Why we can't forget Terri Schiavo

In this March 24, 2005, file photo, demonstrators pray for Terri Schiavo outside the Pinellas County Courthouse in Clearwater, Fla. Schiavo died after a seven-year legal fight by her husband to get her feeding tube removed. The legal fight prompted a national debate about the right to die. (AP Photo/Steve Nesius, File)
(RNS) — Schiavo’s case reminds us that our value comes not from what we can do, but from the kinds of creatures that we are.