Right to Die

Jeb Bush continues the Repug conceit that only they know who should die and when.

For the second time this year, Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida is seeking to sway a contentious case involving an incapacitated person, this time trying to keep a brain-damaged woman alive against her husband's wishes.

Mr. Bush's decision to file a friend-of-the-court brief on Tuesday came days after his attorney general, Charles Crist, declined to get involved in the case.

Conservatives continue to interfere in the rights of those who wish to die with dignity and of women who would maintain control of their bodies. And yet, completely without irony, they will demand that the government put to death criminals regardless that they cannot guarantee that an innocent person will not be killed. To say nothing of the barbarism of the act itself.

Conservatives demand that government stay out of their lives, but they sure do want to meddle in everyone else's.