Terri Schiavo topic of UPenn Bioethics Symposium

This is a tale of two scandals: bias and possible censureship.

The University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics plans to celebrate its 10th Anniversary with a Symposium entitled "The Legacy of Terri Schiavo: Why is it so hard to die in America?" Invited plenary speakers include the advocates for Mrs. Shiavo's intentional death by dehydration (the removal of the tube with simultaneous legal prohibition of oral fluids and nutrition): Michael Schiavo, Judge George Greer, and Dr. Ronald Cranford.
Mr. Schiavo will be the Lead Speaker in the "Personal Stories" session. There is an addition just today of Hospice representatives and a member of National Right to Life, Dave Andrusko. The only "religious prospectives" speaker as of this moment is a specialist in Buddhist and Japanese religions.


However, yesterday the panel was missing advocates for Mrs. Schiavo, "religious perspective" panel members and any sort of advocate for the rights of the disabled or dying.

Interesting incident.
A whole set of comments from the post announcing the University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics 10th Anniversary Symposium have been deleted at blog.bioethics.net.

Several of us were discussing the lack of balance on the panel. All those critical, civil and pertinent comments are now gone.

The website for the Symposium was down for a while, so I worried that the server was out. I considered the possibility that the website was being updated. But, the website is up again, and the only comments missing are those critical of the Symposium and the makeup of the panel.

Trying a "trackback" link to the site. I've never been able to get them to work, but I think this deserves another try.