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It's astounding how many people want Terri Schiavo dead and aren't afraid to say so. I got clobbered by readers who reacted to Tuesday's column about how the "culture of death" has placed its compassionate arms around Terri, the brain-damaged Florida woman who is being starved to death. E-mail and phone calls (more than 150 at last count) are running 2-1 against me. "It's nuts, this 'life at all costs' mentality," a caller said. There was general agreement: Terri should die and starvation ain't so bad. "Her parents are being very selfish by keeping her alive. Your reference to her...

For every day Terri Shiavo suffers, liberals continue to deny their role in the conspiracy to commit murder. In an attempt to muddy the water and wash their hands of any responsibility for her death, those who support Terri’s starvation have adopted a new catch phrase: “This is a very difficult and complex matter.” Whether it is Michael Shiavo’s lawyer, Judge Greer, Jeb Bush, the Florida legislature, or everyone in the partisan media, these modern day equivalents of Pontius Pilate have decided that the best way to wash their hands of Terri’s blood is to constantly mumble some generic form...