So what is needed is another case to come along that will catch the public eye, and have more substance the executive can use to act?
The courts have been in need of a showdown for some time, yet it has taken a while for a case like this to develop. Perhaps, if efforts to save this woman are not succesful, they will be so emboldened as to keep at it until they slip up and provide the executive with a slam dunk, but it may yet be a while. I am not sure but what it should be fought now.
The Schindlers have been trying to get media attention -- either right or left -- for years now. There have been few takers, Barbara Simpson of WorldNetDaily being one of them.
The only reason why Terri Schiavo is a household word now is because Jeb Bush went out on a limb for her the last time she was threatened with starvation. Even then, the MSM didn't climb aboard until it had the fishy-looking memo that supposedly caused the Senate vote for a Federal case. Of course, they immediately cast the situation as a "right to die" case, making those who wanted to save her life the enemy.