Husband hits at bid to save coma wife
the lawyer for Michael Schiavo, who insists that his wife never wanted to be kept alive artificially, has accused the Washington politicians of 'acting like the Soviet Politburo'.
'I feel like the government has just trampled all over my personal life,' Schiavo said hours after nutrition to his 41-year-old wife was withdrawn for the third time since he began his fight with her family a decade ago.
'It is incomprehensible that a government can walk all over somebody's private judicial matter because of their own personal feelings. It is just horrible the way the government is acting. This is what Terri wanted. It is her wish.'
... The US Supreme Court has repeatedly refused to become involved in the case, but President George Bush and his brother Jeb, the Governor of Florida, have both spoken strongly in favour of saving Mrs Schiavo's life.
... 'Right now, murder is being committed against a defenceless American citizen,' DeLay said. 'Mrs Schiavo's life is being violently wrenched from her body in an act of medical terrorism. What is happening to her is not compassion, it is homicide.'
Other politicians, though, say that the intervention of Republicans was 'a flagrant abuse of power' and that subpoenas ordering Mr and Schiavo to an inquiry this week were unenforcable.
'Congress is turning the Schiavo family's personal tragedy into national political farce. The process was a perversion of democracy,' said Henry Waxman, a Democrat on the committee that issued the subpoenas.
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