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  • Is Prosecution The Solution? (Terri Schiavo Is Being Tortured, Torture Is A Crime, Therefore...)

    03/20/2005 11:01:40 AM PST · by MisterRepublican · 79 replies · 1,495+ views
    National Review Online ^ | March 20, 2005 | Andrew C. McCarthy
    The U.S. Congress and the Florida state legislature are struggling to overcome impasses in their efforts to enact laws that might save Terri Schiavo's life, or at least have her case reviewed by federal courts. But is there a more straightforward solution? Excruciatingly slow starvation and dehydration is clearly a form of torture. Torture is a crime. So why don't the state law-enforcement authorities in Florida prosecute Michael Schiavo and any person who is aiding and abetting him in carrying it out? After the feeding tube that sustains Terri Schiavo was removed on Friday afternoon, National Review's John Miller asked...
  • The Schiavo Case [lead NYT editorial]

    03/19/2005 6:03:33 AM PST · by mathprof · 261 replies · 3,829+ views
    Congressional leaders are playing a dangerous game with their intrusion into the hotly publicized fight in Florida over maintaining life support for a severely brain-damaged woman. With state legislative and court appeals being exhausted, the House and Senate began some grim one-upsmanship to stop the removal of the feeding tube from Terri Schiavo. She is the 41-year-old woman who has been in a persistent vegetative state for the last 15 years, with her parents contesting that sad diagnosis. They also challenged the careful decisions by Florida's trial and appellate courts, based largely on the testimony of her husband that their...