…has been much on my mind lately; it’s even gotten me to watch CNN a couple of times, something I swore off during the election season last year. The main focus of my interest/horror, apart from just being generally depressed at the extent to which this woman is being treated as a political football and denied the right to die in peace, has been the midnight strike by a Congressional combined force of true extremists and cowed moderates giving in to the extremists to tread into an area where Congress has no business whatsoever.
Of course the moral, ethical, and medical issues haven’t escaped my attention either; it’s just that I think there are people who are far better able to comment on those than I am—and maybe none more so than Rivka, of the superb Respectful of Otters blog. I suggest that anyone with even a passing interest in this case read her posts on the subject.