[msnimje]

You think the CONGRESS should have been involved in this?

What if the CONGRESS told you that you should end the life of your child?

[don-o]

What if the CONGRESS told you that you should end the life of your child?

Rubbish.

[EternalVigilance]

What if the CONGRESS told you that you should end the life of your child?

Well, I'll burn up your straw man, if you insist.

If Congress did such an unconstitutional thing, they would need to be resisted by every other branch of government, and by every citizen. They would have made themselves lawless.

And that's the point in Terri's case. A local judge issued a literal death warrant, to be carried out by cruel and unusual means. Every individual who had raised their hand and sworn to uphold the constitution had an obligation to resist such an unconstitutional act with all their power and might.

[IIntense]

What if the CONGRESS told you that you should end the life of your child?

You've lost me with that! Can you cite a case where that ever occurred?

We're discussing a situation which DID take place, but do you recall that it is the JUDICIAL branch which carried out their decree that "you should end the life of your child"?

While the parents, along with the siblings, fought against this court-ordered (justice branch) euthanasia, the JUSTICE branch of our government decided that their daughter, and sister, had to die.

In case you're tempted to bring up a whole different subject...capital punishment...that is not what we are discussing here.