A new day brings new consciousness and new conflicts - re-enactments from times immemorial. The questions of life and death, the cycle of life... driven today by wealth, emotions, greed and power.
The US Congress met for an emergency session on a Sunday, yesterday, to hurry through a legislation (which was immediately signed into a law by President Bush...) to intervene in the Terri Schiavo case http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7254897/?GT1=6305 (wonder how much of the Taxpayers' money was spent for this special session and what it could have achieved in the developing world !). Yes, the very same Pres. Bush who has led the US gloriously into Afganisthan and Iraq, has refused to ratify the Kyoto Protocol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol#Position_of_the_United_States ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol ) and has reduced development funding to poor nations. Remember the US governmental aid to tsunami victims ?
i' not a America-basher, nor am i against "Right to Life" - but then euthanasia is a major ethical (and legal!) debate - so is abortion and stem-cell research and cloning. It is not easy to choose sides and unequivocally declare a winner. But is definitely good for the ballot, for viewership ratings and for the attorneys...
Even the respected scientific journal Nature does not offer a lot of hope http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050321/full/050321-5.html
By the way, here is another piece of news which you may have missed, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7190457/ - probably because it did not hog primetime (because it happens all the time ?!). I leave you with your "pro-life" choice on this one...
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