“... who decides what ‘terminal’ is?”
Very good question.
I wonder if we shouldn’t declare all folks who contracted HIV via ‘risky behavior’ to be terminal in terms of health care they will receive from the state???
When Kathy Sebelius said “...we shouldn’t sweat the details...”, she could not have been more wrong.
In this bill, it is the details that will torture us.
And a detail like “The Definition of ‘Terminal’: ????” leaves a moral hole big enough to drive a Mack Truck through.
The fact that the people who are crafting this legislation, beginning with the person who is pushing it the hardest, have no problem with the concept of aborting a 8 3/4 month baby, then leaving it gasping out its short life on a steel table in a linen closet without even a comforting hand to let it know that its short spark of life touched someone.
I am not making it into an abortion issue. But the point remains that when we surrender our choices to legislation created by those people, we all can be that doomed child.