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Subject:	Re: Hmm, so now state legislatures are practicing medicine...
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Tue, 21 Oct 2003 23:00:35 GMT
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So here's an interesting thought exercise related to this... Let's say the husband gets sick of this and brings a gun to the hospital to try and shoot his wife, but gets stopped by a nurse. So then, the state of Florida decides that that sounds like terrorism and puts the guy on trial for his life. Could we then see the same government putting every resource into killing someone while at the same time putting every resource into keeping that person's wife alive? Can any pro-lifer not see the contradiction here? Frank

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		Re: Hmm, so now state legislatures are practicing medicine...
(...) Rhetorically, you've come to the right place. You also slam-dunked it each time. I have nothing to add. Tragic story from every angle. -- Hop-Frog (21 years ago, 22-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

		Re: Hmm, so now state legislatures are practicing medicine...
(...) Personally I don't understand why they want to keep her body alive when all of the doctors agree she is brain dead. What good is the empty shell? (...) The interesting part is I was thinking this might actually happen eariler today. (...) Well (...) (21 years ago, 22-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		Hmm, so now state legislatures are practicing medicine...
(URL) case is pretty disturbing. It seems that folks want to go to no end of efforts to keep people alive. Are we headed for a future where we can't have our LEGO because someone feels that the energy that is spent to develop, purchase, and play (...) (21 years ago, 21-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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