It was exactly one year ago today that [tag]Terri Schiavo[/tag] died, and for reasons that still don’t make any sense, some high-profile conservatives want everyone to know that they were right all along.
Focus on the Family Action Chairman Dr. [tag]James Dobson[/tag] said the media — even one year later — is still trying to cover up what really happened to her.
“The truth of the matter is, Terri Schiavo was starved and dehydrated to death,” Dobson said. “What a horrible way to die! (She was killed) despite the fact that her mom and dad were right there, and would have taken her and cared for her lovingly for the rest of her life — however long she may have lived.
Schiavo collapsed in 1990 and was diagnosed — some say misdiagnosed — as being in a persistent vegetative state after her brain was starved of oxygen.
“Maybe she wouldn’t have recovered; I suspect that she wouldn’t,” Dobson said. “But she had the right to life like all of us do, and we regret her death and remember it sadly.”
And while Dobson was explaining the media and medical conspiracy, some of Terri Schiavo’s family held an event on Capitol Hill yesterday to announce the creation of an anti-euthanasia foundation in Schiavo’s name. Her mother said it is “incumbent upon us to save the lives of others from this culture of euthanasia and choosing death instead of life.”
What’s more, Sen. [tag]Sam Brownback[/tag] (R-Kan.) participated in the press conference to praise last year’s intervention on Schiavo’s behalf, calling the effort “galvanizing events for the United States and for the world.” Brownback repeated the same talking points from the original debate, adding, “We have to be a country that stands for life at all its stages from conception to natural death. And her death was not a natural death.”
This tragic situation was a turned into an ugly political spectacle by far-right conservatives a year ago. Their efforts have not improved with age.