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19 January, 2006

Do you really want the state involved?

I mentioned the Massachusetts authorities and their successful petition to the court to withdraw life support from a little girl the other day.

Well, it turns out the little girl is breathing on her own and responding to stimuli.

This confirms that slippery slope for me. These people, with what I presume are the very best intentions, decided that this little girl should not be continued on life support. (This is NOT at all the same thing as sentencing a convicted criminal to death. This is allowing an innocent to die. Not at all similar.)

And they may very well have been appallingly wrong.

Do you want the state involved in these decisions for you? For your family?