While you were paying attention to Terri Schiavo . . .
Texas law allows hospitals to discontinue life-sustaining care, even if a patient's family members disagree.
It's one thing for the government to allow the overruling of a family's wishes by keeping a person alive. It's another thing entirely to overrule a family's wishes by KILLING THEIR BABY.
If the courts ultimately determine that Terri Schiavo should be allowed to die, that process can happen at that time if she is kept alive until then.
If the courts ultimately determine that this baby should be allowed to live, it can't be brought back from the dead.
There is no successful appeal to an already executed death sentence.
And, oh yes, let us not forget that it was our self-described "culture of life" President that signed this process into law while he was governor of Texas.
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I'm not the biggest fan of the Texas law, BUT, it's not entirely fair to criticize the "culture of life" President without considering the full context of that law.
It was actually an improvement in a "culture of life" direction at the time it was enacted
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It's always a tough call whether it's best to win incremental battles that you can win and do some good (but not all the good you would like), or stand totally on principle, not win passage of any legislation, and let a worse state of affairs prevail.
Libertarians never have that conundrum because they never actually win political power, but viable political parties do have to face it from time to time.
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