Very shaky ground, as this act of Congress essentially throws out several hundered years of laws regarding the relationship between a husband a wife.
A husband and wife? This is 200 years of tradition, where a purported husband has a common law wife for 10 years, as well as 2 children by the common law wife, and yet is still recognized as the husband for purposes of making life and death decisions about his wife? We don't recognize polygamy in this country. And the question traditionalists should ask, like me, is how this purported husband was able to remain as the guardian in this case. Can anyone explain that? Very bizarre. So, don't tell us about the husband-wife relationship when Michael Schiavo moved on with another woman without the benefit of a divorce.
Of course. Everyone knows that spouses in this country have been always had the right to starve one another to death ...