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Congress often engages in controversial legislation, shirking due respect for the fundamental separation of powers. But only rarely do its decisions extend as far beyond their intended boundaries as in the case of Terri Schiavo. The fate of Schiavo, which was meted out following Monday’s post-midnight vote in Congress, should have been left to the legal system, where juries of our peers and judges are charged with upholding the rights of an individual. Instead, one family’s private tragedy turned into a national spectacle and yet another issue off which Congress could not keep...
There is no need to take a stance on whether Michael Schiavo, Terri’s husband, should have chosen to remove the feeding tube that has sustained his 41-year-old wife since she suffered devastating brain damage in 1990 to understand this point. Nor must one even agree with Florida’s (and every other state’s) law that leaves it up to the spouse to make the life-or-death decision for a permanently incapacitated partner who has not left a living will specifying a course of action. The salient point is that states...
...Michael Schiavo has long insisted that what he wants for his wife Terri is a dignified death. But a flurry of legislative maneuvering late last week showed how the predicament of one severely brain-damaged Florida woman--who has been in what doctors call a persistent vegetative state since 1990--is in danger of getting lost in the clash of political agendas. In an effort to head off the scheduled removal of Schiavo's feeding tube, the House of Representatives, led by Republican Tom DeLay, took the extraordinary step on Friday of issuing a subpoena for Schiavo herself, along with...
...protests continued to fill the airwaves and the streets outside Schiavo's Florida hospice, even some conservatives wondered whether the unusual tactics spearheaded by legislators in Washington went too far. In Florida, there were revealing cracks in the state's conservative cohort, as some Republican pols who usually side with Governor Jeb Bush (who backs efforts to keep Schiavo alive) broke ranks. Powerful state senator Dennis Jones helped defeat eleventh-hour attempts in the Florida legislature last week intended to save Schiavo, telling TIME it was "the wrong vote." Some Florida Republicans say they winced when DeLay insisted that keeping...
Doctors described Terri Schiavo, 39, as being in a vegetative state, but she was spared from entering the next world by the intervention of Florida Governor Jeb Bush. Nobody involved in this tragic case should presume the moral high ground. Close family members think if there is life, there is hope. Others, however, see a denial of the right to die with dignity. Bush family members are strong on the right to life. But that does not mean they or the Bush Administration thinks the state should pay for a national health-care program. That is anathema to these "compassionate...