Too much going on, too fast, to post on Schiavo at this point. Anything I wrote would quickly be obsolete. But I am hopeful that a counter revolution has begun. For years, I have believed that the only way to win these bioethical debates was to yank them out of the ivory tower and place them where they belong in the public square. That may, at last, be happening. I am most encouraged.
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