We can have different opinions on who is more valuable...a healthy baby looking forward to a joyful and productive full life of 85 years, or a woman with non-functioning cognitive brain living in a vegetative state for a very long time.
I respect your opinion, and I hope you respect mine.
“a woman with non-functioning cognitive brain living in a vegetative state for a very long time. I respect your opinion, and I hope you respect mine.”
I respect your right to have an opinion.
However, as Senator Patrick Moynahan famously said, a person may be entitled to his own opinion, but he is not entitled to his own facts.
Mrs. Schiavo was not in a vegetative state; her brain was functioning.