Yesterday it was a story about a Swiss referendum about giving animals legal representation. Today, at the Huffington Post, there's a call by someone described as a "bioethicist and medical historian,"to allow parents to decide that the deaths of their ill children be hastened and assisted by physicians. That the children might need legal representation is said to be an "unlikely event."

Rev. Joseph A. Komonchak, professor emeritus of the School of Theology and Religious Studies at the Catholic University of America, is a retired priest of the Archdiocese of New York.

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