21 Years Ago They Starved Terri Schiavo to Death

The Terri Schiavo case was a tipping point in this country’s morality. Before her death, people couldn’t believe we dehydrate cognitively disabled people to death. Afterwards, majorities supported such actions. But that doesn’t remove the bite of injustice inflicted in the name of compassion on Terri and her blood family. If we are ever to a return to a more just society that cares for the most vulnerable among us rather than seeing their deaths as beneficent, it is important to keep the story...