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LifeNews.com Editor's Note: Wesley J. Smith is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, and an attorney for the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide. He is also a special consultant to the Center for Bioethics and Culture. The "Rule of Terri's Case" has struck again. The term was coined by Pat Anderson, attorney for Terri Schiavo's parents Bob and Mary Schindler, who complained: "If following a legal procedure will likely result in Terri dying, it will be adhered to. But if a procedure could make that outcome more difficult to attain, it will not be followed." Anderson's...

The countdown began at two o'clock on Wednesday, October 15th. That was when Florida Judge George W. Greer's cease-feeding order went into effect. Terri Schiavo's feeding tube was removed and most observers give her 10 to 14 days tops. She will shortly begin to die of starvation and dehydration. Schiavo, for the uninitiated, suffered brain damage in 1990. Her husband Michael convinced a jury to award $1.3 million in 1993, $750,000 of which was earmarked for her rehabilitation. Instead, he stuck her in a nursing home, refused to pay for treatment, put her on the do not resuscitate list, went...