Robert P. (the Princeton prof) George sent this e-mail to some friends right after the Schiavo news broke. I know some in these parts disagree that she was killed, but many don’t, as well (and, here, is NR’s editorial today, just up). So, I’m going to share this, with his permission—and I think most of us can agree, at least, that we need some good to come out of this, and erring on the side of life in our hospitals, laws, and courts (regardless of your opinion on what happened here is) should be a goal:

Let us mourn, but not be discouraged. Let us forgive those who have acted wrongly in our name, even as we beg forgiveness from the Author of Life for whatever failures and delinquencies on our own parts have contributed to the culture of death. We are all sinners, and have fallen short; and the wages of sin truly are death. Let us resolve that Terri’s death shall not have been in vain. In her name, let reform and renewal be our undoubted mission. Let us now, even in the depths of sorrow, rededicate ourselves to our ancient creed, affirming that every human being, as a creature fashioned in the divine image, possesses a profound, inherent, and equal worth and dignity–a worth and dignity that it is the high duty of the officers and institutions of constitutional republican government to respect and defend.