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Law & Mercy
We have an interesting study in contrasts here. On one hand, we have Congress and the President violating the Constitution in order to preserve a single life. We have a respected religious authority calling the removal of Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube “nothing more than state-sanctioned murder.” ...

...On the other hand, we have a US soldier in Iraq making the determination that another severely damaged life wasn’t worth preserving. Let’s compare the extreme and unconstitutional (by definition, illegal) lengths the “culture of life” types have gone to over Terri Schiavo to the following tidbit...

...he killing of this wounded Iraqi human being is being treated as equivalent to shooting a wounded dog in order to “put him out of his misery.”...