Meet the invisible woman, Eleanor Smith.
* Meet the invisible woman, Eleanor Smith. Smith, still
wheelchair-bound at 65 from a childhood bout of polio, sat in vigil
outside Terri Schiavo's hospice. "This agnostic liberal says
'Feed Terri.'" Or meet the invisible man, Nat Hentoff,
atheist left-winger, who said that Schiavo was being "tortured to
death by judges." Or the disability groups that protested
Schiavo's sentence-without-a-crime. Or the sometime presidential
candidates, Ralph Nader and Jesse Jackson. Yes, they did get ink and
airtime, here and there. But the primary narrative of the mainstream
media was: Right-wing Christians seek to impose their views on Michael
Schiavo, and on you, Mr. and Mrs. America. Plenty of conservative
Christians (and Jews, and agnostics) spoke up for Terri Schiavo. But so
did some non-conservatives. An obdurate husband and a fraternity of
judges are not what all the Left wishes to stand for. "At this
point," said Eleanor Smith, "I would rather have a right-wing
Christian decide my fate than an ACLU member."
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