From a global, biological perspective this in-fighting over alleged medical and religious ethics is in fact nothing less than an all out affront to environmental sustainability.

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"I was appalled, " says Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's ethics and religious liberty commission.

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But Kenneth W Goodman, an ethics professor at the University of Miami, says religious conservatives are pushing laws that would make it difficult to withdraw care even when a patient's wishes are clear.

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