> "People already have the right to refuse unwanted treatment, and suicide
> is not illegal. What we oppose is a public policy that singles out
> individuals for legalized killing based on their health status. This
> violates the Americans With Disabilities Act, and denies us equal
> protection of the laws. Disability opposition to this ultimate form of
> discrimination has been ignored by most media and courts, but countless
> people with disabilities have already died before their time." --Not Dead
> Yet: The Resistance, a disability rights organization, Forest Park,
> Illinois, October 28, 2003.
>
> Whatever else is going on in the Terri Schiavo case, legally and
> politically, it seems clearly to be "legalized killing based on [her]
> health status." It's been to justify that -- or to cover it up -- that
> such pains have been taken to establish in court that that is what Terri
> (would have) wanted. --CGE
Pulling out a feeding tube isn't killing someone, unless you want to blow up the line dividing acts and omisions. Christians typically don't, though perhaps Christ himself did.
-- Luke