After all, we've trashed federalism...why not sovereignty?
And you, too, can say, "I was there when Conservatism died..."
Clinton put us on the road to that when he signed Executive Order 13107.
We've been revising our standards to match international law ever since.
Most folks haven't even noticed.
You know, fools who don't even know what federalism is and then proceed to say we've trashed it really annoy me.
Article III of the U.S. Constitution gives congress the power to assign jurisdiction. What Congress did regarding Schiavo is federalism at work. You, apparently, want to go back to the days of the Articles of Confederation, where individual states were sovereign as opposed to being under a FEDERAL authority.
Well said. Please don't misunderstand me, my heart aches for this family. However, this is a medical matter, and I am resentful of the attempt to turn this into a Constitutional crisis.
The family should remove her from the facility forthwith. Once home, they are free to engage the services of such medical and nursing professionals as they wish who will render any assistance required. They should have instructed their attorney to bring some sort of proceeding to sever the matrimonial bonds if need be, in order to facilitate the transfer to home hospice care.
There are so many things dreadfully wrong with this case, legally, medically and morally. It's very sad.
newsflash the other nations of the world have a presumption of pulling the plug. Essentially a duty to die in order not to be a burden to their socialized medicine systems.
Now the question becomes whether insurance companies can mandate pulling the plug on people as an ecconomic requirment. If you become helpless and unable to defend yourself can blue cross require you to starve to death? If you are an inconvenience to your husband or wife the answer is yes.