Okay, DevSix, first off, thank you for copying PKM's words. I lose track of all these threads. ;)
"either we are a Nation of Laws and we work to change bad laws and defeat Judges like Greer, or we become a Nation where the President or Governor can break the law when we think it is okay and favors our side but is bad if they break the law the other way."
I know you and I have agreed on this yesterday, PKM, but I just want to say it again publicly.
I am sad for Terri. I do support Life. But we cannot descend into a dictatorship, as much as we all want to help Terri.
You know, here is an aside. Someone close to me (I won't say it b/c it is a public board) had an abortion. This was, oh gosh, almost 14 years ago. 12 to be exact. Wait, 11. It was '94 (OMG, does time fly).
Or maybe it was '93. Or '92. Whatever. It was when she and I were both young twenty-somethings. :) Although in the '90s I was a 30 something.
Okay everyone please forgive my math. I'm working from memory here. ;)
So this person, I knew, had always wanted a baby.
So she called me up one day and said (happily') "I'm pregnant!"
We rejoiced together but she and her boyfriend weren't married.
He is a very science-oriented person and wanted to "dispose" of the inconvenience.
Suffice it to say that he began to work on her.
I called places, I prayed, I tried to talk to her, but in the end, I could do nothing.
The sad thing is that shortly after that, they got married.
Then they tried to have a baby. And she had trouble conceiving and had a miscarriage, which she felt was retribution, and to this day feels sad about her lost baby.
I don't know why I'm sharing this story except to say that, sometimes, we do what we can. We pray, we call, we work within the law but even despite that sometimes the worst happens.
That is so true. There is only so much you can do and then you put it all in God's hands. As a pastor of a church in a small town in Ohio that I grew up in used to tell us -- always remember when you pray it is "Thy" not "My" will be done.
What has happened is a travesty and we need to work to make sure this practice of starving anyone to death is ended. We need to keep working to get that barbaric treatment of a human being banned in every state. Then this cannot happen again.