The Guardian Speaks

Published December 4, 2003 4:00am ET



THERE IS A BULL ELEPHANT in the living room of the Terri Schiavo case that many adamantly refuse to see. Terri’s husband Michael Schiavo has fallen in love with another woman. He has lived with his “fiancé” now for many years. The couple has been blessed with two children together. By any reasonable standard of judgment, falling in love with, committing to, and siring children by another woman estranges a husband from his wife. Indeed, in a divorce case, these facts would undoubtedly be construed as actions amounting to legal abandonment.

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