Terri Schiavo is set to start the slow, agonizing process of starving to death tomorrow. I find it to be a process where a husband gets to murder his wife, collect the money meant for her, and live with his new girlfriend without consequence by using the state as his instrument of death. But that’s just me.  The unvarnished facts are bad enough, without my interpretation.

The struggle is often cast as an extension over the fight over abortion; personally I don’t see it that way. If Terri had left a living will, or made her intentions known that indeed she did not want to live this way, I would support her decision. But the only evidence that she didn’t want to live this way is her husband’s word. Forgive me if I find it hard to rely on given the large sum of money and the other woman involved.