[LauraleeBraswell]

My local Long Island paper was surprisingly against starving Terri. Surprisingly because they are usually left wing. I think it had something to do with the fact that their opinion writer has a severely disabled daughter. And while he is usually left wing he wrote a beautiful piece about how is daughter may not be able to walk or talk but that she can smile. They put it on the front page. This issue is resonating with many people. And I think the Democratic party has really dug their grave with their silent approval of this travesty.

[concerned about politics]

And I think the Democratic party has really dug their grave with their silent approval of this travesty.

Motives will resonate.
What was the Democrats motive? Pro-death; for fear it would affect their abortion and euthanasia agenda.
What was the Republican motive? Pro- life; to save the life of an innocent disabled woman.

Choose thou.

[Monterrosa-24]

"...Surprisingly because they are usually left wing..."

I've noticed too that this case is not breaking along liberal-conservative lines with the high percentages of other issues. Just look at how many Freepers were pro-Michael all the way.

I think the sentiment of Dylan Thomas' poem DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT speaks to many people and Thomas writes of true love rather than a "duty to die". It is our responsibility to fight for that last breath even though the hereafter is beautiful.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

My local Long Island paper was surprisingly against starving Terri. Surprisingly because they are usually left wing. I think it had something to do with the fact that their opinion writer has a severely disabled daughter. And while he is usually left wing he wrote a beautiful piece about how is daughter may not be able to walk or talk but that she can smile. They put it on the front page. This issue is resonating with many people. And I think the Democratic party has really dug their grave with their silent approval of this travesty.

While finding excuses to not confront the Swamp Thugs, slapping Sandy Burgler on the wrist, granting Ted Kennedy a big fat prize of Federal Education money, letting the Mexicans run our southern border, adding big prescription benefits to the AARP, passing out mood control drugs for school children, pissing away money for AIDS in Africa -- you might find the Republican Party more quickly digging an even deeper grave for themselves.

[jazzlite]

"This issue is resonating with many people. And I think the Democratic party has really dug their grave with their silent approval of this travesty."

I believe you are correct...

[libstripper]

As a lawyer there are two things that have totally horrified me about this case, and they're entirely valid whether someone's religous or not:

1) Terri was judicially murdered without ever evidencing any serious, written intention that it be done. This is totally at variance with the way the law requires people to act regarding less serious maters, like selling real property and bequeathing their property, where written contracts and written wills are required. The Federal courts could and should have said due process requires a similarly serious consent before a helpless woman could be deemed to have authorized her own judiciao killing by dehydration and starvation.

2) As detailed at other points in this thread, the multiple conflicts of interest of Schiavo, Felos, and Greer mandated that Greer recuse himslef and Schiavo be removed as Terri's guardian. That neither removal occurred meant that Terri was judicially murdered.

[rampage8]

"My local Long Island paper was surprisingly against starving Terri"

Was that Newsday? My mom gets it daily, and I am amazed at how much misinformation she has. She didn't even know MS had a fiancee and kids. It'd be nice if Newsday came down on the right side of this, albeit a bit late.