I have a serious question. It's not designed to inflame but rather to show how serious what is going on in Florida is, and how it may affect those who are in the condition such as this young woman was in.
Either Felos or one of his cronies spoke this past week his belief people in the PVS stage of existence are not covered/entitled to the same rights as others in under the Constitution.
If, as things are going, more doctors, and politicians and Americans in general accept thinking like his - because, after all, the people in PVS aren't really there...
1. Would this young woman's rapist even have been charged?
2. Could the hospital just have killed her baby, without her family even being allowed to take the child home to love and raise?
Before people scoff, remember:
At the time of the Roe vs Wade, no one (except those who saw long term ramifications) ever believed that a baby would ever be killed. Now you have a bioethics 'professor' at Harvard (I believe it's Harvard - those who know for sure please update) who believes moms and dads should be allowed to decide if their babies should rejected (killed) for up to a period of 30 days, without being charged with a crime.
He was not talking being given up for adoption.
He was talking people having the legal right to kill a baby. It (the baby) could be classified a non-person for that length of time; therefore no crime would have been committed.
The only thing protecting these innocents aside from "We, the people," on a piece of paper is... WE, THE PEOPLE.
This is what bothers me when someone says, "I'm looking for every legal way..."
Last question for this missive:
3. What happens when Legal is not moral, and what's moral is not allowed to be legal?
Answer to question#3: President Hillary Clinton will be pleased;)
the bioethics prof you're thinking of is Peter Singer, who's at Princeton
Frightening questions. No good answers.
Re #2 The hospital was compelled to notify the parents when the pregnancy was discovered. The hospital could not end the pregnancy without authorization from the girls leagl guardians. No doubt they urged the parents to authorize abortion as it was considered a high-risk preganancy due to her condition, but as Catholics, they refused. Even if PVS patients rights are eroded as you suggest, the guardians still have rights and decision authority.
You have the Pharisees telling Christ that he can't heal people on the Sabbath....
My son is 6 months old. I about laughed at a woman in line yesrerday who said, "Ohhh! He looks like a little person." I answered, "He's thinking, 'I am a little person.'" She backpedaled a little with, "I mean look at that little button nose and that mouth. " I assume she meant he looked like an older child and just worded it wrong.
Pretty interesting that being PVS you still have the right not to get raped, but not the right to stay alive.