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Originally published June 20, 2005 at 12:00 AM | Page modified June 20, 2005 at 2:08 PM

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The last assault on Terri Schiavo

Never, ever expect an apology from the creeps and ghouls who eagerly exploited the life and death of Terri Schiavo for their own political...

Never, ever expect an apology from the creeps and ghouls who eagerly exploited the life and death of Terri Schiavo for their own political purposes.

Her autopsy report released last week was one final, vulgar invasion of her privacy by a Republican Congress willing to use the Florida woman's tragic circumstances to pander to a yowling mob. Her death after years in a persistent vegetative state had to be explored for all manner of foul play suspected of her husband — the one person who fought to give her what she wanted, death with dignity.

An exhaustive examination of her remains confirmed she was not strangled, poisoned, bludgeoned or starved to death. The study found her brain shriveled to half its normal size. She was not capable of all manner of animation and understanding attributed to what were her reflexive responses.

That awful Easter recess when Congress scurried about in pious self-importance passing a law and trying to bully the federal courts into intimidating Florida courts was a time of infamy.

Genuine shame is ascribed to those grotesque efforts to pervert justice and turn a tragedy into political gain.

Those who sweated and bullied and preened will never apologize because they have no decency in pursuit of influence and power.

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