So argues The Nation’s resident abortion absolutist, Katha Pollitt:

The Schiavo case only looks unprecedented: For decades, women seeking to
terminate pregnancies have faced gantlets of screamers, invasions of
privacy, violence in the name of “saving babies,” charges of murder and of
evil motives, politically motivated legal obstacles, spurious medical
“expertise” (abortion causes breast cancer; Terri Schiavo just needs
therapy). There is the same free-floating vitriol: Abortion is the “Silent
Holocaust,” while, according to Peggy Noonan, those who support Ms.
Schiavo’s right to die are on “a low road that twists past Columbine and
leads toward Auschwitz” …

Mark Schmitt was worried too:

[T]he Schiavo case reveals the true priorities of the right: they are happy
to abandon the principles of federalism if the issue is related to
questions of “life.” But if they are willing to cast aside federalism in
the Schiavo case, won’t they be willing to do the same in the context of
abortion? And if they are, won’t that inevitably lead to attempts to pass
federal legislation banning abortion?