I think he’s wrong on this. The “End of Life” issue hasn’t even really started here in America. We’ve seen bits and pieces of certain high profile cases, sure…but this stuff happens every day. Sooner or later it’s going to come up front and center and yes, I hate to say, Congress will have to get involved. The Death mongers don’t want this. They want to pick and chose who will live and die…it may end up that Congress has to protect those who cannot speak for themselves.

WASHINGTON (AP) – Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, who took a leading role in the Terry Schiavo case, said Sunday it taught him that Americans do not want the government involved in such end-of-life decisions.

Many people were quite happy to see Congress get involved with Terri’s case…in spite of what certain people have written and said, there is much evidence of political ploys and dealings between Terri’s (non) husband and the judge that ordered her death sentence. There were and still are far too many questions about the circumstances surrounding her inital injuries that caused her to be in the situation she was in…questions that have never been answered. Autospy reports have been written about and are misleading. Who was looking out for Terri? Not her husband. Her family was. As they should have been. I have heard from the aides who worked with Terri and she was not the comatose, veg a lot of people were making her out to be. She had a G Tube for support…NOTHING else.

Frist, R-Tenn., said in the full Senate that he supported what he called “an opportunity to save Mrs. Schiavo’s life.” A heart surgeon, Frist had viewed video ordered by a court and taken by a board-certified neurologist who had concluded she was not in a persistent vegetative state.

Congress passed a bill to allow a federal court to review the case, and President Bush quickly returned from his Texas ranch to sign the bill into law. But a federal judge refused to order the tube reinserted, a decision upheld by a federal appeals court and the Supreme Court.

Frist was later mocked as having made a diagnosis from his office using a video screen. “I didn’t make the diagnosis,” Frist said Sunday. “I raised the question of whether or not she was in a persistent vegetative state.”

There was no harm in seeking one last opinion about this. Because of all the questions about her true condition, Terri’s husband should have been more proactive with allowing tests to be performed; he should not have denied her a wheelchair, denied her therapies and activities. He shouldn’t have been so eager -when he found out she had infections- to deny her treatments for them and ask, “Is she dying yet?”- (6 years before her death last year…) He should never have denied her to have simple artwork on the walls of her room, and ordered the nursing staff to never open her blinds and curtains. The nursing staff were the one’s who first started questioning Michael Schiavo’s motives way back…Her parents didn’t know everything he had been denying her. They offered to take care of her and pay for her care…but the way I see it is it wasn’t enough money, compared to what he would get from his book he’s having someone write in his name. No Dr. Frist…what Congress did was extraordinary indeed…But it isn’t over yet. People are complex beings and many have a lot to hide, like Mr. Schiavo….someone has to look out for those who will lose the most here.