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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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Title Annotation:The Week; conservative's beliefs about Terri Schiavo case
Publication:National Review
Article Type:Brief article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Apr 25, 2005
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