Rae comments on Schiavo Case for the LA Times, Fox News
The following is an excerpt from the LA Times article that includes Scott Rae’s response to the Terry Schiavo case. The full article can be found here.
But evangelical Scott Rae, a professor of Christian ethics at Biola University in La Mirada, argued that withdrawing the feeding tube would be appropriate if it could be determined that it coincided with Schiavo's wishes.
He said he agreed with a 1990 U.S. Supreme Court decision that feeding tubes "constituted medical treatment analogous to ventilation, and removing them was no more starving someone than removing ventilation was suffocating someone."
He said he would not want to be sustained as Schiavo had been. "As a Christian, I don't want anybody to delay my homecoming" in heaven, he said.
But Rae said he was not convinced that Schiavo would have willed this outcome, and questioned whether her husband, Michael Schiavo, was acting in her best interests. So long as her parents were willing and able to care for her, what was the harm in allowing them to do so, he asked.
"If in doubt, you always offer life," Rae said.
Rae also appeared on be on Fox News' Heartland with John Kasich on March 26 to discuss the case and events regarding Terri Schiavo.