(By Bethel McGrew/ WORLD) – All of us in the faith and culture writing business can recall those moments in our young lives when we became politically aware.
For me, one of those moments was the murder of Terri Schiavo, a young disabled woman whose family’s fight against her court-sanctioned death made headlines around the world. I hadn’t yet been born in 1990, when Terri first collapsed under mysterious circumstances and suffered the brain damage that would leave her locked in for life.
But by the early 2000s, when her estranged husband was seeking to remove her basic nourishment and end it all, I was a budding young pro-lifer. My mother, a staunch conservative commentator with a keen interest in constitutional law, followed and documented the case closely. CONTINUE