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01-29-2006, 08:29 PM
Townhall.com :: Columns :: Life is on the march by Tony Snow - Jan 29, 2006 (http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/tonysnow/2006/01/29/184227.html)
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The pro-life movement has passed the tipping point. Consider three stories:
Haleigh's Story:
One day after the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts told the state's Department of Social Services that it could remove a feeding tube from 11-year-old Haleigh Poutre, the little girl -- rendered comatose last year by a savage beating and burning from her step-father -- suddenly emerged from her "vegetative state," breathing on her own and responding to stimuli.
My personal favorite part of the article:
Before long, lawyers matched the dawn-of-life practice of abortion with the end-of-life business of euthanasia. They crafted a "right to die," spawned directly by abortion law and the claim that a dignified death is preferable to a difficult life.
Note: These "rights" are forced upon the helpless, not exercised for their benefit or protection. They express fashionable society's revulsion of imperfection and pain -- its view that it's better to die than to suffer, better to expire than linger as a shell of one's former self.
Modern Americans seem absurdly determined to wipe away all evidence of what previous generations understood and accepted about life -- its pains, challenges, surprises; its miraculous beginnings and eventual endings. The fear of hardship has created a cult of death. An obliging Supreme Court has crafted a jurisprudence to justify murders of convenience. More precisely, it supports the destruction of those whose inconvenient predicaments remind us that life sometimes is supposed to be hard -- and that the worst times can also be the best.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The pro-life movement has passed the tipping point. Consider three stories:
Haleigh's Story:
One day after the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts told the state's Department of Social Services that it could remove a feeding tube from 11-year-old Haleigh Poutre, the little girl -- rendered comatose last year by a savage beating and burning from her step-father -- suddenly emerged from her "vegetative state," breathing on her own and responding to stimuli.
My personal favorite part of the article:
Before long, lawyers matched the dawn-of-life practice of abortion with the end-of-life business of euthanasia. They crafted a "right to die," spawned directly by abortion law and the claim that a dignified death is preferable to a difficult life.
Note: These "rights" are forced upon the helpless, not exercised for their benefit or protection. They express fashionable society's revulsion of imperfection and pain -- its view that it's better to die than to suffer, better to expire than linger as a shell of one's former self.
Modern Americans seem absurdly determined to wipe away all evidence of what previous generations understood and accepted about life -- its pains, challenges, surprises; its miraculous beginnings and eventual endings. The fear of hardship has created a cult of death. An obliging Supreme Court has crafted a jurisprudence to justify murders of convenience. More precisely, it supports the destruction of those whose inconvenient predicaments remind us that life sometimes is supposed to be hard -- and that the worst times can also be the best.