Let me hazard a guess myself, based on your inability or unwillingness to address it in past days, that you yourself give little regard to the Fifth or the Fourteenth Amendment's safeguards on the God-given and therefore unalienable right to life; or in Terri Schiavo's case, as a citizen of Florida, to that State's constitutional guarantees of the same as found in Article One, Section Two of that document.
You're putting legalisms ahead of the right to life of the individual American.
That is a very dangerous course, sir, fraught with peril.
Those "legalisms," Sir, are what protects the rights of the individual American. You would, apparently, trash the system, to keep what is left of a nearly dead accident victim, artificially alive in a form of "Living Death."
Me thinks that your priorities are backwards!
As for your Constitutional argument, it was considered in several appeals, both State and Federal in the case. Why can you not accept the result? There was no great universally applicable issue involved. The issues all concerned the particular individuals in the Schiavo case. Stop trying to use the poor family as a propaganda football. That is simply wrong.
Again, this is only a snap shot of my basic argument:
Terry Schiavo: An End To Rational Analysis?
William Flax
Exactly. After reading through all these posts I wonder how many of these writers have a pulse.
They write like they are quoting straight from a law 101 textbook.
When will these "just the law" types realize that the laws are created by imperfect humans that have made mistakes and that is why we carry our umbrella (The US Constitution) which they so willingly ignore?
They keep accusing Terri supporters of being emotional, irrational and even insane..maybe because they have a mechanical, blunted view of life and a tendency toward lacking any human emotion. Who does that describe? Oh yea..a lawyer . You could also some throw in sociopaths and robots in on that definition.
Thank God the majority of Republicans are still real humans who can feel and reason as well as read law text books..