On Friday, a judge in Florida extended a court order to keep Terri Schiavo's feeding tube in place until March 18, allowing her parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, an opportunity to get medical tests that might demonstrate Terri has greater cerebral function than previously thought. This momentary reprieve from what may be their daughter's vindictive and inhumane death sentence – death by starvation – is at least temporary good news. Why on earth should they have to prove such a thing? They love Terri and value her life as she is.

Deuteronomy says: "I have set before thee life and death … therefore choose life." The Schindlers have chosen life for their daughter! Should a court do anything less?

This is insanity. What a chilling precedent it would set for Florida, and conceivably for the United States, this ostensible “right to die.” In the case of Terri Schiavo, it seems apparent that her determined breathing is a nuisance to her wretched excuse for a husband, and in his eyes, it is obviously a “duty to die.” God help us all.