Thursday, March 31, 2005

In Heaven there are still waters available from which all may drink freely. And now, after 13 days without so much as a drop of water, Terri Schiavo can finally enjoy a drink of water again.

There are those who say that Republican efforts to stop Terri's miserable death have hurt their party. They forget that sound policy is sound politics.

And they must not have seen the pictures of the children being arrested outside Terri's hospice room. Children arrested for simply trying to bring a thirsty woman a glass of water. Children, walking with slow determination carefully clutching a paper cup or a glass so as not to waste a drop of precious water. Children simply trying to obey the golden rule, "do as you would be done by." Children who would make any parent proud.

These children want to grow up in an America where a helpless woman is not starved to death at judicial command for the crime of becoming inconvenient.

Those children are Terri Schiavo's legacy. May we prove worthy of them.