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[quote name="I need clarification"][quote name="Casual observer"]The argument isn't so much over whether she should die or not, that's something absolutely peripherial to the issue that's actually being argued in all those courts is really about who has the right to make the choice to either let her die and the means by which she should, if that was the choice made.[/quote] Wow, thanks! All this time I thought the husband and the parents were arguing over a philosophy, and not the life of their wife/daughter. You cut right through that smokescreen, though. [quote name="Casual observer"]Then here comes all these fuck-wits that want to manipulate the situation to make it emblematic of something -completely- irrelevant to the cases being presented in court. This isn't about whether she should die or not, it's about who has the right to say she should.[/quote] Actually, this case is about positioning and how it affects future elections and (of course) those who will hold power (in the future). It is precisely the same thing as the manufactured Elian Gonzales "controversy," with the exact same players, and with (most likely) the same outcome: those who care the most (Elian's US family, Schiavo's family) will make the most impassioned pleas, but will lose their fight eventually. Those who pretend to care the most (right-wing religious conservatives) will make this a talking point in the next election. The laws most likely will not change (you still can't keep a Cuban kid here if his surviving parent lives in Cuba and wants him back), but the public will have yet one more issue to be (bi-)polarized by.[/quote]