If it comes to be that the doctors are all over the map, with no real consensus out there, then I think the President is quite right that there must be a presumption in favor of life. If it is not now clear that she will never return, then she should be maintained until such time as it is clear, and consensus exists. Unfortunately, the law as it now stands interferes with that end, and prevents that end from coming to pass. The law is broken, and it must be fixed, but that cannot be done by judges. I cannot be so cavalier about the law as to argue that judges who ignore it in favor of their own personal presumptions are just fine, so long as their presumptions coincide with mine. That way lies madness.
If there is someone home there inside what's left of her body, and you want to know the truth about who killed that someone, the truth is that we all did. All of us. You, me, everyone. We killed her by failing to elect legislators with the moral fortitude to repair the law in a timely fashion, in such a way as to prevent this death. We killed her by not electing Congressmen with the fortitude to pass a bill that actually does something, rather than Congressmen who simply pose for the cameras and pass a do-nothing bill that punts off to the courts, where they knew her case would founder on the law as it currently exists. If Terri Schiavo is alive and aware, we all have blood on our hands, and it will take much work to remove that stain. If it can be removed at all.
I know the truth when I see it general.
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