Fred and Terri tar baby dailies....
Again and again, they appear. Poor Fred in his last sentence hopes this will go away, as that phrase is repeated again and again. It is stuck on him just as wetoldjaso. He may not ever understand just how important it was to defend the life of this innocent, but the media will assure it is in his face anyway.
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You may recall, candidate Fred Thompson was asked a few weeks ago about the highly controversial Terri Schiavo right-to-die case from two years ago in which the husband of a Florida woman in a persistent vegetative state wanted to remove her feeding tube. Her parents went to court and Gov. Jeb Bush, Congress and other politicians got into the struggle.
Thompson said he didn't really recall much about the case, and some people clucked and said, How could he not? Well, Thompson was talking with some reporters last week and, it turns out, he remembers it too well. He just didn't want to talk about it: Like a growing number of Americans, he had gone through a similar end-of-life decision -- regarding his daughter five years ago.
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Then he added, "I will assure you one thing: No matter which decision you make, you will never know whether or not you made exactly the right decision. So making this into a political football is something that I don't welcome. And this will probably be the last time I ever address it."
Romney names new terrorist leader... template_bas template_bas Also, Chuck endorses Mike, Storm Lake likes Joe, Ellen disses John, Specter surprises and Fred knew too well about Schiavo.
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Who would have thought up this amazingly novel concept. It is so simple no wonder it wasn't considered before.
Don't make murder a crime!
Wow!
Consider this X00 guy. And no, it didn't come from the Margaret Sanger Gazette, or the Auschwitz Express, but from a mainstream publication.
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FORMER Beckley minister George Exoo — who consoled an Irish woman while she quietly took her life with sleep-inducing pills and helium — cannot be extradited to Ireland to face a possible 14 years in prison, a U.S. magistrate ruled Friday. The offbeat Unitarian preacher was freed from jail, where he had been held since June.
Hurrah. This development may be one more small step toward securing the legal right of desperate people to end their lives, when their pain and torment become too severe.
Of course, it’s impossible to stop determined folks from committing suicide by themselves, when they willfully desire it. But conservative lawmakers and fundamentalist groups endlessly try to punish anyone who aids their right to die.
Jack Kevorkian, an eccentric known as “Dr. Death,” spent eight years in a Michigan prison for murder because he helped a Lou Gehrig’s disease victim end his hopeless life. When the physician was released four months ago, the Catholic Diocese of Detroit branded him a “pathological serial killer.”
Oregon passed a 1997 “Death With Dignity” law that lets doctors prescribe lethal doses of sleeping pills for terminal, miserable patients. About 300 dying Oregonians have used it, so far. The Bush administration, backed by white evangelicals, fought the law to the U.S. Supreme Court, which upheld Oregon last year. Only far-right justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and John Roberts voted to criminalize physician help.
The grotesque Terri Schiavo case, in which Republican congressmen rushed into emergency session to continue life-support machines sustaining a brain-dead woman, spotlighted the thorny topic.
The right to die isn’t a simple issue. But it’s one that must be faced, as more Americans live to advanced age and many suffer terminal agonies of cancer, etc. Solving this dilemma won’t be helped by throwing doctors and ministers into prison cells.
We hope last week’s liberation of the Rev. Exoo adds a bit more legal support for the principle that desperate, dying people have a right to take control of their final days, and to enter the unknown without pain.
Right to die... # Don't criminalize it
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