Terri Schiavo: Please explain something to me...

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Originally Posted by Mad4stevie

As a matter of fact, MSNBC is reporting that the parent's lawyers will file yet another appeal to the US Supreme Court. Good lord.

Who will flatly reject it if history teaches us anything.

Personally, I would have thought the Court would have liked to have opined on the case the first time it was appealed. I think this is diff, than the Cruz decision in that there was a party in this case that was willing to take of Mrs. Schiavo. The question then squarely before the Court would have been "Whether the Consituitional right to die gives a party, here the parents, interested in administering care a superior right over the state sanctioned right of guardianship" or something like that. In other words, does Cruz apply in this situation. It would have been interesting to read the 5-4 decision.