[lbo-talk] Re: living death

[C. G. Estabrook]

Even if that's true -- and I think it's at best a rather reductionist
reading -- haven't we recently agreed that the motives for holding a
position are no guide to the truth of that position?

And good for Ralph, BTW. --CGE

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005, Doug Henwood wrote:


> joanna bujes wrote:
> 
> >But, why in a nation where one third of the population can't afford 
> >to go to the doctor, there should be this kind of upheaval for 
> >keeping a woman in a vegetative state indefinitely....I haven't a 
> >clue.
> 
> It's a small minority of well-organized religious fanatics plus a 
> party in power that wants to pander to its base, and assumes (maybe 
> wrongly) that it has nothing to lose by alienating everyone else.