Schiavo case exposes split in Republicans

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April 03, 2005

Sunday Times


WASHINGTON is braced for further controversy over the findings of an autopsy on Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged Florida woman who died last week after a seven-year legal battle over whether she should be kept alive, writes Tony Allen-Mills.

The autopsy was completed on Friday. Results will not be known for several weeks, but Schiavo’s husband, Michael, who had fought for his wife to be allowed to die, expects analysis of her brain to prove that she had no power to understand or communicate.

The results are certain to fuel a row over whether Congress should have intervened in what most Americans saw as a private family matter that should have been settled by the courts.

Moderate Republicans warned of a possible backlash amid complaints that the party had been tainted by association with militant Christians who campaigned for Schiavo to be kept alive. John Danforth, a former Republican senator, warned that his party was being transformed into “the political arm of conservative Christians”.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-1552435,00.html

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1. It is our role in this farce to drive as many wedges

into the Republican party as we possibly can.