"Death and Circuses" (World Press Review)

World Press Review covers European response to the Schiavo case:

The fate of brain-damaged Terri Schiavo has preoccupied Europeans as well as Americans during one of their most religious seasons. But compassion for a dying woman and her family was not the only reaction. There was also widespread alarm over the mix of raw politics and religious zealotry in American public life.

“Euthanasia, abortion, stem cell research and, above all, the death penalty mark out a transatlantic gulf which is far more clear-cut than even on Iraq,” explained Bronwen Maddox in The Times of London (March 22).