You Knew There Had to be One Out There

Catholic priest and university professor, Father Kevin O'Rourke, thinks Gov. Bush did a bad thing for Terri.

O'Rourke, the author of four books on medical ethics, finds it sad that the governor has tried to justify his actions on religious grounds and that Bush has used Schiavo's plight to curry favor with the religious conservatives.

''For Christians, it is a blasphemy to keep people alive as if you were doing them a favor, to keep people alive in that condition as if it benefits them. It doesn't benefit them,'' O'Rourke argues. "I know it is wrapped up in the pro-life, antiabortion activity, and while I am antiabortion, I also know there is eternal life and that we should not confuse or equate the antiabortion effort with the notion of withdrawing life support from dying people.

"They act as though the most important thing is to lead a long life and Christians who read the Gospel seriously believe that it is a good life you are pursuing, not a long life. But this notion of having a long life has become the watchword for these groups. Life is terminal. Life by definition is going to have an end.''

Also note this crazy comment by Sandol Stoddard, one of the founders of the hospice movement in the United States: "We are in the most death denying society that I have ever heard about or read about. We just don't want to accept the idea that we are going to die.'' You think Stoddard might be pro-abortion?