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Submitted by inZane on November 6, 2007
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Medical Treatment
Last weekend, we saw bioethics trumped by biopolitics. After 15 years in a persistent vegetative state, after seven years in court, after motions and more motions, appeals and more appeals, Terri Schiavo's feeding tube was again removed.
A Congress that rushed to intervene cared less about neurology than electability. Doing the right thing mattered less than appeasing the right wing. By early Monday morning, the president had signed an unprecedented law allowing ''any parent of Theresa Marie Schiavo" to sue in federal court to keep her alive.
It's tempting to say that they played politics with this case, but ''play" is far too frivolous a word.
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