Schiavo: A Turning Point?

It's easy to get very worked up about the Terri Schiavo case, and now all the more due to Congressional meddling in the matter. But this op-ed in the L.A. Times (free registration required) may not be too far off the mark:

Conservatives are the historical defenders of states' rights, and the supposed proponents of keeping big government out of people's lives, but this case once again shows that some social conservatives are happy to see the federal government acquire Stalinist proportions when imposing their morality on the rest of the country. So breathtaking was this attempted usurpation of power, wresting jurisdiction over a right-to-die case away from Florida's judiciary, that Republican leaders in the end had to agree to limit this legislation's applicability to the Schiavo case.