With Terri Schiavo close to death as I write, let me say that what I say here is not going to affect the outcome. She is going to die. But so are 50 million unborn infants this year and every year, worldwide. For them, there are no headlines. There are representative cases that, for unpredictable reasons, do get headlines. The Schiavo case is one. Such cases are important as representative cases that point to where we are headed: judicially, morally, and economically. Terri Schiavo is going to die because the state is paying for her, and it wants off the hook. But it does not want to admit defeat, so it will not allow private parties to pick up the feeding tube and thereby pick up the tab. Such an action would challenge the state's monopolistic authority to provide life or deny it.
Posted by Editor at March 28, 2005 09:54 AM
