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Congress has special session, passes law over a weekend, president gets up to sign it, judge thumbs his nose and says, "I won't hear it until 3" and then "I won't rule on it yet"....

Not enough news? A woman with fewer rights than that scum Couhey who admitted to killing Jessica Lunsford, is not represented by counsel, her husband has many reasons to want her dead, her family (mother, father , sister, brother) pleading with the world to intervene...

Shakespeare couldn't have written this. And you're bored? Want to get back to talking about taxes?

One thing I've learned in the past week on FR--there's more to being a conservative than taxes.

I said last week (and was ridiculed for the statement though I explained the hyperbole) that if we allow this judge's action to transpire, the soul of America comes under the same dark cloud as other "evil empires."

It was hyperbolic. But the point is that this is in fact the camel's nose under the tent. If we allow the state to define a 'valuable' life (eventually meaning productive), and then condone state-sanctioned (assisted) termination of life, we join the Nazis and Soviets in government-sanctioned euthanasia. Once we allow that, life is neither sacred nor safe.

ALL other rights and liberties and all other issues regarding the individual vs. the state are IRRELEVANT if we do not first cherish and protect life.

This is the reason the Right to Life movement chose that as their name. If people do not first have the right to live, then all other rights (such as "choice") are irrelevant.

Though we have not arrived at state-sanctioned abortion, extremists on the left have already mentioned as a means of population control.

If they are successful and if we allow state-sanctioned termination, we have become in toto the property of the state. When the elderly become a drain on the state, they can then legally be terminated. And that type of policy can easily be expanded to include those who are not productive or whose opinions interfere with productivity. And before anyone flames me for being over-the-top (that can't happen here), the beauty of American liberty is that in a government of self-rule by the people, we can make policy based upon logical projections. This is why we are so successful and free, unlike collectivist-run States, where they can only react moment by moment to changes. This being the case, it is far safer for liberty to err on the side of protecting and valuing all life.