A Word on our Addled Platonic Guardians
As some of you may know, on January 8, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments for Quill v. Vacco, the case questioning the right to physician assisted suicide. Back in November, in conjunction with the American Center for Law and Justice of Virginia Beach, the Center for Law and Justice International filed an amicus curiae brief for the Court to consider.
The oral argument for Quill v. Vacco, in which most of the justices seemed to show grave misgivings about the supposed "right" to euthanasia, brought to the forefront what has come to be known as "abortion distortion": our U.S. Supreme Court has no trouble questioning the inhumanity of physician assisted suicide, but is utterly blind regarding physician assisted abortion. In other words, doctors and practioners of medicine should not participate in the death of the infirm, sick, or elderly, but have every right to do so in the death of children nestled in the womb. All of us shudder at the thought of the state condoning the likes of killing our elderly or suffering (perhaps because most of us will find ourselves in such a situation one day), but when it comes to innocent children, so small and defenseless they are silent and hidden from view, we sit back and think, "why not? There are too many of them. Let's call it a woman's right." God sees all, and whether the person made in His divine image and likeness is 90 years or 90 minutes old, the action is the same: willful and deliberate death.
During the arguments, Justice Ginsberg asked the question "Isn't there the possibility of a person saying, gee, I really thought I wanted it yesterday, but today I don't?" The same could be asked of the woman seeking an abortion. And Justice Kennedy stated, "You're asking us in effect to declare unconstitutional the law of 50 states." Why then did the court do so in Roe v. Wade?
We are of course thankful that regarding the question of physician assisted suicide, the Supreme Court appears it may possibly stumble onto a judicious opinion; we only hope they may one day protect the unborn.
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