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: • s-' si C -■ V church state from the Editor Terri Schindler-Schiavo: A Slippery Slope of Death Friday, March 18 marked the third time that 41-year-old Terri Schindler-Schiavo’s feeding tube has been removed, causing her to slowly die of dehydration and star vation, what medical experts agree is perhaps the most painful, tortu ous, and agonizing way to die. Whether you are for or against this action, you may be misin formed about the facts surround ing Terri’s condition and situation. The media has reported her as “brain dead” and a “vegetable”, claiming that she is being kept alive by life support. None of these things are true. The facts are Terri is NOT any of the following: being kept alive against her will, brain-dead, in a coma, in a persistent vegeta tive state (PVS), or dying. She also is NOT being kept alive by extraordinary means or life sup port. Before Friday, she received her food and water through a gastro feeding tube, like thousands of disabled people. Terri breathes on her ovm and all her vital organs are working fine. Th« M eCotWga Sttfdant Volea . WHEfgTONE y Montreal College Box 839 Montreat, NC 28757 828.669.8012 Ext. 3675 whetstone@montreat.edu Editor in Chief Asst. Managing Editor Graphic Design/ layout Features/Column Editor Business Manager Asst. Business Manager Staff Writers Photographers Web Kortney Blythe April Heyward Brittany Anderson April Heyward Travis Shelburne Luke Snyder Tyler Greene Cassie Pavone Grant Metcalf Eunice Stackhouse June Robinson Steve Carter Kent Douglas April Heyward Dan Windmiller The Whetstone is published monthly while school is in session. The views expressed in this publication are not necessarily the views of Montreat College or its staff. All submis sions become property of The Whetstone. Funding for this paper is provided by our advertisers, Student Activities Budget, and the Office of Alumni Affairs. Visit our Web site at www.montreat.edu/whetstone. Please direct any questions or comments to the editor at \^hetstone@montreat.edu. ^ Page 2, Mar. 23,2005 The Whetstone Visit terrisfight.org and you can view videos of her responding to her family, smiling, trying to speak, feeling pain. In addition, with therapy she could be in much better physical condition and achieve significant recovery, even learning to swallow food on her own. Board-certified neurologist. Dr. Jacob Green, said after he examined Terri, “She is not in a vegetative state.” When asked if it would be ethical to remove her feeding tube, he replied, “I’d call it murder.” Four board-certified neurologists, two board-certified internists, 2 speech pathologists, a neuro-psychologist and numerous other doctors all say Terri is not PVS. (www.terrisfight.oig) Just because Terri’s case seems to be an isolated one doesn’t mean that we should ignore it and think it will all go away. This one situ ation will open the floodgates to a culture of death. Just as the mass murders by Hitler and the Nazis started with “humane” euthanasia of the terminally ill and handi capped and ended with millions slaughtered, the same has already begun to happen in America. It started with abortion; it is moving to euthanasia of the elderly and handicapped; and it will snow ball to include the systematic murder of all those who we deem a burden, not worthy of our pre cious resources, the helpless. Those we as Christians are called to care for. Proverbs 24:11 says: “Rescue those being led away to death; hold back those staggering towards slaughter.” Isaiah 1:17 reads, “Leam to do right! Seek justice, encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow.” Not even animals and criminals die as inhumane a death as Terri is at this very moment. We must’ teach future generations to value life at all stages, fi’om fertilization until natural death. All life is pre cious and deserves protection not elimination. 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