Beware that liberals do not fall into the
right-wing trap with the Schiavo issue. The Coulters and Noonans of the punditocracy want to frame the Schiavo case within a Democrat/Republican dynamic -- infecting the issue with one repeated theme: Republicans and conservatives want to save poor Terri, Democrats and liberals want to murder/torture/sentence her to death.
See this cartoon for a perfect example.
IMO, that's their primary objective. The fact that moderate and even conservative Republicans oppose what the extreme right is doing is irrelevant to them. Can anyone believe for a nanosecond that someone as amoral and ungodly as Ann Coulter cares one whit for Terri Schiavo? The only thing the right-wing bleaters care about is the fight against their perceived enemy.
They are trying to put liberals on the defensive because it distracts attention from the fact that the majority of court decisions in the Schiavo case have been made by conservative Republicans, and that the Schiavo case is not about Democrats vs. Republicans, but extremists vs. everyone else. We should constantly reiterate this point.