[Aquinasfan]

What I'd like to know is how this is different from the Terri Schiavo case. In fact, the Schiavo case has laid the intellectual groundwork for infanticide. There is no difference in principle.

[pollywog]

What about the officials at the abortion clinic that did NOTHING when the girl screamed for help after she saw her baby and cried for someone to get help and call a doctor. I think THEY are wrong too.God help us. We need to value life.

[trisham]

What I'd like to know is how this is different from the Terri Schiavo case. In fact, the Schiavo case has laid the intellectual groundwork for infanticide. There is no difference in principle.

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Interesting comparison. It may be that some of the same people who were for the death of Terri Schiavo will agree with prosecuting this couple.

I believe in religious freedom, but at the expense of a child's life? From a personal perspective, I can't imagine not doing everything possible to save the life of my child. I also question the decision of the judge to disallow using religion as a defence.

[BykrBayb]

The Terri Schindler Schiavo case established the precedent that religious beliefs are irrelevent. Terri's religious liberty was stomped into the dirt. Her religious belief that euthanasia is a sin was not allowed to be used as evidence in her favor. The testimony of her family and friends regarding her wishes was thrown out. Most of the testimony from doctors and nurses about her condition was thrown out.

Of course, a newborn infant has no religious beliefs of her own, so we tend to apply her parents' religious beliefs to her. Their religious beliefs required them to neglect their daughter to the point of death, but their religious beliefs are no more relevent than Terri's.

Even if Rhiana had been a grown woman, who was a member of General Assembly and Church of the Firstborn, and she had told friends and family that she would never want any medical care under any circumstances, and there were dozens of doctors and nurses testifying that medical care would do more harm than good, that evidence is now inadmissable, thanks to judge greer, and every court that reviewed his findings.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Bull. There is no similiarity at all in these cases. Schiavo was kept in a quasi living state for over a decade through heroic expense and effort. This little child could have been saved by parents taking minimal effort and with a couple of dollars worth of medicine.

There was nothing unusual about the Schiavo case at all other than the hysteria whipped up. There are thousands of cases like it as we speak. But in almost all of those the parents/spouses accept reality something the Schindlers refused to consider.