[supercat]

As with Terri, only God knows what is best for this poor little girl. If God takes her now, who could say it is anything less than merciful.

If the girl is adequately cared for and dies anyway, that may be true. If she is starved to death, however, I would hardly regard God's failure to intercede as evidence of his agreement with the outcome.

[Jorge]

If the girl is adequately cared for and dies anyway, that may be true. If she is starved to death, however, I would hardly regard God's failure to intercede as evidence of his agreement with the outcome.

That depends on whether or not we consider being hooked up to a machine that keeps us breathing, or a feeding tube down the throat simply "adequate care" or extraordinary and unnatural means of life support.

God has always been quite capable of interceding to heal people, and I'm sure His will is not altered or defined by every new invention man comes up with to sustain human life in the most incapacitated states.

These are not such simple clear cut issues as some pretent them to be.

[mware]

Agreed, recall they pulled her off the respirator. She began to breath on her own.

I am assuming from the story that she began to breath some on her own and they must have put her back on the respirator and are weaning her of it gradually.

[Doe Eyes]

I would hardly regard God's failure to intercede as evidence of his agreement with the outcome.

If God wants her to live, she lives.