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I saw the PBS program "The McLaughlin Group" this week. Conservative host John McLaughlin, a former priest who ran for the U.S. Senate from RI in 1970, declared Governor Jeb Bush as the politician of 2003 who experienced "the fairest rap" from his critics. His first wife was the Reagan Labor Secretary Ann D. McLaughlin.

McLaughlin was referring to Terri's fight and Jeb Bush's attempt to prevent her imminent death from starvation and dehydration. McLaughlin said that Bush critics accuse him of pandering to the "religious right" by seeking passage of Terri's law despite "over a dozen" FL judges who ruled that Terri was brain-damaged, could not be rehabiliated, and should be "allowed to die."

McLaughlin proved his own ignorance of this case. He sees it as simply letting a brain-dead person die. He probably has no knowledge of the particulars of the case but sided firmly with Greer, Baird, Demers, Felos, Schiavo, etc, without using any of their names. When it comes to "compassion" this former priest proved himself sorely lacking on his own TV program.