If she really was PVS then she was too oblivious to know the difference... so whats the harm in her living out her life?

If she wasn't...

I'm sure you know that's an inaccurate question, Patients don't starve to death by removal of artificial nutrition and hydration..." -- George Felos, Michael Schiavo's lawyer

Then Judge Greer took the 8-year-late hearsay recovered memories of an ex-husband, who earned a million dollars by waiting 8 years to recover that memory of her wishes, until after the trial where damages for her life support were won.

Balance this against the word of her friends, family and faith and it's quite clear the burden of proof, that she did consent to the removal of the feeding tubes, did not reach a reasonable standard to protect her Civil rights in spite of claims of "due process".

Trapped in the State court system, by the very state trying to impose this unlikely consent, Congress offered a path to an appeal...

How is this Federalist intervention when it in fact provided for additional protections to the inalienable rights of individuals against the State.

The Constitution specifies the limitations of Federal power to protect the States and the Bill of Rights was added to list, but not limit, protections for individuals from both Federal and State government.

There is only a "Right to Privacy" because these individual rights are to be interpreted as liberally as possible and so the 4th amendment's protections of property imply an even higher standard for a self evident "Right to Privacy".

This exposes the 800 lb Gorilla in the room...

"Right to Life" is quite obviously self evident but cannot be conceded by the Left.

So Judge Greer's indulgence of a "Right to Die" Lawyer and a "Right to Die" Doctor's malpractice allowed a Husband to:

Win a medical settlement for her injuries...

Discover memories of her wish to refuse food and water... 8 years after her injury and soon after winning the settlement.

Keep his guardianship in the face of his clear conflict of interest in that he stood to collect the unspent balance of Terri's settlement... that he himself would not spend on her care.

And kill her by Judicial order via starvation and dehydration which is the cruelest of deaths I can imagine.

And people want to say it's about State's Rights?

It's about the 800 lb Gorilla.

Allow me to correct one misstatement of fact: the bill of rights was not added to the constitution to protect individuals from the actions of the state government. Only to protect individuals and the states from the federal government.

To explain federalism for you, federalism is not the protection of individual rights from state action. It is protecting the autonomy of the state government from interference in their soveriegn rights by the federal government.

Terri Schiavo was abused by the Republican Party and elected Republicans who behaved in ways that demonstrate the political extremism that they are really all about.

DeLay issued a statement asserting that "the time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior." He later said in front of television cameras that he wants to "look at an arrogant, out-of-control, unaccountable judiciary that thumbed their nose at Congress and the president."

Delay and his cohorts are the arrogant parties in this matter. The Judiciary is a branch of government specifically designed to handle complex cases of personal and familial disagreements. The Judiciary had proper review and legal basis for every decision that was made.

Threats against specific federal judges are not only a serious crime, but also beneath a Member of Congress. Bald-faced attempts to intimidate judges in America not only threatens our courts, but our fundamental democracy as well.

Make no mistake about it: Tom DeLay, our Majority Leader, is now threatening judges, doctors and Terri Schiavo’s husband.

He is the head-Thug in a Political Party that values thuggery above all else.