Comments on: Consciousness in Persistent Vegetative States http://firstthings.com/blogs/evangel/2010/02/consciousness-pvs/ A First Things Blog Tue, 06 Nov 2012 13:35:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Caffeinated Thoughts http://firstthings.com/blogs/evangel/2010/02/consciousness-pvs/#comment-6246 Caffeinated Thoughts Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:50:06 +0000 http://firstthings.com/blogs/evangel/?p=3988#comment-6246 <strong>Latte Links (2/9/10)...</strong> Some items of interest, well at least interesting to me . Cato @ Liberty: Senate Health Bill May Violate First Amendment Weekly Standard: Obama Has Learned Nothing by Matthew Continetti First Things – On The Square: The Most Influential Conservative Bo... Latte Links (2/9/10)…

Some items of interest, well at least interesting to me . Cato @ Liberty: Senate Health Bill May Violate First Amendment Weekly Standard: Obama Has Learned Nothing by Matthew Continetti First Things – On The Square: The Most Influential Conservative Bo…

]]> By: Truth Unites... and Divides http://firstthings.com/blogs/evangel/2010/02/consciousness-pvs/#comment-6242 Truth Unites... and Divides Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:54:32 +0000 http://firstthings.com/blogs/evangel/?p=3988#comment-6242 <i>"This calls for a massive rethinking of how we should interpret what’s going on in persistent vegetative state diagnoses. ... Our courts have relied on that judgment to excuse what turns out to be the killing of a conscious human being."</i> Good post, Jeremy. Sanctity of life issues, from abortion to the killing of conscious human beings who are (mis)diagnosed as being in persistent vegetative state, are very important. “This calls for a massive rethinking of how we should interpret what’s going on in persistent vegetative state diagnoses. … Our courts have relied on that judgment to excuse what turns out to be the killing of a conscious human being.”

Good post, Jeremy.

Sanctity of life issues, from abortion to the killing of conscious human beings who are (mis)diagnosed as being in persistent vegetative state, are very important.

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