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Written by a deacon. Where were the bishops and priests? Thank heaven the Vatican and Father Pavone and surely others that didn't get into the spotlight and a couple I heard about here were with them and spoke out and called it for what it was.

I have a couple of questions and might as well ask them here as on another thread:

Who had the most influence in getting this story into the national spotlight, and more importantly, who had the most influence in getting that first law passed in Florida that spared her for a little longer and made the most noises in the final losing battle? What other activists were as vociferous as Free Republic? Jesse Jackson arrived several days late and several dollars short, but I do appreciate it that he finally did show up and speak out.

Even Free Republicans (here and out there) couldn't agree in this case.

I have one more question: What if both the parents and Michael had agreed it was appropriate to pull the feeding tube and went to court together to have it done? Would that have made it any less wrong? Would there have been a quieter outcome?

It's the young people that are a worry. All my granddaughter's friends think it was the right thing to do. She is an atheist (claims to be) Democrat (worked for them), but has stood firm that they shouldn't have done this to Terri. I would like to think that it wasn't because she saw how much it upset me. She has a good heart for people and animals.

What if both the parents and Michael had agreed it was appropriate to pull the feeding tube and went to court together to have it done? Would that have made it any less wrong? Would there have been a quieter outcome?

Yes, No, and yes, no one would have ever known but God. Supposedly what you mentioned happens thousands of times a year. The American people have a "morality gap" if Karl Rove et al are right.

Who had the most influence in getting this story into the national spotlight?

I would say Free Republic, who had the full story well before the summer of 2003, when I first read about the case.

And more importantly, who had the most influence in getting that first law passed in Florida that spared her for a little longer

Then Speaker Johnnie Byrd, State Senator Daniel Webster, and Governor Bush, but it was not widely mentioned at the time that Bush had signed the 1999 law making dehydration and starvation an option in cases such as that of Terri

and made the most noises in the final losing battle?

You must mean Randall Terry, but he was really very subdued and did all he could. The deck was stacked against the Schindler from the start because the elites in both parties actually believe in judicial supremacy.

What other activists were as vociferous as Free Republic?

That Empire-Journal in NY that hardly anyone had before Terri's final battle