McGrath: here is the piece you seem to be missing. The courts HAD finished the appeals process, and the tube was removed. But then Congress intervened, passing a NEW law, which forced the appeals process to start all over again.

Again--the feeding tube was not removed before the legal process ended. The appeals to prevent removal of the tube had gone all the way the US Supreme Court, the highest legal authority in the US. When the US Supreme Court and the Florida Supreme Court (the highest legal authority in the State of Florida) refused to overrule the trial judge who ordered the tube removed, that meant the tube HAD to be removed.

So AFTER the legal process ended, and there were no more appeals that could be followed, the trial judge then, and only then ordered the tube removed.

It was AFTER the tube was legally removed that the Congress intervened, and attempted to do an end run around the courts, and start the whole process from square one again, as if no court proceedings had ever occurred.

The feeding tube was not removed before the legal process ended.

The legal process HAD ended. It had gone to the US Supreme Court. Congress had to invent and pass a whole new law to start the legal process over again.

Now, the US Supreme Court, the highest court in the land, has spoken. The supporters of Terri Schiavo are now insisting that Gov Jeb Bush violate the court order to stay out of the hospice and away from Terri Schiavo (issued yesterday, when he tried to use his "executive privlege" to intervene again and take Terri into protective custody), kidnap Terri Schiavo from her hospice, take her to a hospital, and reinsert the tube.

That is what we are dealing with here. They are claiming that their "God's law" (and remember, we have no official religion in this country) should be allowed to trump US law.

That is what