There were a lot of allegations thrown around about Michael Schiavo, whether he might have abused her, etc. I can’t know either way whether any of those allegations were true, but apparently they weren’t proven in court, because the courts upheld his guardianship. Michael Schiavo might have been honestly doing what he thought Terri would want, or he may have been hoping to get rid of her to live with his girlfriend and their kids. I can’t know, but apparently a conflict of interest wasn’t proven in court, because the courts upheld his guardianship.

All I think is that if I were in Terri Schiavo’s position, I would want the decision of what to do with me (absent a living will or written instructions) to be in the hands of my legal guardian. Not in the hands of the government. The state and the courts have a rightful place to determine (again, absent written instructions from me) who that guardian should be, and in the Schiavo case, the statute and the courts upheld that Michael still held that position. That’s where it needs to end, not with politicians second-guessing the decisions of the legal guardian or the diagnosis of the doctors.

The courts are the government too you know. And I don’t think anyone who has looked at the evidence could possible conclude “by clear and convincing evidence” that Mrs. Shavio wanted to die. If she did, great. She won.

If she didn’t, then too bad. Mr. remarried to mom of his bastard children while Teri was alive and I spent all the medical malpractice money we won that I promised in court would be used to keep you alive forever honey Shavio won.

But I agree that Congress had no business in that case. That was the State of Florida’s mess, and Congress had no constitutional power, much less political power, to get involved.

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist reflects on his involvement in the Terry Schivavo fiasco and admits that the majority of Americans want the government to butt the heck out of the kind of life and death decisions that were involved in that case. ……

To parapharse Frank Sinatra:

I gamble, I get broke, I wake up.

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