Erring 'on side of life' opens whole new can of worms At what point are we forced to live within the law even if we disagree morally with some of its outcomes?

Those who favored Congress' intervention in the Terri Schiavo caseused a two-tiered argument to justify their support.

The first tier was strictly legal: a variety of factors, includingconcerns over Michael Schiavo's fitness as a guardian as well asquestions about whether Schiavo was properly diagnosed as being in a"persistent vegetative state," gave Congress the right to mandatethat all the evidence in the case be given a fresh look (known as denovo) at the federal level.

The second tier of the argument -- which represented the broaderissue propelling the first -- was strictly moral: Our society shouldplace an exceptionally high value on innocent human life and …