A quick rundown of some of the news in the Terri Schiavo case. (Which is the correct spelling? I see people spelling her first name both ways.) David Limbaugh points out some resources and information that FindLaw has aggregated here. The CSMonitor, a news source I picked up at Nan's advice, has an article on the case here. Predictably, they are not too pleased with the Congress and the president right now. They do ask an interesting question, how would I feel about this if Congress were interfering with the State government on the other side of this mess? I would probably be pretty upset. So perhaps the federal intervention is not the best thing for us to have happening in the long run, but it is nice to see the federal government doing the right thing for once, even if I am unsure of their ends. This is one of the fairest articles from the BBC that I have seen since I started paying attention. Usually the BBC comes down fairly strong in its portrayal of this as a "Right to Die" case. Michelle Malkin weights in here. She has a quote from a Wall Street Journal article, I kind of wish I had a Wall Street Journal login to access the original. She also links to "Terri: A Nurse's Perspective." I should ask Mollie about that, but I most likely will not. It does not stand to reason that starving to death would be a "painless" way to die. Going without food for even a few days can be painful, I know that from my one insane weight cut in high school. I am sure that any of the children you see in the advertisements for various charities with their stomachs bloated from hunger would differ as well.
