And after the backlash to the GOP for overstepping their authority in this case, the RR extremists won't get any more crumbs from the political table for some time. Any capital they had, they blew on this case while making some Christians look like Jerry Springer busybodies and ignoramus's.
Couldn't have said it better.
". . . We, as a society, the government and the people of the United States of America, have not managed, for whatever reasons, to permit a mother, deluded or not, to put water onto the lips of her dying child, brain dead or not. . . .
"We have wounded our national character. By our actions, or inactions, we have placed ourselves one notch less, above the Nazis. . . .
"We, as a people, have so shamed ourselves, that we cannot look Mary Schindler . . . in the eye, and give her one good reason why WE did not allow her to give water to her dying child."