"It's a very tragic case,'' said attorney Stephen Goethel of Ann Arbor, who represents the Yannellas. "She is a kid who just refuses to die. The parents are told she is going to die, there is no hope, and she hasn't died.''
Baby girl's parents fight U-M decision to end treatments
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I knew Jim Webb up close in the mid-eighties and tried to convince those in power that he was a phony and closet lib way back then, but it was a cry in the wilderness. He got promoted to Secretary of the Navy afterwards, convincing everyone he was a conservative war hero. His chosen side on matters like Terri could have been predicted twenty years ago.
It is one more example of how Terri's Legacy has brought clarity as a watershed.
Jim Webb has been a classic pretender all along, like Murtha.
Would any of us have thought on that dark day that Terri would leave such a powerful legacy to cut the fog of ambiguity as to who was truly conservative and who was actually on the other side? We have seen the same revelations with posts on our own Terri threads
In the Virginia Senate race this fall, we have Sen. George Allen who, 97 percent of the time, supports Bush proposals while our other Virginia senator, John Warner, at times breaks with the president. For example, Warner has supported raising the minimum wage, supported federal funding for stem cell research and opposed Congress' intervening into the right-to die case involving the brain-damaged woman in Florida, Terry Schiavo. Allen echoed Bush on all these issues.
Jim Webb agrees with Warner on all the positions listed above and is not a captive of special-interest groups, as is Allen.
Webb will be a thinking senator who will do what he thinks is best for the nation, not blindly support any president.
Webb's independence is similar to Sen. Warner's
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