I like Charles Krauthammer's
suggestion, which won't save Terri, but may prevent having to choose beetween tragedy and legal travesty in the future.
A blogger I frequently read, Little Miss Attila,
commented that "
Is God testing us? Are we afraid we will have failed that test if this one woman is allowed to die in peace?"
And in seeking a genuinely Christian perspective, that's a very reasonable question to pose. But I also think that a very reasonable corollary to that point is, "
maybe the opposite could be true - that we perhaps fail the test when we forget that the body is just a vessel, and focus myopically on our ability to preserve that vessel, even at cost of trapping the soul from returning home to Him".
Throughout this issue, I've mainly focussed on the legal question -
can Congress intervene, legally. Because that's an easier question, and the conclusion I drew was, no it can't. In terms of wider policy, yes; in terms of the original House bill, maybe - but not in a specific case, and not in the way that it tried to do so. I don't think that the legal question is irrelevant, I don't even think it's less important. But it
is dodging a bullet, because in this case, I think everyone feels a strong imperative tugging at their heart to reach a conclusion on the issue at hand, I just don't know what mine is.
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