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Re: Hmm, so now state legislatures are practicing medicine...
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Wed, 22 Oct 2003 02:24:45 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Frank Filz wrote:
> So here's an interesting thought exercise related to this...

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?
> 
> 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?

The interesting part is I was thinking this might actually happen eariler today.
> 
> Can any pro-lifer not see the contradiction here?

Well I would not group anit-abortionists with the pro-life crowd. After all a
lot of those people belive "that shooting an Abortion Doctor is okay because of
the hundreds of lives it will save." I guess that is sort of digressing a bit
from the topic though. Or is that where you were headed?

-Mike Petrucelli



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  Re: Hmm, so now state legislatures are practicing medicine...
 
(...) Is there a real difference between a pro-lifer and an anti-abortionist? Well, obviously there are different life decision situations, that people might have different opinions about, so hmm, here is the list I can see (I've included some (...) (23 years ago, 22-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: Hmm, so now state legislatures are practicing medicine...
 
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 (...) (23 years ago, 21-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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