You haven't been paying attention to the forum, have you?
The law as written must be respected.
This has been the most highly litigated case in the nation's history.
Sooner or later it must end.
It sucks worse than the Elian Gonzalez case, but it it what it is.
Not a good enough reason to sanction state sponsored euthanasia potentially against someone's will.
It sucks worse than the Elian Gonzalez case, but it it what it is.
Even if the law was being interpreted correctly, the principle would be lex mala, lex nulla. A bad law is no law. Elian should not have been deported. Terri should be allowed to live in the absence of her explicit wishes on this subject.
Ivan
Honoring Terri's wishes:
I don't want to be kept alive by artifical means;
Okay
How about
If my husband ever commits adultery, I want a divorce.
Just a thought but if you honor one statement you honor them all.
Elian Gonzales' father's rights trumped Elian's right to liberty and Micheal Schiavo's rights as a husband trumps his wife's right to life. Or so the left says. IOWs men may treat their women and children as property. The Dems are doing really well on civil rights issues these days. They are moving wayyyyy back to try to recapture traditional values as their issue. Maybe Robert Byrd will be able to put his sheets back on soon.
In terms of inalienable rights I consider the right to life to be the most basic, the most fundamental, without life you can't very well exercise any other right. Yet the argument seems to be that spousal rights trump it. Spousal rights are being trumpeted as an absolute that even the other spouse's right to life must bow to. Sounds like wife as chattel to me.
Is that what you are defending? That the weaker spouse is property? I bet that doesn't bode well for you.
"The law as written must be respected. This has been the most highly litigated case in the nation's history. Sooner or later it must end."
On your profile it say - may Cuba be liberated soon...
Why don't you just let the law in Cuba stand as written and you should feel it must be respected too and not try to change the situation in Cuba?
But you believe in changing that law - don't you? And we, who are for Terri and life - believe in changing the law too.