Hmm...interesting on two counts:

1) My local paper last year published a series of articles about the eugenics movement in NC which lasted well into the 1970s.  What is particularly shameful is that young girls were sterialised for no reason other than 'seeming fast'.  The governor proposed compensation for the survivors but nothing has been done because of state budget shortfalls.

2) This is only one of many reasons to draft up a living will, which spells out what you want your family to do if you're on life support and are being kept alive by such support.  I have one drafted myself - no life support if I am terminally ill - such a document could have saved the agonies experienced by Terri's family in Florida.  I think it's shameful when the government steps in to decide such matters that belong inside the family.

Kat
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From: Kendall David Corbett <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Monday, October 11, 2004 2:33 pm
Subject: Interesting article on bioethics

> The link will take you to an article from a Lansing Michigan paper on
> bioethics, and people with disabilities "choosing" the right to
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> http://www.lansingcitypulse.com/041006/features/health.asp
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> Kendall Corbett
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> An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's redundant!)
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> The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
> persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all
> progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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> -George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
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