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To: Swordfished
It's always tragic when someone dies, but I'm glad Terri got what she wanted - not to continue life-prolonging measures. And the courts found that she would not wish to continue life-prolonging measures.

"Life-prolonging measures," ie "food and water."

Your heart is so hardened that you can't use the brain God gave you.

Terri Schindler Schiavo never asked to be tortured to death. And even if you're crazy enough to believe she did, it is a breach of the most foundational principle of American republican governance, the unalienable nature of the rights to life and liberty, to suggest that anyone has the right to do so under any circumstances. The word "unalienable" came from European property law, in which a subject was granted a piece of property to use as they please. No one but the sovereign could take it from them. However, they also COULD NOT GIVE IT AWAY.

132 posted on 03/01/2008 8:59:11 AM PST by EternalVigilance (McCain supporters: "We have nothing to offer but fear itself!")
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To: EternalVigilance

Well said.


145 posted on 03/01/2008 12:34:30 PM PST by dbehsman (Libertarians make poor humanitarians.)
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