Cold reasoning indeed, A-G! I agree that proponents of a "culture of life" need to be a lot more "cold" in our reasoning in order to prevail in this critical public debate. The death-proponents just laugh at our emotional outbursts, and mock our despair...and then get back to business as usual fomenting the next outrage. Against this backdrop, we cannot allow manipulable judges to have the final say about what the rules for terminating innocent life are to be. Such matters must be placed in the hands of the political branches, and decided there with a specificity that is not easily susceptible to judicial "interpretation."
IMHO, to make inroads with these politicians and courts we must put ourselves in their shoes. The current judicial procedure of dispensing death by civil proceedings is made at quite a distance from the actual act which they envision as passive, i.e. withhold food and water.
By coldly putting the politician or judge at the point of a death procedure, they become involved. If the court decision is death by lethal injection, it is not passive, it gets personal.
The ban on partial birth abortions was most effective because it put the politicians at the point of the procedure itself - to vote for it, they were effectively taking the scissor in their own hands and inserting it into the baby's skull.