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Starvation by serendipity

Daniel Schorr made an astonishing remark Monday on National Public Radio's All Things Considered: "The [Terri Schiavo] case is a triumph of symbolism over substance. She has become the cause celebre of the right to life movement. There is no equally powerful right to death movement." How is it, then, that Terri Schiavo is now in her fifth day of court-ordered starvation and dehydration?