The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a plea from the parents of a brain-damaged Florida woman to order her feeding tube reconnected, dealing a sharp blow to their seven-year legal fight to prolong their daughter's life.
The highest U.S. court denied without comment a request made late on Wednesday by Bob and Mary Schindler for an emergency order to restart nutrition for Terri Schiavo, whose feeding tube was removed six days ago.
With the parents' hopes of prolonging Schiavo's life now all but closed, a Florida court was considering a petition from a state government agency to take custody of Schiavo.
What have we become? Compromise by compromise, step by step we have moved from a nation, valuing human life as sacred, to the promotion of death for those who have become inconvenient. Then, we wonder why children take guns to school and execute their fellow students. Why not, we've taught them human life has little value and can be ended on a whim.
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