Not much from me in re: Schiavo

I'm not sure about the Federalism argument. I tend to think that if there's someone willing to care for a disabled woman, and that woman's husband wants her dead, someone in government should make it so.

Why does Michael want her dead?

Blah. I'd like to spend the time 'atypin' on this topic, but i'll just parrot someone else instead:

Florida state court Judge George Greer – last heard from when he denied an order of protection to a woman weeks before her husband stabbed her to death – determined that Terri would have wanted to be starved to death based on the testimony of her husband, who was then living with another woman...

Greer has refused to order the most basic medical tests for brain damage before condemning a woman to death...

Greer has cut off the legal rights of Terri's real family and made her husband (now with a different family) her sole guardian, citing as precedent the landmark "Fox v. Henhouse" ruling of 1893...

Given the country's fetishism about court rulings, this may be a rash assumption, but I presume if Greer had ordered that Terri Schiavo be shot at her husband's request – a more humane death, by the way – the whole country would not sit idly by, claiming to be bound by the court's ruling because of the "rule of law" and "federalism."

Well, yeah.