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To: T'wit; Paleo Conservative; wagglebee; BykrBayb; bjs1779
"Where there is life, there is hope..."

OTOH I just gotta wonder if the same concerns of suffering families apply to those of innocents euthanized.

In the contentious death penalty debate, they are a group that often goes overlooked. Family members of the condemned haven't committed the crimes that landed their loved ones on death row. But they often feel punished by a society that sometimes shuns them and by a grief that few understand.

Their unique experiences are detailed in the report "Creating More Victims: How Executions Hurt the Families Left Behind," by Murder Victims' Families for Human Rights. The anti-death penalty organization in Cambridge, Mass., is made up of families of murder victims and families of the executed.

Families of the condemned feel punished, too

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1,111 posted on 01/01/2007 5:21:27 AM PST by 8mmMauser (Jezu ufam tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
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To: All; TheSarce; shrinkermd; bjs1779; BykrBayb; T'wit; wagglebee
This new thread just in. Thanks to The Sarce for pinging to the thread by shrinkermd. Making it easy for the "choice" enthusiasts...

There's a big change coming for pregnant women: Down syndrome testing no longer hinges on whether they're older or younger than 35. This week, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists begins recommending that every pregnant woman, regardless of age, be offered a choice of tests for this common birth defect.

The main reason: Tests far less invasive than the long-used amniocentesis are now widely available, some that can tell in the first trimester the risk of a fetus having Down syndrome or other chromosomal defects.

Group Recommends Down Syndrome Testing

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1,112 posted on 01/01/2007 6:22:58 AM PST by 8mmMauser (Jezu ufam tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
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To: 8mmMauser
Referring to Saddam's execution, a lawyer close to me muttered "barbaric" in an e-mail. I haven't yet replied, but it seems to me if that that is precisely why people hate lawyers. If Saddam had escaped justice, all of his victims' families and everyone else who treasures justice would have been outraged -- and would have blamed America's fancy-pants notions of due process and justice for sale if you have a fancy lawyer. Their grasp of the facts may be wobbly but the feelings are only too valid -- Saddam never showed his victims any mercy but he himself would have escaped justice due to decadent western values. And they are right.

When Muslims see us as degenerate, they are looking at the cancer of liberalism.

1,114 posted on 01/01/2007 8:06:26 AM PST by T'wit (Liberalism is in every particular the attitude and tactics of insufferable little girls.)
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