Pros And Cons Of Terri Shiavo

Terri Schiavo was a right-to-die case involving a woman who was in an irreversible persistent vegetative state in the United States from 1990 to 2005. Schiavo family debated on her behalf to be removed from the feeding tube if it was not going to help her recover so, finally it took President George W. Bush seven years before ultimately removing Terri feeding tube. Euthanasia or better known as assisted suicide is “the act or practice of causing or permitting the death of hopelessly sick or injured individuals (such as persons or domestic animals) in a relatively painless way for reasons of mercy” and can be categories as non-voluntary, involuntary, and voluntary or passive, and active. Involuntary euthanasia is conducted without consent; voluntary …show more content…
Assistant suicide must be legalized because it is prehistoric. If you date back to when euthanasia was first used, it was during the time of King George V death. When King George received an injection of morphine and cocaine by his royal physician. Furthermore, infanticide is the killing of young children and is found as indigenous and sophisticated to cultures around the world. Infanticide is usually done by the mothers whereas infanticide of a child more than one day old is committed by the father. However, female infanticide is the reason for imbalance of sex ratio with more males than females. Compare to other countries China and India is the largest to partaken in the use of female infanticide. Infanticide is used in these countries because they feel that females would not be able to take the place of a male, but until the fourth century infanticide was neither legal nor immoral. In the United States infanticide is illegal when it comes to killing an infant or child after birth, but abortion is legal. Infanticide is no different than euthanasia because some infants are born with birth defects or a mother might choose abortion. However, mothers have the right to base their decision off if they can provide for the infant or if they want to rise a baby with birth defects. Abortion been legalized in the United States ever since the Roe VS Wade decision in 1973. According to the Emedicine health “before the 19th century, most US states had no specific abortion laws. Women could end a pregnancy prior to viability with the assistance of medical personnel”. If back, then during history these medical treatments were done illegally why not during the present year we legalize it to stop patients from causing harm or side effects to their