"And there are Freepers who insist the wrongs were the Congress getting involved, sheesh"
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Ann Coulter put it in context:
"Also on the pro-killing side are conservatives still pissed off about the Civil Rights Act of 1964 who are desperately hoping to be elected "most consistent constitutionalist" by their local Federalist Society chapters.
You can't grow peanuts on your own land or install a toilet capable of disposing two tissues in one flush because of federal government intervention. But Congress demands a review of the process that goes into a governmental determination to kill an innocent American woman — and that goes too far!
It's not a radical extension of current constitutional doctrines — even the legitimate ones! — for the federal government to assert a constitutional right to life that cannot be denied without due process of law under the Fifth and 14th Amendments. Congress didn't ask for much, just the same due process John Wayne Gacy got.
But people even stupider than lawyers have picked up on the vague rumblings from "most consistent constitutionalist" aspirants and begun to claim that Congress' action is an affront to "limited government."
http://www.anncoulter.org/cgi-local/article.cgi?article=48
Yeah, I read Ann's comments. She gets it so clearly. There was a recent thread making a learned comparison between Terri's plight and that of Dred Scott, and the advent of the fourteenth amendment and subsequent 'subpreme' Court chippings away until the fourteenth is toothless now in the 'inalienable right to LIFE', the DI principle intended to be codified with the 14th Amendment.
And one more thing: I'm sick of fools stating that Terri received due process of law; what Terri received was 'process', but she definitely didn't get what was 'due' based on our/her DI and our/her Constitution. why?... Because the elites effectively dehumanized her from the start, just the way Taney dehumanized Mister Scott, setting the final outcome of his case before any consideration was made and thus actualk due process based on the Constitution and founding Documents carried out.