What happens next? Assuming the Schiavo case does get reviewed by a federal court, what if it decides the same way as the multiple Florida courts that have looked at this case?
Suppose it finds, as did the court in 2000 (pdf), that Mrs. Schiavo had said that she didn’t want to have tubes in her, didn’t want to be a burden, had asked to be let go? Suppose if finds that most of her brain is gone, and that the videotape that’s got everyone so excited is an edited version of a longer tape that shows she is unresponsive and moving reflexively? Suppose it finds that the affidavits of doctors who have never examined Terri are worthless?
Suppose it finds that Mrs. Schiavo’s civil rights are being violated, by those who want to violate her body by surgically implanting an artificial tube into her stomach, without her consent?
Will that end the circus of horror? Will anything?