Nothing from WND about Demer's latest violation of Terri's civil rights, but two new articles both commenting on acceptance of the right-to-die movement as a result of Roe v. Wade.
Florida court denies state guardians for fetuses
ORLANDO, Fla. - A Florida appeals court panel ruled on Friday that the state could not appoint a guardian for the fetus of a retarded rape victim, dismissing what civil liberties groups complained was an attack by Gov. Jeb Bush against abortion rights.
In a somewhat similar case, Bush intervened in a dispute involving a brain-damaged woman whose husband won a judge's permission to disconnect her feeding tube.
The Legislature passed a law last fall that allowed Bush to order the tube reinserted. The husband of the woman, Terri Schiavo, 40, has asked the courts to strike down the law.
In both cases, critics of Bush have accused him of trying to establish precedent for encroaching on the privacy of individuals. His supporters have applauded him for acting on his belief that "innocent life" should be maintained at any cost.
At BPNews
Equipping for pro-life cause among key ERLC aims, Land says
"By allowing this barbarity -- for over 30 years now we have been killing a baby every 20 seconds -- we have brutalized our whole society, including our court system, in that we have devalued and de-sanctified human life to the point that a court can as casually sentence a human being to die by malnutrition and dehydration as it can allow a partially delivered healthy baby to be murdered by a physician."
- Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission President Richard Land