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Originally Posted by Cash
This topic is really boring, it doesn't deserve to be main news on major news agencies ... (btw, schiavo in Italian means slave)
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This is actually an extremely important legal case deciding who ultimately controls a person when they become incapacitated. We're joking around here quite a bit because we all think we are invincible. Terri wasn't born this way. None of us was born that way.
But tomorrow any of us could be in a car accident and end up like this. Who will decide for you? Your spouse? Or your parents?
I'd bet hardly anyone here has a liviing will addressing this point. Do you want the government to decide if your spouse says let you die, but your parents say keep you alive? That is why this case became so important in the news. Not only does it determine who gets to decide, it also will set legal precedent as to the power of the goverment over your life.
To say this case if boring is unfair to the case. It is etremely important as it goes to the basic "right to life" issues that conservatives hold dear to their hearts and half the population holds exactly opposite.
This is closely linked to the issue of what are the rights of an unborn fetus? What if the mother says I don't want this child, I'm getting and abortion, but the father to be says NO its half mine and I say let it live and give it to me? What if the government writes new laws that limit the decision making power of a couple to terminate a pregnency.
This is why cases like this are so critical. Their outcome affects all of us.