I think there needs to be plenty of open discussion on the comparison to Dred Scott, the issue of federal jurisdiction, what "due process" means in a civil case, inalienable rights and the 14th amendment, etc.
...and I agree the 'discussion' does not need to involve Nazi Germany. We have plenty in our own history to reflect upon.
However, as I indicated, I will refuse to get specific as to the Schiavo case. Let passions cool, and we can discuss same in depth.
Our judges have been trained the same way -- stare decisis, process is king. The "due" in due process they thus give nullity. According to the Founders the "due" was that due each man, the primal rights granted by the Creator -- yet the judges have ignored that due.
Amos calls the mindset "cultic" -- a better term than "german", perhsps -- yet the Germans I've met and those of the Reich show a cultural softness to such cultic myopic, straighjacketed philosophy. And so do we Americans! (Although history shows, never as a sustained majority.)
Another analogy -- and a proper one -- is to that which gave Nuremburg its authority. And that which the courts at Nuremburg properly declared to the world and history: That obedience to process is no excuse for murder.