Could she possibly mean that Terri, a woman, was relegated to afterthought? Nope.
May I remind you what else was happening on the very day in 2003 when Congress passed the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban. In Florida, the Legislature passed a law that gave politicians the power to override Terri Schiavo's wishes and have her feeding tube reinserted.
Up and down the East Coast, under two Bush administrations -- George and Jeb -- politicians were playing doctor and God and patient, trumping both medical opinion and individual rights.
Opinion: To court, women are an afterthought
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Washington, DC -- Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro- Choice America, issued the following statement in response to today's Supreme Court decision in the Federal Abortion Ban cases.
"Today's decision shows Bush's appointees have moved the Court in a direction that could further undermine Roe v. Wade and protections for women's health. The door is now open for politicians like George W. Bush to interfere even more in our personal, private medical decisions. The Court has given anti-choice state lawmakers the green light to open the flood gates and launch additional attacks on safe, legal abortion, without any regard for women's health.
"The bottom line is clear: elections matter. An anti- choice Congress and an anti-choice president pushed this ban all the way to the Supreme Court. In fact, the same politicians behind this abortion ban also block stem-cell research and interfered in the Terri Schiavo case. We need to elect more pro-choice members of Congress and a president who will stand up for-not attack-our fundamental values of freedom and privacy.
Supreme Court Decision Marks Setback for Women's Health and Privacy
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All the famous defenders of "women" treated Terri like scum. They saw her as the Taney court saw Dred Scott -- mere chattel with no rights. The irony that they were giving a HUSBAND total patriarchal rights of life or death over his wife did not enter their brainless heads.