[billbears]

About Terri - the bottom line is that a non-terminally ill severely disabled woman was killed by court order. Terri was not comatose and could feel pain (she got morphine suppositories while she was being dehydrated to death). Michael's conflict of interest as her guardian is obvious to all except the ill-informed and those who just don't give a damn about disabled and old people being euthanized. Bottom line for Michael -- he has never been put under oath about what happened to Terri in the first place. He was repeatedly on Larry King show telling different stories every time he was on. He even declared that he had no idea what Terri would have wanted, but that "this is what we want." That is, he and his girlfriend wanted to be married by a priest in the Catholic church (ahh, the irony). Michael had to be a widower and not divorced for that to happen.

Your bias when discussing the two main characters in this situation is so subtle...

This is the last time that I state this. I do not care 'about' the character of Michael Schiavo nor do I care 'about' the position or situation of Terri Schiavo. I simply do not care. I don't want to hear about conspiracies, doctor's opinions, police reports, interviews, 'supposed' (and ridiculous I might add) 14th Amendment concerns, or anything else. Why is that so hard to understand? The issue of the morality of this case, at least according to the Constitution, should be discussed in one place alone, the legislatures of the separate and sovereign states

The only concern I have in this is the constitutionality of addressing a completely internal state affair within the federal realm. By the intent of the Framers and by everything I have read from them discussing the separation of the general government from the state governments, in no way should this have been addressed by the federal system nor should Congress have been involved. And considering how fast even the most ardent 'conservatives' in Congress dropped this issue, even those buffoons can see they overstepped their bounds.

[Ronaldus Magnus]

The only concern I have in this is the constitutionality of addressing a completely internal state affair within the federal realm

I am sorry to have be the one to tell you, but your side lost the war back in 1865. The federal government has been the final authority for the proctection of all civil rights since the ratification of the fourteenth amendement.