Personally, I am sick and tired of the government using my constitutional rights (which are supposed to put limits on the government) as government justifications for invading every facet of my life!!!
Those people championing this national law will rue the day it happened.
Most will eventually deny they supported. Give it a year.
There will be people hooked up to machines suffering and have no way for the individual they lived their life with to allow them to pass peacefully.
This law will now turn your final days into extended agony where only the state will decide when you die.
Terri has a constitutional right to life, not a constitutional obligation to the state - allowing it the right to preserve her existence to its whim.
Congress is now saying that you have the fundamental right to care no matter how dire the situation, no matter your ability to pay for it.
In other words, we just got an endorsement for universal health coverage from congress.
Question to those who support this law. If Terri Schiavo was a single adult waitress who was orphaned and in this condition, would you be willing to pay millions of dollars to keep her alive?
Wait a minute, the "kill Terri" crowd all talk about how she won't suffer from the starvation, yet she is somehow suffering by having the feeding tube?