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To: ContraryMary

Americans do not want the government involved in such end-of-life decisions.
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Tough. The prevention of murder is Job #1 for any government.

Twenty five years ago it was 'Americans do not want the government involved in the right to abort.' Now that 40 million Americans have been mass murdered, America is changing its mind.

Sometimes the will of the People is evil, and the job of a just goverment is to turn away that evil will and do what is just, regardless. It's called "leadership."


10 posted on 01/29/2006 10:19:46 AM PST by Appalled but Not Surprised
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To: Appalled but Not Surprised
Sometimes the will of the People is evil, and the job of a just goverment is to turn away that evil will and do what is just, regardless. It's called "leadership."

It's called dictatorship. In a representative democracy when elected officials don't follow the will of the people they are replaced. That's just how it works. As for the "will of the people" involving abortion, it wasn't the will of the people, it was the will of nine people -- or was it five of nine people? Get your facts straight.

17 posted on 01/29/2006 10:24:48 AM PST by ContraryMary (New Jersey -- Superfund cleanup capital of the U.S.A.)
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To: Appalled but Not Surprised
Sometimes the will of the People is evil, and the job of a just goverment is to turn away that evil will and do what is just, regardless.

Especially because bystanders are usually dragged into the supposedly private/family decision.

That happens because, whenever one person or group is guaranteed "rights," another group or person gets obligations to enforce or carry out those "rights." The people who are asked to enforce or carry out those "rights" may believe they are forced to act against their consciences.

* "[Nancy Cruzan, three days before her death from starvation] turned and looked at me and stared at me with a panicky look, sweating profusely, and the thought I had was, she was thinking, ‘Oh, here’s a policeman, he’ll help me.’ But we weren’t allowed to do that,"...Doug Seneker

126 posted on 01/29/2006 3:28:07 PM PST by syriacus (Help plan John Kerry's Fillet-Bluster at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1566194/posts)
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To: Appalled but Not Surprised

THANK YOU!!!!

The muddled thinking by our "leaders" in government on
life and death issues is beyond chilling.

Wake up America, we are beginning to repeat Hitler's Germany.


345 posted on 01/30/2006 9:02:10 AM PST by Lesforlife ("For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb . . ." Psalm 139:13)
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