[Pokey78]

Thanks!

Steyn ping!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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Michael Schiavo took a vow to be faithful in sickness and in health, forsaking all others till death do them part. He's forsaken his wife and been unfaithful to her: She is, de facto, his ex-wife, yet, de jure, he appears to have the right to order her execution. This is preposterous. Suppose his current common-law partner were to fall victim to a disabling accident. Would he also be able to have her terminated? Can he exercise his spousal rights polygamously? The legal deference to Mr. Schiavo's position, to his rights overriding her parents', is at odds with reality.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Mrs. Schiavo has been in her present condition for 15 years. Whoever she once was, this is who she is now -- and, after a decade and a half, there is no compelling reason to kill her. Any legal system with a decent respect for the status quo -- something too many American judges are increasingly disdainful of -- would recognize that her present life, in all its limitations, is now a well-established fact, and it is the most grotesque judicial overreaching for any court at this late stage to decide enough is enough. It would be one thing had a doctor decided to reach for the morphine and ''put her out of her misery'' after a week in her diminished state; after 15 years, for the courts to treat her like a Death Row killer who's exhausted her appeals is simply vile.

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[alwaysconservative]

Thanks for the ping, Pokey! Steyn just keeps get it right, all the time.

[American in Israel]

There seems to be a genuine dispute about her condition -- between those on her husband's side, who say she has ''no consciousness,'' and those on her parents' side, who say she is capable of basic, childlike reactions. If the latter are correct, ending her life is an act of murder. If the former are correct, what difference does it make? If she feels nothing -- if there's no there there -- she has no misery to be put out of. That being so, why not err in favor of the non-irreversible option?

Pretty bad when Media columnists are wiser than the best in the supreme court. Worst fate of a Nation is to have no Statesmen. Sadly, in the entire Government of the United States of America, we have no Statesmen wiser than a Canadian Columnist or with more nads than a liberal Floraduh Judge. God has obviously cursed us.

Perhaps killing more of our own babies yearly than Hitler killed Jews during his glorious WWII term has a hand in it? Senior citizens had better realize that Bush just solved Social Security's longevity problem, by doing nothing.

[beaversmom]

Pokey thanks for the ping. I have loved Steyn's brilliant mind but I love him more now that he has weighed in on this. Thanks so much.

[GOPJ]

Thanks for the ping.

[lainde]

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