Shaivo V Schindler

1- The central controversy is who has the decision on whether or not this woman is fed and therefore kept alive.

2- Michael Shaivo is one interest involved, he wants the feeding tube removed so he can move on with his life and maybe remarry. The Schindlers are another interest; they want their daughter kept alive for the full duration of her life.

3- For the right to life people, this is a great issue, because it strikes at the heart that life (in any form) is precious and deserves to be guarded. They may see this as being sub-applicable to the abortion issue. The other political interest comes from the people who support assisted suicide, since this is a similar instance to those cases.

4- This particular article was able to dumb it down enough for me. Only joking, this article made it simple enough that we could understand what is going on now. It also brought up what has happened in the past to reinforce that this is not just an anomaly.

5- About right…

6- With a little critical thinking, anyone can wrap their minds around this issue and see the end games for the different interests.

7- The best part of the story was the amount of information that it got across in such a little amount of time. We went from what happened this morning to what happened years ago.

8- There was one part of the story that struck me as somewhat odd…it said that the Schindlers were surprised by the federal court ruling. Though they would most likely be surprised, I hardly think that it’s newsworthy without some sort of supporting facts. They may have been surprised because every time they appeal the ruling of the other court they have been able to get that ruling overturned. This time they did not, so that could be call for surprise, but the article doesn’t explain that.