Remembering Terri Schiavo: Debate on Ending Patients’ Lives Continues

The pro-life movement opposes state-sanctioned interventions that permit the killing of innocent human beings precisely because they permit the killing of innocent human beings. The slippery-slope argument — the opposition to state overreach generally — is a secondary point.

I was reminded of this by the passing of the anniversary of the death of Terri Schiavo.

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Madeleine Kearns

Madeleine Kearns is a former staff writer at National Review.

The pro-life movement opposes state-sanctioned interventions that permit the killing of innocent human beings precisely because they permit the killing of innocent human beings. The slippery-slope argument — the opposition to state overreach generally — is a secondary point.

I was reminded of this by the passing of the anniversary of the death of Terri Schiavo.