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/24-7PressRelease.com/ - The case of Terri
Schiavo is, foremost, a case of abuse.
This fact is what everyone seems to neglect.
Before getting into the right to live or die
argument, let's first deal with the fact of
years of ongoing abuse toward Terri.
[For] 15 years Michael Schiavo has
prevented Terri from getting proper rehab.
Where are the women's right groups, as Terri
lies dying in Florida?
Where are the voices that had cried for women's
rights since the 1960s?
Where are the organizations that get huge grants
to help women?
They are silent as a grave afraid to speak lest
they upset the political apple cart; and one
woman who represents millions of vulnerable
women is starving to death in the hands of an
abusive husband.
Understand the precedent and the message that
this case will set for the generations of
abusive husbands.
An abusive man can beat his wife to a vegetative
state, use his legal pass as next to kin to
prevent the evidence from recovery, make money
on insurances and doctors -- and after the
checks are cleared suddenly remember that his
wife expressed a wish to die in a similar
situation.
Then contact pro-death attorneys who will
protect him to further their political agenda.
I lay motionless. "Oh my God, I killed her;
I have to get out of here," he yelled as he
run to the door.
I was unconscious, yet I heard every word he
said.
There were no visible bruises on my body and by
the Grace of God I woke, hours later.
I tell this as a survivor of domestic violence,
author of a book of a victim's account of abuse
and advocate of women's right to recovery from
abuse.
I could've been Terri.
None of us really knows what happened to Terri.
No investigation was allowed.
Why?
There is a trail of leads to an abusive
husband.
Yet, all are hushed in a wrangling of legal
papers and a pro death judge and attorney.
In the past two years alone, Terri has not been
allowed to see the light of the sun nor has she
been allowed to have her window open for fresh
air. No MRI, no modern medical care, no cameras.
Regardless what this case is about, it is
primarily a case of an abuse against an impaired
woman.
As a victim of domestic abuse, I see abuse, I
smell abuse.
Something is very wrong.
When one woman can't fight for herself, we have
to fight for her.
I call all the women groups to action.
Come fight for your sister now.
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