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He is risen.

Today is the joyful celebration of the Resurrection for us Catholics and Christians as we celebrate Easter. Three years ago today Easter had not yet come and the mood was tense at Pinellas Park.

Excerpted from The Christian Science Monitor March 23, 2005....

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WASHINGTON – Boiled down to its essence, the ongoing legal dispute over a severely brain-damaged Florida woman might well have been filed in court under the label Theresa Marie Schiavo v. Theresa Marie Schiavo.

Both sides in the life-or-death drama unfolding in a Pinellas Park, Fla., hospice and federal courtrooms are claiming to be acting in what they believe to be Terri Schiavo's best interests.

Yet only one of those parties can be right. The other, while acting with the best intentions, is misrepresenting Ms. Schiavo.

It is this aspect of attempting to know the unknowable - what Schiavo herself would want in this instance - that has perplexed much of the nation in water-cooler debates and kitchen-table discussions.

The debate is more than simply right-to-life versus right-to-die. Legal analysts say Schiavo's struggle is playing out along the same cultural and ideological fault lines that split the nation over abortion, stem-cell research, and evolution....................

Who speaks for Terri Schiavo?

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Oh no! Not Goodenough again...

This is excerpted from Abby Goodenough and Liptak in the NYET three years ago today.

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Judge Greer did not rule on the state's request immediately, but he granted a request from Ms. Schiavo's husband, Michael, to bar the state's Department of Children and Families from taking custody of her, from removing her from the hospice where she has gone six days without her feeding tube and from providing her with nutrition or hydration.

George Felos, the lawyer for Michael Schiavo, who had sought to end life support for his brain-damaged wife, said he had heard "credible" rumors that state officials planned to send doctors to the hospice to give Ms. Schiavo intravenous fluids.

Judge Greer also directed state sheriffs to take whatever actions were necessary to enforce the order, which came toward the end of another breathlessly paced day in the case.....................

Courts Say No; Governor Bush in Schiavo Bid

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Yet only one of those parties can be right. The other, while acting with the best intentions, is misrepresenting Ms. Schiavo.

Actually, ONLY ONE SIDE had good intentions, Mikey's intention was to kill the woman he abandoned for reasons we may never know.