Human Rights Issues

The policy that catches my attention most is human rights. Even in the midst of a divisive war, a health care crisis, and the continued erosion of our civil liberties that the legislative branch of our government still has time to ignore the separation of powers and interfere with a legitimate state court's decision. One subject that caught my attention was the Terri Schiavo saga in Florida. Mrs. Schiavo is a patient who is in a vegetative state who has had her feeding tube reinserted by order of the legislature and governor. …