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...Terri Schiavo's case drew mail both heartfelt and reasoned, as readers grappled with the question of what constitutes human life and weighed the roles of U.S. courts, Congress and the presidency...
...Republican and usually a staunch supporter of George W. Bush. But I was aghast at the flagrant political maneuvering over the fate of Terri Schiavo [April 4]. Shame on Bush, Representative Tom DeLay and all those others who wasted their time and our money on this right-to-life charade. Those same politicians are too cowardly to attack at the federal level the real right-to-life issues?abortion and the death penalty. I pray for Schiavo's parents and husband. We all have a right to a dignified death without government meddling. Bernard Joseph Wilson Jr. Lincoln, Nebraska...
...Schiavo, free of interference, has now peacefully passed through a natural stage of life. Life is precious because it is finite. Alice Hooper Rochester, New York...
...death and resurrection of Christ were meant to show us that death has no power, that the soul lives eternally while the body serves only as a container. Removing Schiavo's feeding tube was not cruel or disrespectful of life. On the contrary, the real cruelty was keeping her shell alive and not allowing her to be at peace with God. It is agonizing to have to let go of a loved one, but as God showed us through the sacrifice of his son, it is the greatest love of all to do so. Sandy Britt Cumberland Furnace, Tennessee...
Klein may be right that the exploitation of congressional rules is strangling democracy. But pointing a finger at the Democratic Party rather than Congress as a whole is disingenuous. Led by Republicans, Congress meddled in the Schiavo case, using legal process and technicalities to counter the courts' decisions. Klein may not like the outcome of that case, but that is democracy...