About as "No Spin" as Fox News

For those of you who have followed the case of Terri Schiavo, the Florida woman whose husband and parents have fought a prolonged legal battle over removing Terri's feeding tube, the Judge in the case ordered that her feeding tube be removed in three weeks. While this has been a horrible, tragic story, some people seem to have lost track over the idea that it is a legal battle, not a referendum on euthanasia or a battle of morals. It is a legal battle with a legal question. The L.A. Times reported that Cardinal Renato Martino, the head of the Pontifical Council on Justice and Peace said that bringing about Schiavo's death would be a "grave step" toward legalizing euthanasia in the United States. This case is about who has final say over an incapacitated woman, or possibly who is representing her wishes correctly since she did not have a living will. This case has nothing to do with euthanasia. The Vatican is either trying to spin this into a moral issue rather than a legal issue or needs to re-examine how the approach controversies such as this.