[T'wit]

This Newsmax piece from a few days ago, Doctors Doube Darwinism, may be of interest. I don't know if it has been posted. What caught my eye is this point of view quoted below -- surely one that directly addresses the callous treatment of Terri Schiavo:

"Why is this issue important to patients treated by doctors? If a doctor believes human beings and other creatures do indeed show evidence of intelligent design, those same human beings are due significantly more reverence and respect than if they simply reflect natural selection working on a pointless series of chance events.

If a person is due no more respect than a chicken or lump of clay, he is as easily disposed of should someone more powerful (such as the doctor or a government agent) decide he has outlived his usefulness. That anti-human attitude isn't science fiction. It's the stated position of some contemporary bioethicists."

[T'wit]

Yeeks. "Doctors Doubt Darwin"

[cyn]

thanks for finding and posting that, and bump:

"If a person is due no more respect than a chicken or lump of clay, he is as easily disposed of should someone more powerful (such as the doctor or a government agent) decide he has outlived his usefulness. That anti-human attitude isn't science fiction. It's the stated position of some contemporary bioethicists."

...as well as some from a warped Christian perspective, who believe people like Terri need to be more quickly dispatched to their eternal reward, and that their parents and others who love them just need to get with the program. or so jim king and bishop lynch stated.