Just what spontaneously comes to mind:
(1) "Inalienable right to life" --- "...to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men" -- do these phrases sound familiar? Are they relevant to the purposes of government?
(2) What part of Terri Schindler Schiavo's family? Her estranged, trust-fund-embezzling, adulterous husband who wanted her dead? Or her parents, brother and sister who upheld her right to simply go on living (and were willing to pay for it)? And
(3)Shouldn't the government stay out of this, specifically the County Probate Judge (!) who (by what authority?) ordered her death by starvation/dehydration?
A government with the power to insist I stay alive, has the equal power to insist I die. Just depends upon who is in charge.
What part of Terri Schindler Schiavo's family? Her estranged, trust-fund-embezzling, adulterous husband who wanted her dead? Or her parents, brother and sister who upheld her right to simply go on living (and were willing to pay for it)? And
Terri chose Michael to be the person to make her decisions by marrying him. Her parents should have had no legal standing.
Shouldn't the government stay out of this, specifically the County Probate Judge (!) who (by what authority?) ordered her death by starvation/dehydration?
If the Schindlers hadn't insisted that the courts be involved, they wouldn't have been.