Terri Schiavo is dead. Nat Hentoff, on of the most independent minded liberals in the business, has this to say in the Village Voice:
For all the world to see, a 41-year-old woman, who has committed no crime, will die of dehydration and starvation in the longest public execution in American history.
Among many other violations of her due process rights, Terri Schiavo has never been allowed by the primary judge in her case—Florida Circuit Judge George Greer, whose conclusions have been robotically upheld by all the courts above him—to have her own lawyer represent her.
I have been much more ambivalent about this case than some of my colleagues. See Art Marmostein's delightful use of a Biblical story to indicate his clarity, in the Aberdeen American News.
But it does seem to me that the deliberate starvation of a living human being is more than adequate proof of an impoverished policy.
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