Conservatives make mockery of justice in the Terri Schiavo tragedy

[DetroitDem]

http://www.detnews.com/2005/metro/0503/22/B01-124741.htm

To be blunt about it, I don't care whether Terri Schiavo lives or dies.

More to the point, the ultimate decisions that need to be made about her tragic life are none of my business.

For 15 years, the people who need to make a very tough call about her very delicate condition have battled it out in the courts. Her parents and sister are her staunch advocates. Her husband, who is convinced by substantial medical evidence that she's in a persistent vegetative state, sought to remove the feeding tube that keeps her alive.

Last week, he succeeded.

Since 1993, the Florida courts have, chronically and persistently, sided with husband Michael Schiavo and, more importantly, agreed with the evidence that supported his decision. Their actions haven't been capricious: Terri Schiavo's case has received so much oversight that Rutgers Law Professor Norman Cantor told USA TODAY she'd received "more due process than any medical patient in history." On three separate occasions, the U.S. Supreme Court has declined to intervene in the case.

[Dez]

1. They don't like the verdict

so they go to Congress to change it. How very selfish they are to keep her in that state of being.

[Technowitch]

3. Exactly. Their strategy: "Infinite Do-Overs"

Keep throwing those dice over and over and over and over, trying for a 13.

I wish our 2000 Presidential Election had received this much actual judicial scrutiny!

[meegbear]

2. Good article ...

and :party:WELCOME TO DU!:party:

[DetroitDem]

4. just sick

It's really sickening the length that these people will go to keep this woman "alive" just so they pander to their right wing base