Whenever I see someone engaged in what I perceive as a pathological defense of a pathological practice (i.e., a dug-in defense of the "medical" propriety of killing off the defenseless), I have to wonder if there's a bit of a "personal issue" at werk, similar to the way that the most strident defenders of the "right to abort" will often turn out to be women who have aborted their own children, and now have something of a vested interest in proving -- not so much to "the world", as to themselves, that they really did NOT "do something wrong, something evil."
I would not be surprised if a statistical study of those who stridently advocate for euthanasia (regardless of the nomenclature they use) to be persons who have actively participated in "the decision" for a family member -- and now are deeply vested on a very personal level in the "need" to validate the practice.
If, as I suspect, this is the case for many of these people, then I expect that no amount of reasoning with them will accomplish anything at all. For them, it is a matter of absolute necessity that they maintain their position at all costs. To abandon their position would be to face an unthinkable alternative, quite likely entailing a complete emotional breakdown.
You would be right. People have always tried to excuse or rationalize their guilt. Cain tried to jive-talk the Lord after he slew Abel. Michael Schiavo reportedly pulled the tubes on both his parents before he did it to his wife.
Money is also a permanent motive for evil. Planned Parenthood is the country's biggest abortion mill. That's worth megabucks. Is it any wonder they have the Democratic Party out shilling for them?
Great posts, this one and the one just previous!