[Cato1]

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[Cato1]

Send him an email at john.paris@bc.edu or call Office Location 21 Campanella Way, Room 316 Boston College Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 Phone: 617.552.8434 Fax: 617.552.0716 Personal Web Site http://www2.bc.edu/~paris/ Office Hours Wednesday 10:30-12:00 and by appointment.

[watchdog_writer]

Pamela A.M. Campbell  was the attorney that lost the Terri Schiavo trial.

Although she no longer works as a lobbyist, she remains active in politics. She is a member of the Suncoast Tiger Bay Club and a former board member for the organization. "One of our greatest rights as Americans is our responsibility to speak out and participate," she says."I have two times every year when I make an evaluation of my life and decide what I should do differently," she says. "Those days are July 15, my birthday, and New Year's Eve.http://www.stpetebar.com/index_frame.htm?http://www.stpetebar.com/v3_giv_campbell.htm

 

[foghornleghorn]

Having read the brief, I can say with certainty that the arguments for killing Terri are pure BS. First, the language criticizes the Governor for making a "political" decision, which, of course is as far from the truth as you can get. Jeb Bush faced great political risk in making his decision in favor of Teri's Law. He was attempting to act to protect an innocent life in the only way he thought he could. These guys writing the brief obviously have an anti Bush agenda. Furthermore, they state that Teri's wishes were determined by "clear and compelling evidence". That is ludicrous. Even a cursory review of the timeline and the events in this case would convince any unbiased person that the evidence is ambiguous at best. Just as in a capital crime, when there is doubt the decision should favor life. This is a clear case of the legal positivists demanding that one ignore moral law and simply follow the established codes. My god! If only the Germans in the 1930's had resisted this error the world would be a far better place today.

[LibFreeOrDie]

This creep is a professor of "bioethics", no less.

As a BC grad, I'm not surprised. They're as liberal now as any other college. They'd better not send me any more requests for donations. I will withhold all financial nourishment from them.

[catholic_zen]

While Jesuits tend to be the most liberal brothers of the catholic order, they also stand for a more educated and integral view on life. This correlation makes sense, for liberalism increases as education increases (a study by UCLA’s Higher Education Research Institute found that 48% of our nation’s full time undergraduate professors identify themselves as "liberal" or "far left" while only 18% identify themselves as "conservative" or "far right").

Fr. Paris is correct in his opinions in the Schiavo case. He supports his arguments with official policies of the church as an organization and not with the opinions of individual men. (In this writer's opinion, in the pope's increasing years and decreasing health, cardinals have been "influencing" the Pope's ideas more and more) If you have read Pope John Paul II’s "Evangelium Vitae," you will see that it addresses the idea of human dignity, while still arriving at the same conclusion of burdensome medical treatment: it can be withheld. When it comes to church doctrine, official Vatican declarations and well thought out articles should take precedence over opinions and hurried speeches. It sounds to me that the bishops and priests have made personal decisions about the outcome of the Schiavo case, and are not necessarily embracing the church's (as an organization) standpoint.

If teams of physicians and neurologists agree that Terri is in PVS than it is up to us to believe them. Their years of training and specialization make them much more qualified than anyone to determine her chances of recovery. The nurse's ideas of improvements should be disregarded, for she lacks the scientific understanding to make such observations.