Lord, I'm glad my relatives have more sense than Terri Schiavo's.
Lord, I wish Republicans in Congress had something better to do than get mixed up in all this. (On the other hand this, plus the steroids mess which they also shouldn't be involved in, keeps them from doing truly stupider stuff.)
For the Republicans it's a freebie. They get to pose on other people's suffering in a way which endears them even more to the loony religious right, and if and when the federal courts walk away from this one, they can say, "hey, it's those nutty courts again! But we did our best ... ".
One wonders what the proponents of this power play hopes to gain from all this in the specific case at hand. It's unlikely the courts are going to hold that pulling the plug is some constitutional violation. Dragging it out through the courts isn't like to make Terri's hubby drop it and go do something else. At the end of it all, we're just going to right back here anyway.
What amazes me about the supposed "right to life" here is that whatever life the poor lady has right now is artificially induced. Had she fell into her current state a hundred years ago this never would have been an issue because she'd have died years ago. If Nature takes its course, then it will clearly decide that the system She has set up, where the brain has to be around to tell the body what to do for life to continue, is a good one, and all of Terri dies. The "life" being preserved isn't a natural one. It's organs being kept functioning by the chance of technology. Is this truly what the "right to life" crowd is working for? Bleah ...
Another issue which comes to mind is the role of the nuclear family. Shouldn't a husband or wife make the call, under both our laws and the laws of any higher power? Heck, didn't Jesus hisownself say "For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?" So isn't this decision to be made by the 'flesh' itself, the husband or wife forced to make such a hard choice? Where's "family values" here?
So I'm again glad that my family wouldn't do this to me. My wife would argue to pull the plug and love my memory and the rest of my family isn't silly enough to intervene. I should thank the Lord for that.
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What I want to know is what happened to the Cons' & Repubs' principle of "limited government"?
From no nation building to this tragic Schiavo case they can't seem to get enough government now.
Or is it just a matter of "power corrupts"?
Frank,
The social conservative cause has never been about limited government. It's about cheaper government, not giving money to supposed deadbeats (but Halliburton skimming doesn't seem to bother them.
What government's left should be willing and able to run people's personal lives, directing what they read, what news they hear and how they diddle their loves ones. As Justice William O. Douglas generally held, true limited government stops at your front door, and needs a mighty compelling reason to come in, regardless of what else its doing in the public arena.
The Schiavo case exposes the true hypocrisy. They're all for limited government when someone else is running it. When it's their finger on the trigger, then it ain't so bad.
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