[SolomoninSouthDakota]

I see your point. But over-reliance on that model runs a risk of creating/reinforcing a negative image of "simplistic, backward, fundamentalistic (is that a word), etc. pro-life wackos.
personally, I view Terri's case in terms of just plain proper ethics for a person about to die. No doubt it's the euthanasia movement pushing her death; I just still frame it in terms of dying with dignity. My wife has experience in hospice RN work and had to quit because of conscience. The push to death is alive and well I know. But if we keep clear on perhaps several moral principles, the battle can be won.

[jpsb]

" pro-life wackos." seems like a contradiction it terms to me. But I suppose one can take pro-life issues to extreme brain in a jar limits. And I agree common sense must enter into the eqauton at some point, but it is imperative that we establish beynd any question that life gets the benefit of doubt, any doubt.