Politicians wanting her fed 'acting like Soviet Politburo'

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http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1441815,00.html

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Other politicians, though, say that the intervention of Republicans was 'a flagrant abuse of power' and that subpoenas ordering Mr and Schiavo to an inquiry this week were unenforcable.

'Congress is turning the Schiavo family's personal tragedy into national political farce. The process was a perversion of democracy,' said Henry Waxman, a Democrat on the committee that issued the subpoenas.

There are fears, meanwhile, that the case might prove a magnet to more militant campaigners. Greer, who resigned from his church two years ago after criticism from parishioners, travels everywhere with an armed escort after receiving death threats, while police guard the family home of Michael Schiavo.


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