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...Florida attorney general, he was criticized by some advocates of government intervention in the Terri Schiavo case when he abandoned official attempts to keep Schiavo on life support...
...more trusted than we are [on government spending]. And President Bush has to be held principally responsible for that. You cannot lead with your chin on social issues; they tried that a few years ago and got themselves in trouble," he says, referring to episodes like the Terri Schiavo controversy, when Congress tried to prevent a brain-dead woman in Florida from being taken off life support...
...lack of imminent death fueled much of the debate in the 2005 case of Terri Schiavo, a Florida woman in a vegetative state whose feeding tube was removed - causing eventual death - after a protracted legal and political battle. Schiavo's husband Michael said Terri would not have wanted to be kept alive, while her parents had argued her mental capacity could have improved with therapy. Acorss the Atlantic, Eluana Englaro, an Italian woman in a similar non-responsive state, died in February 2009 under circumstances that mirrored the Schiavo case. While "right-to-die" cases are different than "assisted suicide...
Pope John Paul II was too ill to intervene in the case of Terri Schiavo, the comatose Florida woman who ended up at the center of a very public tussle between Christians and right-to-die activists. Those who wanted Schiavo to stay on life support would later point to the fact that the pontiff and Schiavo died within two days of each other in the spring of 2005 as a sign from above that treatment and sustenance should never be interrupted. No doubt activists on both sides of the issue will find moving symbolism in Monday evening's death...
...Saturday to see his daughter for themselves following news reports that she was in rather robust physical shape. "Come to Udine to take full account, in person and in private, of my daughter's real condition." It was a final reminder of at least one difference from the Schiavo case: no pictures of Englaro taken after her car accident 17 years ago had ever been circulated, forever preserving for the public the image of a vibrant young woman in the prime of her life...