[doc30]

You are quite right. Most people I know who were strongly Republican were left with a bitter taste in their mouths when the Republicans tried to step in and intervene with Schaivo. They took it very personally and interpreted the actions of the government to be a threat to their own personal and family decisions. Some elementds of the Republican party championed it as a right to life case and were throwing everything they had at it. All it did was alientate Republicans and conservatives who either did not see it as a good political decision or who thought it was government making itself bigger and more intrusive. They didn't look at it as helping one woman, but setting the precident for interfering in everyones' lives.

[floriduh voter]

How's it feel to be on the same side as the ACLU who helped Schiavo finish killing his wife? The government interfered by making the first order to kill Terri. The interference was the murder, not the cancellation of same which led to Terri's torture and murder. I thought the U.S. didn't condone torture. Oops, that's only applicable for terrorists, not for innocent Americans.

[Dante3]

There were so many issues involved here that disturbed and caused me to support an attempt to save Terri's life:
*Terri never had a living will.
*She was killed in a most barbaric way that horrified me.
*The estranged husband Michael Schiavo should never have been allowed to be her guardian just as in the case of Sunny, Klaus was prohibited from being the guardian. Michael by his own words and deeds revealed himself as a liar and a sadist.
*Why not release the information about Terri's condition and obtain another opinion?
*Why excuse Michael and the elusive Jodi from having to give dispositions and otherwise get a pass from what the laws requires?
Judge Greer's incompetence and prejudice.
The list goes on.

I recommend that you read what Martin Katz wrote in The American Thinker, March 29, 2005. That is how many saw this case.