Terri Schiavo Federal Law Bipartisan, Not “Republican”
February 15, 2012 (First Things) – Revisionist history strikes a beat; Into your heart it will seep: Latest example, a materially false opinion piece in the Atlanta Journal Constitution by Jay Bookman. First, Bookman says he was appalled by “political overreaching,” the second of which involved Terri Schiavo. From “Rick Santorum and the Terri Schiavo Disaster:” “The second, and far more egregious, was the Terri Schiavo affair, in which Congress attempted to directly intervene in a family dispute in Florida involving a clearly brain-dead woman.”
Bookman is displaying his own ignorance. Schaivo was no more “brain dead” than Bookman is. Brain dead is “dead.”
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