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Death with Stupidity: The Tortured Reasoning of Montana?s High Court

By ADF Alliance Alert

E. Christian Bugger writes at the Culture of Life Foundation: In late December, Montana became the third state (behind Washington and Oregon) to permit physician assisted suicide to terminally ill patients. The State Supreme Court in Baxter et al. v. State of Montana was considering an appeal of a ruling from a lower district court dated December 2008 . . . the court?s tortured 'reasoning,' . . . departs so far from commonly accepted ways of moral reasoning (which are not the province only of educated moral theologians, but available rationally to all thinking persons) that not only it but the system that tolerates it deserve criticism. Judges should not be able to engage in irrational textual or other argument just because they?re judges . . . "

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on January 26, 2010 (boomark / email).