It would be only technically accurate to say that Terri Schiavo’s hollow life was perpetuated by crass political opportunism. It was a life only if you define “persistent vegetative state” as living. Terri had suffered a permanent, irreversible loss of all cognitive function long before the governor of Florida led an extraordinary, utterly unconstitutional attempt to block removal of her feeding tube. It was Gov. Jeb Bush who turned the vacant shell that had been Terri Schiavo into a political icon,...
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