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U.S. oversteps in Schiavo case By Merlene Davis HERALD-LEADER COLUMNIST Just let me die. If for any reason I cannot eat, drink, speak or go to the bathroom on my own for 15 years, please have compassion and let me die. If my sister and brother fight my husband's attempts to remove my feeding tubes, just know that my siblings are sick with grief and are not thinking straight. Tell them to let me go. The Terri Schiavo case,-involving a 41-year-old woman in Florida whose heart stopped beating briefly in 1990, leaving her brain damaged, has gotten this country's priorities...

Day 5 going into Day 6 of no food or water for Terri. Affidavit of William Polk Cheshire, Jr., M.D., M.A., F.A.A.N., who Examined Terri Schiavo on 3/23/05: http://www.nationalreview.com/pdf/Affidavit.pdf Florida DCF files petition for intervention: http://www.nationalreview.com/pdf/Petition%20for%20Intervention%20in%20Schiavo%20Case.pdf

I'VE HEARD the clamor as to why Terri Schiavo must die. No one, it is said, would want to live like her. Her parents, Robert and Mary Schindler, are religious fanatics. Many of her so-called supporters are "pro-life" zealots. Evil GOP geniuses passed a special law to help her live. And so, she must die. I've followed this poignant case for two years. Also, my husband served at one time as an unpaid informal adviser to the Schindlers. I've heard the arguments, and they often start with: No one would want to live like that. After all, this case is...

Why Jeb Bush has the power to act now -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: March 24, 2005 9:00 a.m. Eastern At this moment, former Reagan administration official and Republican presidential candidate Alan Keyes is in Florida's capital trying to persuade Gov. Jeb Bush to intervene to save Terri Schiavo's life. In this in-depth essay, Keyes explains why "Terri Schiavo's survival depends on Gov. Bush's faithful execution of [his] responsibility, and the survival of American self-government on the willingness of all those in a like position to faithfully execute the duties of their high office." © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com Despite action by the Congress to...