Ah, those lovable liberals and their nuanced arguments.   They scoff at conservatives who embrace both the death penalty while being fervently anti-abortion.   They wonder how someone could claim to have respect for human life yet put a person to death for a heinous crime.   They don't see the distinction between killing an otherwise viable baby who has done no harm to anyone and taking the life of someone who has purposely taken that of another.   Along these lines, Human Rights Watch (HRW) wants you to know that lethal injection may cause excruciating pain.   The organization is officially in favor of legalized abortion even in the face of medical evidence that fetuses are "fully capable of experiencing pain" at 20 weeks.   HRW states that it is wrong to inject a carefully crafted stew of lethal chemicals intended to render a murderer unconscious before taking his life but it is perfectly alright to kill a baby without any anesthesia and it is fine to permit assisted suicide, or as in the case of Terri Schiavo, allow "death with dignity" to occur "naturally."   Don't forget that HRW board member Michael Farrell is set to profit from Michael Schiavo's story.

These are difficult issues.   Each of us needs to make up our own minds how we feel about the death penalty, abortion, and assisted suicide.   Regardless of my personal opinions about these issues, I find it deeply disturbing that an entire organization dedicated to human dignity and rights would be filled with such complete and total hypocrisy.