Systematic moral failure.
This whole thing hinges on that judge. All the other judges decisions flowed from his.....the despicable Felos could never have gotten away with this without the judge, the very suspect Schiavo could not have dispensed with his wife without the judge. If the judge's decisions were merely a matter of conscience, however distorted, I'd be really really surprised.
Justice is supposed to be blind not the judges.
Unfortunately, every state in the Union has laws on the books to allow euthanasia. Terri has simply awoken us to this fact, and is a call to arms to get the laws changed to make euthanasia illegal.
Terri is not America's tipping point. Roe v Wade was America's tipping point. Terri's killing, and others like her, are along the down slope.
Why are so many so exercised about the Terri Schiavo case?
I think I can nail down with some precision at least a partial answer. We are exercised for this reason: the Terri case demonstrates beyond all doubt that the range of human beings protected by law in this country has narrowed once again; and what is to stop it from narrowing still further? My friend Bill Luse puts the matter very simply and elegantly: “A permanent vegetative state is not a terminal disease. It does not threaten one with death. It is simply a condition of her life, the life she happens to be living, and which some think she should not.”
We concede that Terri's hopes for recovery lie in miracles only. We concede that the law has been (as far as we can tell) properly followed, the appeals properly adjudicated, that, in short, the law gives to Michael Schiavo, and the those operating as his agents, final authority over Terri's life.
We concede these things but still say: it is an unspeakable injustice. For what, in the end, have we thereby conceded? Only that some conditions are not curable; and that the law can be used to perpetrate wickedness, such as the murder of the innocent. Who will deny these things? The sudden veneration for the law that has sprung up among Liberals is a somewhat perplexing thing. Even the most sullen reactionary will not deny that there is truth in Saint Augustine's dictim that an unjust law is no law at all. That a thing is legal does not mean that it is right. Not long ago the television was full of images of various local magistrates defying duly enacted law to “marry” homosexuals, and not a word of protest from the legalists of the Left. Five years ago, also in Florida (as John Fund points out), the Left was happy to endorse the Federal Administration ignoring court orders to send a boy back to Castro's little prison state, and, again, not a word of protest from the legalists of the Left. Like I said, perplexing.
But not so perplexing when one realizes that these cases, like the Schiavo case, have been so vexing precisely because they go to the heart of the old tremendous questions: who we are as a nation, our character and destiny as a people organized for action in history.