the corpse of Terri Schiavo around?
Even now, after this story has had ample time to percolate down to their level, they haven't said one thing about it. Not a word.
Doctors respect the wishes of a brain-dead white woman, and the pro-lifers raise holy hell. Doctors take a conscious, alert black woman off life support against her will before her mother can even arrive to hold her while she dies, and the pro-life mob doesn't give one eighth of a red fuck.
What's wrong with this picture?
If you count yourself a pro-lifer and this offends you? Too bad. Maybe you do actually believe all human life is sacred, I don't know. But judging from the reaction--or total lack thereof-- of the vast majority of the "pro-life" contingent on this, I'd have to say you're the exception rather than the rule. They've just demonstrated that the only lives that matter to them are those of the unborn and the white-and-brain-dead.
If you are one of the rare few pro-lifers who don't fit into that category and you're tired of being painted with the same brush they are, try growing some vertebrae, opening the mouth and using the brain and the vocal cords God gave you, and calling the rest of your fellows on their hypocrisy. If you can't muster up the balls to tell these motherfuckers they're making your kind look bad, don't come crying to me about it.
Oh, one more thing.
Remember that first bit? About how Baylor College and its associated facilities like the one in which this happened is a very Baptist institution? They are so rabidly Baptist that until fairly recently, dances could not be held on campus because of it. It may still be that way, I'm not sure.
Where, pray tell, do Baptists of that caliber tend to fall on the pro-life/pro-choice scale? Yeah.
So why, then, would such a rabidly Baptist and thus pro-life institution do something like this without the slightest show of remorse?
You tell me.
I wanted to wait a couple of days to froth about this, because I thought it might be possible that the very lynch mob that raised so much hell over doctors trying to carry out Terri Schiavo's wishes just hadn't heard about it yet.
But surely by now, there should be some ruckus. I mean, it's been what, two or three weeks? That's got to be enough time for them to get pissed off and mobilize the troops? Because surely, no true pro-life individual would allow something like this to go unprotested, right?
Well, none of them except the National Right to Life Foundation.
...and the American Family Association.
...and Concerned Women for America, who strangely has plenty of free time in which to bay for Mattel's blood over a copy/paste mishap.
...and Pat Robertson.
...and our lovely president, who raised so much hell over Terri Schiavo, and his friends in the U.S. legislature who tried to bully the courts into forcing her doctors to keep her alive.
All of whom are known to be pro-life, and very loudly and proudly so.
Doctors try to comply with the living will of a brain-dead white woman and the pro-life mob raises holy hell; the U.S. legislature and Gee Dubya and the rabid fundamentalists and the rest of the pro-life contingent scream and flail and demand her husband's and doctors' heads on pikes--and yes, some of these supposedly "pro-life" people did literally send death threats.
And now doctors cut a poor black woman who was awake and alert and who had said "please don't do this until my mother gets here" off her ventilator, against her wishes, without even giving her an extra day or two for her mother to get in from Africa, don't even bother to sedate her first, and...
...nothing.
No outrage, no protests, no angry letters to government, no death threats against the doctors who ignored the patient's wishes, no hue and cry from the very Republican and supposedly pro-life government of the state in which this was allowed to happen.
Nothing.
You'd think there'd be some pro-life outrage by now, wouldn't you? It should be all over the front pages of the sites I linked, wouldn't you think? At the very least, the National Right To Life Foundation, who's still to this day waving the corpse of Terri Schiavo around?
Even now, after this story has had ample time to percolate down to their level, they haven't said one thing about it. Not a word.
Doctors respect the wishes of a brain-dead white woman, and the pro-lifers raise holy hell. Doctors take a conscious, alert black woman off life support against her will before her mother can even arrive to hold her while she dies, and the pro-life mob doesn't give one eighth of a red fuck.
What's wrong with this picture?
If you count yourself a pro-lifer and this offends you? Too bad. Maybe you do actually believe all human life is sacred, I don't know. But judging from the reaction--or total lack thereof-- of the vast majority of the "pro-life" contingent on this, I'd have to say you're the exception rather than the rule. They've just demonstrated that the only lives that matter to them are those of the unborn and the white-and-brain-dead.
If you are one of the rare few pro-lifers who don't fit into that category and you're tired of being painted with the same brush they are, try growing some vertebrae, opening the mouth and using the brain and the vocal cords God gave you, and calling the rest of your fellows on their hypocrisy. If you can't muster up the balls to tell these motherfuckers they're making your kind look bad, don't come crying to me about it.
Oh, one more thing.
Remember that first bit? About how Baylor College and its associated facilities like the one in which this happened is a very Baptist institution? They are so rabidly Baptist that until fairly recently, dances could not be held on campus because of it. It may still be that way, I'm not sure.
Where, pray tell, do Baptists of that caliber tend to fall on the pro-life/pro-choice scale? Yeah.
So why, then, would such a rabidly Baptist and thus pro-life institution do something like this without the slightest show of remorse?
You tell me.
