[First Amendment]

THis Judge Crist spounts about the "right" of disable people to cause themeslves to die by refusing life support measures. In this case, that's like NAMBLA talking about the "right" of children to have sex. Tnat may sound harsh, but the "rights" they are both talking about are really the rights of some to torment or kill others. Same thing with the "rights" of women to kill the unborn.

I totally agree that if someone is being kept in their body by means of heart machine, respirator, etc and wants to let nature take its course and get unplugged. If I am ever in a situation like that, I will make the same choice. Especially if very old - for instance, my old grandmother was kept artificially alive through lots of machinery, and the doctors should have let nature take its course. She was 95, and the life they left her was horrible.

But that is completely, 100% different from this situation. The death-lovers are trying to lump different categories together that don't belong together.

Terri has the right to live. Saying she has the right to die is doublespeak. They just want to have the right to kill her.

[MHGinTN]

So far, through this entire decade plus struggle, there is no evidence of even one complaint filed in Pinellas County regarding abuse and/or neglect of Terri by her husband or nursing facility or courts. There is no record of a Flordia Protective Services complaint filed by someone on Terri's behalf. Perhaps such have been made, but there is no record of them. I have to wonder just how effective her defenders are if they haven't even filed through proper channels?

[MarMema]

They just want to have the right to kill her.

And not just her, either.