[dufekin]

Ever hear of incrementalism? Judge George Greer is setting a bold precedent regarding the personhood of humans born as free persons here. Just you wait until next time. It'll get worse. Greer's really trying to set the precedent that just any judge can revoke our personhood--and hence the certain inalienable rights of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, endowed in each of us by our Creator--irreversibly. He's building on earlier precedent, that neither those born as slaves (Dred Scott v. Sandford, 1857) nor those not yet born (Roe et al. v. Wade, 1973) are persons despite their human genome. Now that the Judges have this precedent on which to build, expect broad classes of humans to be denied their personhood.

[thoughtomator]

Yep, they're already looking to terminate comatose inmates in California, allegedly for financial reasons. And the "life unfit for living" meme marches onward.

[cyncooper]

Ever hear of incrementalism? Judge George Greer is setting a bold precedent

Cite, please, that this case has set precedent rather than is following precedent.