By popular demand...

Ok, so Terri Schiavo is at the center of the news, and people are stunned that I have yet to weigh in with my opinion regarding everything going on.
Well, first off, you can't swing a vegetable around anymore without someone having an opinion on everything going on there. I don't know that my 2 cents would be needed in the din of other people.
But, I guess I'm almost expected to say something. Ok.
I am behind her husband 100%. He is the one married to her, he would know best what she wanted. There are things you tell the person you love that you could never tell your parents. I think this may be one of them. And parents would be expected to fight their daughter dying even more vehemntly than normal. After all, no parent expects to outlive their children.
They hold out hope that their daughter could recover from PVS (Persistent Vegetative State) and be returned to them. But that, in all probability, gets further away every day.
Also, once they became married, her husband became the final arbiter, really. No matter what the parents feel, it's the husband's decision. Whether she really wanted to be removed from the machines or no, her husband can make that decision. And, if there is no chance of recovery (as the court ordered doctors say) then it's only fair for him to make that decision. Think about it. Would it be easier for him to walk away? The paper reported that there is talk he turned down a million dollars to walk away and leave her to her parents. But he's doing what he thinks is right and what she wanted.
I find it morally reprehensible that the politcians have waded into this. Thinking it will solidify their relationship with evangelicals, they are interefereing not only in one caouple's/family's business, they are stepping on the legal results of the state court. The Republicans campained on a platform of protecting states rights from federal government interference, and yet, here we are. Congress moved faster on this than anything they have ever done on balancing the budget or anything to REALLY benefit us as a country. And don't get me started on how this is a whole 'Right to life' issue now bringing the anti-abortionists into this.
Not to mention, President Bush comes out saying ''It Is Wisest to Always Err on the Side of Life'.
This from the former leader of our great state of Texas, with arguably the highest rate of death penalty cases in the union.
Anyway, I'm tired and need to finish watching NCIS.
Goodl Luck Michael Schiavo. I know you need it.