WASHINGTON – Congress approved emergency legislation early Monday to let Terri Schiavo’s parents ask a federal judge to prolong their daughter’s life, capping days of emotional debate over who should decide life and death.
President Bush waited at the White House to sign the measure permitting a federal review of the case, which could trigger the reinsertion of feeding tubes needed to keep the brain-damaged Florida woman alive.
The House passed the bill on a 203-58 vote after calling lawmakers back for an emergency Sunday session for debate that stretched past midnight.
The Senate approved the bill Sunday by voice vote.
It’s sort of sad to think that we have people sitting around debating this while a woman is starving to death. However, things are looking good and it seems that Schiavo will have her feeding tube replaced shortly. Praise God, and may He continue to help Terri and protect her right to life.
That’s really it for tonight, besides this lucubration: Too bad Lassie didn’t know how to ice skate, because then if she was in Holland on vacation in winter and someone said “Lassie, go skate for help,” she could do it.