[Peace-discuss] Imperfect persons

[C. G. Estabrook]

What do you find devious or distorted about it, Mort? 
Hentoff concludes -- it seems to me quite rightly -- that
"This is the seminal case for whether euthanasia for th3e
seriously disabled becomes embedded in the American way of
death."  --CGE


---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 20:38:11 -0500
>From: "Morton K. Brussel" <brussel4 at insightbb.com>  
>Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Imperfect persons  
>To: "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at uiuc.edu>
>Cc: peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net
>
>Nat Hentoff is an ardent attacker of a woman's right to
choose, of a  
>person's right to ask for for assisted suicide, etc..
>This article is about the presumed injustice done to Terri
Shiavo,  
>and the evil Michael Schiavo.
>It is devious distorsion and one sided.  I wouldn't take
anything he  
>says here at face value. --mkb
>
>On Jul 12, 2005, at 7:56 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
>
>> Nat Hentoff has good column in the N-G tonight:
>>
>> <http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/hentoff1.asp>.
>>
>> It may turn out that the first decade of the 21st century in
>> America will be the time when the principle was established
>> that imperfect persons -- physically or mentally (i.e., having
>> the wrong ideas) -- could be imprisoned indefinitely or have
>> their lives ended by the state.  --CGE