Naturally Mark Steyn gets it right. This is classic conservative thought no matter what Andrew Sullivan tries to claim. This is common sense of the highest order. Read it all and weep that we have wrought a legal system so able to destroy a life for the seeming sheer pleasure of it. I am disgusted by it. Life is not to be trampled on, not to be taken for granted, to be spit on and cast aside like some dirty underwear. How vile we have become.
- No compelling reason to kill Terri Schiavo: “This is not a criminal, not a murderer, not a person whose life should be in the gift of the state. So I find it repulsive, and indeed decadent, to have her continued existence framed in terms of ”plaintiffs” and ”petitions” and ”en banc review” and ”de novo” and all the other legalese. Mrs. Schiavo has been in her present condition for 15 years. Whoever she once was, this is who she is now — and, after a decade and a half, there is no compelling reason to kill her. Any legal system with a decent respect for the status quo — something too many American judges are increasingly disdainful of — would recognize that her present life, in all its limitations, is now a well-established fact, and it is the most grotesque judicial overreaching for any court at this late stage to decide enough is enough. It would be one thing had a doctor decided to reach for the morphine and ”put her out of her misery” after a week in her diminished state; after 15 years, for the courts to treat her like a Death Row killer who’s exhausted her appeals is simply vile.”
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