- Thu, Feb 18, 2010
- Culture and Worldview, Prolife
Aftermath Lessons from Terri Schiavo’s Life and Death
The controversy over the decision of judges to starve her to death is not going away anytime soon—and that’s a good thing.
The controversy over the decision of judges to starve her to death is not going away anytime soon—and that’s a good thing.
Today, November 10, 1994, the outcome has been declared official. The state of Oregon became the first jurisdiction in the history of the human race to legalize physician-assisted suicide. Even the Netherlands (which commonly practices it) and Nazi Germany (which practiced it in its involuntary form) were not so bold and presumptuous as to pretend to legitimize it through making it legal. No one on the planet has ever done that until now.