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For the future, that failing could be solved by legislative action.

It could be. But will it be? I doubt it. A federal judge just scolded the legislative and executive branches for trying to interfere with the judiciary and their sacrifice to show the world who runs the United States. So far the response of the leg. and exec. branches doesn't look promising.

Your exactly right.. an execution, without due process. I'm still in shock that this has happened in America. The court starved a woman to death and she fought for life for as long as she could. My heart goes out to her parents, I can't imagine how they feel. Cause I feel horrible.

A federal judge just scolded the legislative and executive branches for trying to interfere with the judiciary and their sacrifice to show the world who runs the United States. So far the response of the leg. and exec. branches doesn't look promising.

This, in my opinion, is one of the most bizarre and frightening aspects of this case. A legislative body, (in this case the FL Legislature), whose task it is to create laws did so, with a very vague "Clear and Convincing" clause in it. This clause was exploited, and Terri Schiavo fell victim to it. The FL state court made a ruling based upon this original form of the law. Then the FL Legislature attempted to amend the law (although I think it was too narrowly directed at one individual) in the form of the so-called "Terri's Law". The FL state court basically told the legislature that they could not amend what they had created, since the court had ruled on the original law, saying "it was an attempt to interfere in a judicial ruling". The court seems to have developed an irrational affection for the original form of the law, thus overstepping their authority in proclaiming it could not be modified, simply on the basis that they had made a ruling on the original form. They do not seem to realize that their only purpose is to assure that all laws are compatible with the state constitution, not whether the court likes one form of a law better than a modified one. The FL courts are WAY out of line on this.

You are quite right about legislative and executive responses not promising so far. Jeb Bush is the poster child for non-response. He only took SAFE action. A daring man, a man driven by the Holy Spirit, would have found some quasi-legal pretext, however threadbare, to raid that hospice, rescue Terri, reinsert the tube, and give her the rehab that would have made her a thinking functioning person. All these quasi-conservatives and quasi-christians who are saying not to blame Jeb but to blame judges like Greer are no different from persons who are soaked by the rain, yet do not bother to open an umbrella.