Posted on 03/24/2005 11:30:41 AM PST by AliVeritas
Terry Schiavo is near death. If actions are to be taken to save her life, they must be taken now.
Let us briefly review the relevant facts: Terri is a human being whose physical condition is in dispute, but perhaps not for long. She is the daughter of loving parents, and she has a brother and sister. She is the wife of a man who once loved her, may still love her, but has taken a new woman and has with her two children. It is his duty under Florida law, and by common sense, to be her guardian.
Florida courts have found that she is incapacitated and beyond repair. Doctors have voted three to two that she is in a "persistent vegetative state." Her husband and legal guardian claims that she would have wished not to be kept alive should she find such a state. The courts agree. Florida law, as interpreted by Florida courts, provides that she should be allowed to expire. It appears Terri Schiavo has no legal right to life.
But does Terri Schiavo have a natural right to life?
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Do you live in a timewarp? I do believe that General Washington has been dead for a couple hundred years.
Duuuhhh.
Perhaps I should explain it to you in succint terms. Comparing Terri Schiavo to the American Revolution is silly.
That's hilarious. So, no analogy may be drawn from analagous situations to illustrate core principles, which have no bearing on time?
On the contrary, Mary, the simile is quite exact.
Does President Bush have a right to get involved and can he do something now? I think he can.
I have made several of those such comparisms on my blog - explain how they are silly.
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