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Here's the next move of the Death Demons: They'll next try to overturn living wills/advance directives that specify a patient should get food and water. They'll say that since the law calls food and water medical treatment, such directives contradict the law.

That is exactly what grabs me most about this, aside from possible future plans to rid society of the "useless eaters" and those with what they consider to have a lesser "quality of life." Now food and water is life by "artificial means" and is also "extreme measure" and "life support."

Now they will be going after the less than "perfect" people in our country.

As to what a judge might or might not be able to say... I think we've learned in this that they can say ANYTHING and their word is law.

This is what scares me the most..... I have two children with a 'cognitive disability' namely autism..... With the way welfare, medicade, and social security are going now I wonder how I will be able to care for them later on? Or will they be eauthanized if I am unable to financially provide for 100% of their care myself? Will that even matter? Or will their quality of life be deemed not worth enduring?

Further, I think the next thing they will try to sell us is lethal injection. "We must never let anything so horrible happen again. We propose a bill that will save the next Terri Schiavo all that ugly long drawn out messy process. Let's do it with the mercy we show our animals." And behold, people will agree, in great relief, missing the point entirely, and we will have lethal injection. MUCH better, they will assure us.

Please pray for our nation, we have aong road ahead of us. But none of this matters right now. With a broken heart I join you in holding Terri & her family up to the Throne of Grace....

Here's a report from this week's "The McLaughlin Group" on PBS.

Pat Buchanan and Tony Blankley believe that Terri should have been spared and given to the parents. Pat, who has been called a "Nazi" by the likes of William F. Buckley, Jr., William J. "Bill" Bennett, and other neocons, said what is being done to Terri is identical to what the Nazis did to the mentally handicapped in the 1940s. And he noted that Nazis who did this were later rounded up, prosecuted, and executed. Blankley, former aide to Newt Gingrich, said that he was outraged at the extermination of Terri. When asked if anything "good" would come out of the tragedy by liberal moderator John McLaughlin, Blankley said, "No."

McLaughlin, a former Catholic priest who once ran for Congress from liberal RI, seemed elated that Terri is dying. He said that her death will cause people to become aware of the need for living wills. Echoing McLaughlin was popular Newsweek columnist Eleanor Clift, who said Terri had no brain and could not feel pain; so the extermination in Pinellas Park, FL, is not like what the Nazis did, she admonished Pat.

Liberal Clift was also critical of GWB for signing the failed Terri's Law last Sunday night. She said that GWB was trying to hold on to the GOP "religious right" base. But she said his signing the bill has caused many "libertarian" Republicans, who favor killing Terri, to become disenchanted with the GOP. That, said Clift, is why Bush's poll numbers took a dip last week. No one, other than Buchanan, seemed to think that the dip was a result of right-to-lifers outraged at the failure of either Bush brother to save poor Terri. Buchanan said that GWB has a built-in base like that of Reagan and will never drop below a certain level of support in the mid-40s.

The iconoclastic James Warren of the Chicago Sun-Times felt uncomfortable endorsing extermination but said the affair was "bad" because it would cause some to lose "faith" in "government"!