The Republican controlled Congress has now taken over a person's life in the case of Terri Schiavo. It it NOT the role of Congress to meddle in a person's private affairs but this is not surprising in that they want to ban abortion. This action is damnable no matter how one might feel about keeping a person alive artificially or not. It is the patient and her family's decision, not that of the U.S. Congress and I fear this will set some sort of horrendous precedent for the future of all Americans.