[Miss Behave]

"Even if something is legal, it doesn't make it morally right. To deny a fellow human being food and water is barbaric to me."

Truly barbaric, pickyourpoison...and stomach-turning. And for a very small minority of conservatives to line so ardently up in agreement regarding this issue with almost every leftist, in pinning their *legal* (LOL) tail on a very rank donkey ass, is soooo...well...Clintonesque.

Just about every (if not every) Conservative of note, thought, intelligence and cognition, respect, and (major) command of/expertise in Constitutional Law, has come down solidly and resolutely, at every turn, that it was WRONG to kill Terri. And that's a fact, Jack.

You can dress up ONE backwater probate judge, his sole *ruling*, and his and HINO's backers in Sunday's best, and apply Tammy Faye amounts of red lipstick...but a pig is a pig is a pig. Always has been, always will be.

[Miss Behave]

...not to mention a veritable plethora of religious leaders from Roman Catholic to Judaism to Episcopalian to Southern Baptist...and all points inbetween.

[Earthdweller]

Yes there are good guys on our side..unlike the likes of the American Medical Association who want to do away with presumption of life.

(click above to view excerpt source)

"Beware the Slippery Slope"

by Christian Medical Association Senior Policy Analyst Jonathan Imbody.

"I interviewed Dutch citizen Henk Reitsema, who related how his beloved grandfather, a cancer patient, naively asked a nursing home doctor in Groningen for relief of a painful thrombosis in his leg. The "compassionate" Dutch physician, trained in a medical culture that has promoted euthanasia more aggressively than palliative care, instead withheld food and water from Grandpa Reitsema while administering lethal doses of morphine."

"Family members discovered the deadly plan too late, and their beloved grandfather died at the hands of a physician who deemed his life not worth living. News media eventually uncovered records suggesting that the nursing home had pursued a diabolical "bed-clearing" policy of involuntary euthanasia."

*snip*

"Americans would do well to examine how the Dutch euthanasia and assisted suicide model has falsely promoted libertarianism and patient autonomy while granting doctors virtually unchecked power over life and death. Physicians today can draw from the highest technological advances in pain relief to provide effective consolation to suffering patients, yet past restrictions have chilled aggressive use of this pain technology. The answer to suffering near the natural end of life is not to empower doctors to kill, but to empower them to ethically and compassionately comfort their patients."

[presently no screen name]

Great Post!

that's it - you can't dress up evil. Although, the highly emotional can't see evil - their emotions get in the way. It's not evil - it's the law!! Like it's the law now that they can take your property. Corrupt judges make corrupt rulings to favor corrupt people.

And all the dribble that they want to die like Terri - let them!! The doctors can pull their plugs, pull their ears, pull their toes - and pull their chain - who cares. The difference is - it is THEIR wish, THEIR choice. Terri was not allowed to make that choice or given her rights by having an impartial guardian or have the right to a divorce which was her right since her husband betrayed her in more ways than adultery/fornication.

You are right - a pig is a pig is a pig. And murder is murder - granted by a legally blind judge.