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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...
...Harvard students vowed yesterday not to eat solid foods until brain-damaged 41-year old Terri Schiavo is reconnected to a life-sustaining tube—or until she dies in her Florida hospital...
McShea, in an e-mail message urging others to join the strike, wrote that “we think it is more than coincidental that this horrendous battle over Terri Schiavo’s life is occurring during Holy Week, when we remember the suffering and death of Jesus of Nazareth...
Last Friday, as the House and Senate were working out their differences over legislation to stop the removal of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube, embattled House Majority Leader Tom DeLay discussed the issue at a gathering of the Family Research Council at the Willard Hotel in Washington. In the speech, he drew parallels between Schiavo's situation and his own as he faces a barrage of ethics allegations, and he implicitly asked the conservatives to come to his defense as they have Schiavo's. A recording of the speech was supplied to TIME by Americans United for Separation of Church...
...wrong vote." Some Florida Republicans say they winced when DeLay insisted that keeping Schiavo and patients like her alive was more important than "the sanctity of marriage"--a concept, of course, at the core of the Christian right's agenda on issues like gay marriage. Whatever Terri Schiavo's fate, the continuing debate promises to be anything but dignified. --By Tim Padgett. With reporting by Perry Bacon Jr. and Michael Peltier