Monday, President Bush spoke in regards to the extraordinary attempts to save the life of Terri Schiavo, “it is wise to always err on the side of life.” Personally I hate to err, period. This is neither leading nor following. It’s best to come out honestly; if he had come out and said, “I don’t believe in a right to die; if we allow the killing of the unresponsive then we had better get started on patients suffering from Alzheimer’s,” or “I don’t believe that our civil society should uphold a social contract where one of the participants has been in material breech for years”, I would have respected the answer more, whether or not I would have agreed with it.

How is it our Senators and Representatives act so quickly to change the jurisdiction of this case in the name of the preservation of one life, while since 1973 Roe v. Wade has yet to be returned to state jurisdiction by Supreme Court successions, jurisdictional changes via Article III, Section 1 of the Constitution, or the creation of a constitutional convention to amend the Constitution? Our elected officials’ application of “on the side of life” is inconsistent. Terri Schiavo will die without further action, but she got magnanimous treatment in comparison with those who don’t get representation.

The Schiavo legislation seems to be a bone thrown with impunity to the pro-life crowd.