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To: ga medic
They are allowing her to die, which is obviously God’s will.

That's a very magisterial statement.

I can personally testify that intubation is extremely unpleasant.

This little girl deserves some peace and happiness with God, she has endured enough.

She certainly deserves peace and happiness - but we really do not have access to her sentiments in this matter at all.

What I do know is that no one has the right to force someone to violate their conscience and lose their peace and happiness by compelling him to do something immoral.

138 posted on 12/10/2007 11:21:46 AM PST by wideawake (Why is it that so many self-proclaimed "Constitutionalists" know so little about the Constitution?)
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To: wideawake

Magisterial? Why else would this little girl be dying if it wasn’t God’s will?

If you know that intubation is unpleasant, then why on earth would you say these parents were killing their child? Is it not acceptable for a parent to spare their child many painful interventions that would result in the same end? You condemn these parents in every post.

I do understand your point of forcing these teachers to violate their conscience, but it doesn’t really apply. I would imagine if the teachers that are working with this little girl truly felt they were required to resuscitate her, that they would have spoken out. If my employer was forcing me to do something I believed was morally wrong, I would request a diffferent setting, or quit. These teachers seem willing to do as the parents request, though they find the idea difficult. (I wouldn’t let my kids go near a teacher that didn’t find this difficult)
No one is “forcing” them to do anything.


178 posted on 12/10/2007 11:47:28 AM PST by ga medic
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