As a "Terri Schiavo person," I would say that removing the feeding tube is murder, just as starving/dehydrating to death anyone else would be murder. For Thompson to equate a feeding tube with life support is another red flag that he is either ignorant or knowingly on the wrong side.
On the question of federal involvement in the case, protecting life is one special situation in which the federal government must intervene if the local process fails. When a governor allows his police power to carry out a judicially-mandated murder, the only legal recourse is the feds.
Should helmet and seat belt laws be federalized? I mean, why not, the FDA protects terminally ill patients from ingesting medications that haven't met a rigorous testing regimen. Individual and family issues are much too important to be made by those individuals or families that are making them, right?
Post #148 needs to be reviewed on every page of this thread. Therein is a suggestion re the endless abortion issue, which could only be improved by telling freepers how to herd cats. Just think of the cost to FR for the bandwidth gobbled up by endless one-note posters.