Terri was no more being 'forced' to live than a woman walking around with a heart pacer, or a woman who needs a daily insulin shot and weekly dialysis treatments to keep the Grim Reaper at bay. According to the left's rationale food and water through a tube amounts to "extraordinary means of life support". Well it's a hell of a lot less technical and less "extraordinary" than living with a partially man-made heart.
However, the worst thing about this whole case is the fact that the parents have been literally begging Terri's husband and the Courts to grant them custody so they can take her home and care for her. They are completely willing and even eager to shoulder the burdon of their paralyzed dauther's condition all by themselves. And neither the 'husband' nor the Courts will let this happen. To to contrary, they say death for Terri is better. You just cannot call this justice from any angle you view it from. It's perverted, cruel and evil.
The Terri Schiavo case sends a definitive message to every American citizen, a message that says once we become disabled and unable to speak or fight for ourselves, do to age, infirmity, or anything else, the system can take us out like last week's garbage, and nobody can do a thing about it. Not a Governor, a Sentate or even a President. This case has defined the state of our nation.
The President and Congress, both houses, the House and the Senate, are powerless because they choose not to stand for what they claim to believe in, just as the Governor is powerless. The legal system holds all the power because the other two branches have ceded the power to them. The blind judge says black is white, the other two branches say, so be it.
The Supreme Court is always right. Oh, for sure. Ask perhaps Dred Scott or the numerous separate but equal cases.
We have a perfectly readable, understandable, Constitution. Now we need to appoint judges who can read and understand. We need an executive and legislative branch who can read and understand. We need a nation, determined to be "One Nation, Under God, with liberty and justice for all" A nation dedicated to LIFE, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.
What we don't need is a system that somehow finds a complete rejection of the recognition of God in the phrase, "Congress shall make no laws regarding the establishment of religion," yet cannot find a right to be armed in the phrase, "the Right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." We do not need a nation that finds a right of a school to send a minor child for an abortion and hides the event from the parent, yet has zero tolerance for drugs, such as an asprin, or weapons, such as a nail file.
We need to get BACK to BASIC.