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Clint Eastwood And Terri Schiavo
by WriteWingNut
Originally posted to BNN 3/8/2005
There is an excellent commentary piece over at Catholic Exchange on Euthanasia, Clint Eastwood's "Million Dollar Baby," and Terri Schiavo.
From the article:
Hollywood has long loved to portray euthanasia, and so have other film industries. "Indeed, in the past movies were made as explicit propaganda to promote the legalization and legitimacy of active euthanasia," Smith wrote. "The most notorious of these is the 1939 German movie I Accuse (Ich Klage An), a film that, with Goebbels's blessing, both promoted voluntary euthanasia as well as the propriety of killing disabled infants — to blockbuster success at the box office. It is striking and disturbing how similar the plotline of Million Dollar Baby is to the voluntary euthanasia story in I Accuse." The heroines in both movies ask "their primary male companions (the husband in I Accuse and surrogate father in Million Dollar Baby) to put them out of their misery," said Smith, a lawyer for the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide.
Another primary male companion is out to eliminate a woman from the world but, unfortunately, these two people are real. And the woman never asked to be eliminated. Michael Schiavo has spent years trying to kill his severely disabled wife, Terri. Her end may finally have come, and if it does, it will set a precedent that will eviscerate the rights of the disabled in this country. Since Terri lives in Florida, the precedent will be especially ominous for the large number of retirees who live there.
Read the full article here.
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