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Vatican cardinal condemns ‘accomplices’
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A Vatican cardinal said Thursday that leaving Terri Schiavo with no food and water amounts to murdering her, and said that one can’t stand by inert without becoming an accomplice.
The comments by Cardinal Renato Martino reflect other remarks by Vatican prelates in the past weeks over the case of Schiavo, a woman whose feeding tube was disconnected almost two weeks ago. The comments came hours before Schiavo’s death.
”The prolonged interruption in her feeding … is shaping up as an unjust death sentence to an innocent, in one of the most inhumane and cruel forms, that of death from hunger and thirst,” Martino told Vatican Radio. Martino said that respect for human life should impose that ”what would practically and without euphemism represent murder” be avoided. He said it’s ”impossible to stand by inert without becoming an accomplice.”
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