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Our courts and our elected officials are IGNORING the Constitution.

I'll give you one thing. The 436 political hacks in Washington are ignoring the Constitution. Have been doing it for over 100 years. So we agree on that. However, not all courts are ignoring the Constitution. I realize the Whigs don't care too much for the 10th Amendment, but for conservatives it's still there. And apparently, to Justice Scalia it's still there as well...

I would have preferred that we announce, clearly and promptly, that the federal courts have no business in this field; that American law has always accorded the State the power to prevent, by force if necessary, suicide - including suicide by refusing to take appropriate measures necessary to preserve one's life; that the point at which life becomes "worthless," and the point at which the means necessary to preserve it become "extraordinary" or "inappropriate," are neither set forth in the Constitution nor known to the nine Justices of this Court any better than they are known to nine people picked at random from the Kansas City telephone directory; and hence, that even when it is demonstrated by clear and convincing evidence that a patient no longer wishes certain measures to be taken to preserve her life, it is up to the citizens of Missouri to decide, through their elected representatives, whether that wish will be honored. It is quite impossible (because the Constitution says nothing about the matter) that those citizens will decide upon a line less lawful than the one we would choose; and it is unlikely (because we know no more about "life-and-death" than they do) that they will decide upon a line less reasonable. (emphasis added) Cruzan v. Director, MDH, 497, U.S. 261 (1990)

Just embrace that in trying to change the intent of the Constitution and destroy the limitations that disagree with your warped belief system, you have become what you claim to hate. A liberal.