[SendShaqtoIraq]

"will the state now be empowered to veto the decisions that I make about the health of my children, or their education and point to this legislation as a precedent"

Is the other parent of your children disagreeing with your decisions? If not, you have nothing to worry about. That's the only reason this case was in the courts, because the woman's parents disagreed with the "husband's" (and I use that term loosely) decisions. If the parents had agreed with MS, or were already deceased, Terri would have been dead years ago, and the courts would never have been involved.

[CindyDawg]

FM