Does that inalienable right to life mean a person has to endure whatever someone such as yourself decides to call a "life"? The court decided Terri's verbal living will was valid; for whatever reason, some people flatly refuse to acknowledge that simple fact.
If anything about this case is tired, it's all that nonsense about "murder."
If you're really brave, maybe you'll give us your thoughts on the passage I posted from the gospel of Matthew, chapter 25.
It's all very true. It's also irrelevant. When a person is found refusing food and water, is it our duty to force-feed her (and her duty to eat)?
Or are you as illogical and fact-challenged as Nathan?
My, how very gracious of you. As long as you're on a roll, go ahead and quote some more Bible passages for us.
Very crafty of you. Trying to make out as if it is ME who is sitting in judgment of her 'quality of life', when it fact it is you and those like you who are doing exactly that.
You could have been a valuable member of Clinton's spin team with rhetorical shenanagins like that, newgeezer.
The court decided Terri's verbal living will was valid;
So, in your world, along with George Greer's world, hearsay 'evidence' of offhand comments of the sort made by many young people now constitutes a 'verbal living will'.
Such a ruling threatens the lives and liberties of tens of millions of Americans, since it is normal for young healthy individuals to make such comments, when they are seemingly not now even anywhere close to finding themselves in circumstances such as Terri found herself in.
...for whatever reason, some people flatly refuse to acknowledge that simple fact.
One of the dirty little secrets of the 'living will' crusaders is that folks who have written such documents when healthy almost invariably quickly attempt to change the most life-threatening provisions of those documents after becoming disabled; when it is in their power.
You see, they really didn't mean it, because their statements prior were totally based in gross ignorance.
Once they are disabled, they realize that even at a reduced 'quality of life', to borrow your phrase, that life is precious and worth living.
If anything about this case is tired, it's all that nonsense about "murder."
If you lock your dog in a closet and give it no water til it dies, you have irrefutably murdered it.
But a disabled person is less than a dog in this 'brave new world' you folks are creating for us all.
It's all very true. It's also irrelevant.
I should have known you would shrug off the completely relevant and straightforward words of Matthew 25. After all, if you can't read Article One, Section Two of the Florida constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution with understanding, why should you handle the scripture with any more intellectual honesty?
When a person is found refusing food and water, is it our duty to force-feed her (and her duty to eat)?
Another gross misrepresentation of the facts in this case.
My, how very gracious of you.
I feel no compulsion to remain gracious to those who are empowering the death cult with their rhetorical and political skills and energies.
As long as you're on a roll, go ahead and quote some more Bible passages for us.
If you insist.
"Woe to you lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge." -Jesus Christ