Sunday, April 10, 2005

Is this good or bad?

This blog is discussing how Yale Law school is planning to rewrite our constitution, with funding from George Soros...

Some of the comments could be conservative or "progressive", depending on how you define freedom etc...

However, I am always leery when I read things like this:

Meantime, developments in biology, genetics, and medical treatment ensure that the next 15 years will be ones pushing the boundaries of reproduction, life, and death. This seems a time for caution in what we install as constitutional rules about each of these vital matters while permitting individuals and localities to experiment with the new possibilities.

actually, there is nothing new under the sun..."new possibilities"? Translation: Eugenics, abortion, infanticide, euthanasia...in all it's various forms. Such as what we see in the Netherlands...and which are being touted as "rights" in this country...

John Paul II, in Evangelium vitae, saw all these things. When I read it, I found he was even more paranoid than I was at what was being planned in bioethics seminars and in PC universities --ideas which have little public support but are being imposed by the courts...

However, the suggestion that these things are "new" is wrong. Plato wrote about them, complaining that doctors allowed sick people with poor quality of life to survive instead of encouraging them to end their lives...and in the Republic, eugenic breeding was popular, and of course infanticide of imperfect children was common...

Of course, as the saying goes: Watch what you wish for... you might get it...

Just imagine if a conservative such as Tom Delay gets to write the new constitution...

Judge Holmes, call your office...Ms. Bell wants to talk to you...

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