Robert P. George on True North Radio Today

Today, Monday, March 28th True North Radio will feature one of the most distinguished guests with whom it has been our privilege to speak.

I’ll be discussing the Terri Schiavo case and the broader issue of assisted suicide with Robert P. George, a distinguished member of the President’s Council on Bioethics.

Professor George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. Among his many books are Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality (1993), In Defense of Natural Law (1999), and, most recently The Clash of Orthodoxies (ISI Books, 2002).

A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Swarthmore and a graduate of Harvard Law School, Professor George also earned a doctorate in philosophy of law from Oxford University. From 1993-98, he served as a Presidential appointee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. He is also a former Judicial Fellow at the Supreme Court of the United States, where he received the 1990 Justice Tom C. Clark Award. He is the recipient of a Silver Gavel Award of the American Bar Association, the Paul Bator Award of the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy, as well as several honorary doctorates. Professor George is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and serves as Of Counsel to the law firm of Robinson & McElwee.

Don't miss the March 21st article at National Review Online interview with Professor George.

You can hear Professor George tomorrow, on TRUE NORTH, from 11:05 a.m. until noon, on WDEV 550 AM/96.1 FM (on 96.5 FM in Barre), or on WSYB 1380 in Rutland.

As the Vermont legislature moves rapidly towards single-payer ("universal") health care, among the many questions we need to ask the members are these:

What would Terri Schiavo's fate be, if her fate were in the hands of neither her parents nor her husband, but a committee of Vermont bureaucrats concerned about costs?

What's the dollar amount at which "universal" health care advocates would stop funding Terri's care and end her life? And if they can't name a dollar amount, then what are the factors they intend to use, when they ration our health care?