So Dr. Cheshire says Terri Schiavo was misdiagnosed...

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...Jeb must've asked him for a favor. Here's some interesting info on Dr. William Cheshire...

“The astonishing pace of biotechnology is serving up critical issues in which the church needs to be engaged,” says Trinity Graduate School alumnus William P. Cheshire, Jr. (MA/Bioethics ’01). Bill is assistant professor of neurology at Mayo Clinic (Jacksonville, Fla.) and serves as adjunct faculty at Trinity Graduate School. He claims that, “even more than terrorism, bioethics presents us with the crucial decisions of our day that the church dare not ignore.” Certainly in today’s post-9/11 environment, there are many possible evil scenarios that can no longer be dismissed as unimportant or morally neutral. And yet, says Bill, there is “among many Christians the dangerous temptation to sit this one out.”

Admitting to his failed relationship with Christ, Bill realized that, “while for many years I had accepted Christian doctrine intellectually, I had not fully comprehended it in my heart.” This is when “I felt the Lord drawing me irresistibly closer to him. I put aside many things in my busy schedule, left behind the research projects that could have led to academic promotion, and started spending time daily studying the Bible with the purpose of getting to know the Lord. Reading the New Testament,” says Bill, “left me hungry for more, so I read the Old Testament, completing all of the Bible in four months.”

That faded past of spiritual neglect has not slowed Bill’s pace, as he now exerts godly influence and authority in a field overrun with moral ambiguity, if not spiritual rebellion. Consider the prevailing notion that human embryos and infants—according to the teachings of some mainstream bioethicists—are only clumps of cells, neither fully human nor morally relevant beings. Peter Singer, for example, is the Ira W. DeCamp professor of bioethics at Princeton University’s Center for Human Values and, by many accounts, has developed to a fine art the rhetoric of misguided moral relativism. (One group even heralds his ethical stance, recently awarding him its 2003 World Technology Award in the ethics category.)7 Take, for example, the following passage from his Practical Ethics (1993), cited here from the chapter “Justifying Infanticide” in Writings on an Ethical Life: “The fact that a being is a human being . . . is not relevant to the wrongness of killing it; it is, rather, characteristics like rationality, autonomy, and self-consciousness that make a difference. Infants lack these characteristics. Killing them, therefore, cannot be equated with killing normal human beings.

http://www.tiu.edu/trinitymagazine/fall2003/cheshire.htm