I would prefer to believe that a market in fetal organs would empower women to use their reproductive capabilities to their own economic advantage.

Most people are far more concerned that they can control their own bodies than they are about petitioning Congress.

I suspect that the vast majority of people, not knowing in advance whether they will either end up in a permanently vegetative state or be diagnosed with cancer, would prefer that any resources that would be spent on PVS care be reallocated to cancer research - or some similar enterprise that has the potential to help human beings who might actually recover.

The cold, cruel reality is that with one current justice now approaching ninety, and four others over seventy, the day will inevitably arrive when a sitting justice lies in an intensive care unit, both unable to resign and unable to resume his or her duties.

There is a fundamental difference, however, between asking to be permitted to keep a vegetative relative on costly machinery, and asking the taxpayers or society as a whole to pay for such machinery.

The boss is never your friend, even if you're sleeping with him.

A free society, to be truly worthy of that name, owes healthy, competent individuals the right to end their lives on their own terms.