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March 20, 2005Are Black Babies Morally Equivalent to White Women?Oliver Willis has a great blog posting that exposes the hypocrisy of the Tom Delays of the Religious Right Party: Where Were the Republicans? This sad event took place in TEXAS last September 25th."I talked to him, I told him that I loved him. Inside of me, my son is still alive," Wanda Hudson told reporters afterward. "This hospital [Texas Children's Hospital] was considered a miracle hospital. When it came to my son, they gave up in six months. ... They made a terrible mistake."Sun's death marks the first time a U.S. judge has allowed a hospital to discontinue an infant's life-sustaining care against a parent's wishes, according to bioethical experts. snip... Posted by Jock Gill at March 20, 2005 9:19 AM | TrackBackComments
It has been suggested to me that the real story is as follows: Schiavo is a distraction created by DeLay and Frist in order to take attention away from DeLay's troubles and to enhance Frist's presidential campaign with the right wing base. That's all. The rest is a distraction, including this one, which no one should seek to politicize. The question then is this: Should this story be politicized? Or is there a better example to use to make the point of differentials in treatments. The second order question is what is a scenario that helps unravel the politics of the Relgious Right Movement? Posted by: Jock Gill at March 20, 2005 12:36 PMI see the contradictions and opportunism of the right. But what are the driving philosophies of the progressives? Where do we stand? - Is it on the civil liberties of personal control of our bodies? - Or is it the federalism question of which issues are local vs. federal? - Or how about the practical concerns of rationing and allocating scarce health care dollars; for surely ever day spent keeping someone on life support (vegetable, comatose, asleep, impaired?) is money that could fix hundreds of others' injuries or money spent curing AIDS. I want to see (a) progressive debate (because we're sure as heck not unified) and consensus on these issues, (b) slogans that frame them to progressive advantage, and (c) programs to spread those memes. Posted by: Phil Wolff at March 22, 2005 10:35 PMPost a comment
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