Soccer Dad

After 20 years

This week the Florida Supreme Court threw out the law designed to protect Terry Schiavo. I have mixed feelings. I don't think that laws should be written for a single case. On the other hand I find her husband's actions unconscionable and see no reason she should be euthanised. Here's an interview with Wesley J. Smith, who has written extensively on her case for the Weekly Standard, that appeared on Newsmax.com. Now as Carnival contributor SmarterCop noted, another woman woke after twenty years. I don't know that the cases are necessarily comparable. And even Sara Scantlin's family acknowledges that she will never fully recover. Because there's no indication of the relative seriousness of brain damage in each case there's no way of knowing if Terry Schiavo is more or less likely to show the same kind of dramatic reversal. Still doesn't a miracle in one case suggest that it could happen in another? Isn't it wrong to forestall that possibility by starving Terry Schiavo?