Along with "who else will they vote for, the democrats?"
And the hue and cry that it's a states right thing; after wage and price control, minimum wage, unelected federal judges running school districts, the EPA putting people in jail for filling in a ditch or building where there's a bug, OSHA, ADA, the list is endless.
Yet all the states rights handwringing over trying to protect one innocents "life and liberty" is suddently the destruction of states rights.
Sign me a religious whackjob bible thumping nutcase (all of which I've been called the last week and frankly, quite proud of it).
As have I sir, as have I.
I think it boils down to what each thinks is the ultimate authority. For me it is Jesus. For others it is the law, or some vague idea of situational ethics. Neither side can really understand the other, because their world view is totally different. Both can work together in some things, and will work against each other in other things.
To me, as a Christian, this is a pretty cut and dried case of Natural Law versus man's law. Terri has done nothing wrong, and is not "brain dead" (notice how that never gets brought up?). Therefore, we need to err on the side of life.
To some who don't believe in God, when they project themselves into Terri's state, they see someone trapped by a non functioning body/brain. To end that tormented (again in their view) existence is ultimately a mercy.