No, I have not suggested that the parents are political opportunists. My own feeling about their likely motivation is that they want to try to give some meaning to their daughter's short and tragic life. The political opportunists are the people (politicians and religious extremists) who are using whatever deep need the parents have for wanting to prolong their daughter's existance in her current condition, to their political advantage. And make no mistake... that is precisely what is happening.

This issue is in no way about anyone's "right to life". It is, for everyone with the possible exception of Michael Schiavo and the Schindlers, about some politicians' need to get elected/re-elected.