The truth comes out.
You do not believe in the sanctity of life. How are you going to turn around abortion then?
You believe that only healthy people are entitled to the rights of an American citizen and that "some" are endowed with the ability and power to judge the worth and "liveness" of other - inferior - beings. And, that judgment then deems them unworthy of American citizenship.
You can couch it however you want, but I've read your posts and your views are coming through loud and clear.
And, you know what? I do not believe that you even want to fight abortion. A person with your views would be totally in agreement with a woman deciding whether her own son or daughter has the opportunity to experience life instead of eons of nothingness.
And when you believe that you are the decider of whether your son or daughter gets life, of course, you are the decider of whether people you do not love have the justification to continue living in this country.
Why do you think I would say I am opposed to abortion, if I was not opposed to abortion?
Why do you claim to be in favor of the sanctity of life, and then want to artifically alter it, in the manner you seem to be demanding--forcing someone who in the natural order would die in peace, to be kept alive against their will, by means very different than those provided by the Creator.
Make no mistake, as I point out at several places in the essay (Terry Schiavo: An End To Rational Analysis?), people have a right to expend their resources to keep their bodies artificially alive, even when cognitive functions have ceased. I believe in that Freedom. But why would anyone who claims to believe in the Sanctity of Life, want to make a cause out of forcing people to decide on such a course?
You totally ignore the reality; that spending resources on keeping people alive against their will, deprives the younger members of a family, from the unborn babes on, of the use of those same resources. The culture of the "Living Death," that you seem to want to force on others, is most certainly not a culture of Life. Through all the ages of man, death has been a part of the life cycle. It is not a denial or trivialization of the importance of life, to understand the characteristics of life--one of which is the fact that at a certain point, death naturally ensues.
The fanaticism of the Schiavo protesters undermines the chances of curbing abortion, because it frankly terrifies a large part of the living population, who see in the Terry Schiavo case a true nightmare--not the one you imagine. Very, very few of us would ever want to be kept alive for 15 years in the condition of poor Terry. But you do not see that, and imagine it a sound issue on which to take the ideological field. You simply do not see the forest for the trees.
William Flax