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To: bentway who wrote (16370)	4/6/2005 11:04:52 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20773

Haven't you heard? Some lives are more "pro" than others. It's the relativist application of a supposedly absolute moral concept. Complete horse puckey, in other words, totally unprincipled self-serving political garbage from the mouths of demagogues who couldn't maintain an honest position over time if their pathetic political lives depended on it. So they lie and evade the contradictions to make it all sound sweet. And 51% of the public sometimes buys the act. Apparently less now that Bush is losing his way in domestic politics again, where he was pretty much a washout before 9/11.

To: bentway who wrote (16370)	4/6/2005 11:35:33 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20773

Life support is removed from TERMINAL patients frequently. Terminal means they are dying. The baby you mentioned in TX had a congenital defect which prevented his lungs from developing.* Terri Schiavo wasn't terminal when her food and water were cut off. She could have lived for decades with food, water and basic medical care. *(I am upset though that life support was cut off w/o the mothers approval, however - she wanted to "give him more time" in hopes of a miracle I suppose. I wish they'd given more time till she was convinced of the futility.) I don't understand why people in favor of starving Terri S. to death bring up executions of convicted murderers. I would think if one is hard-hearted enough to see a young woman put to death who is not terminal and not in pain and who has committed no crime, they would no object to putting to death people who have committed brutal murders. I find this highly hypocritical. Logically one who objects to execution of murderers, and I can see that many people do, should be even more concerned with the life of an innocent.