Terri Schiavo’s parents last week asked the same federal appeals court to order the reinsertion of their brain-damaged daughter’s feeding tube. Their move came hours after a federal judge refused the same request. Bob and Mary Schindler argue that their daughter’s due process and religious rights were being violated.
Schiavo’s husband, Michael, said she has no hope for recovery and wouldn’t want to be kept alive artificially. Meanwhile, the Republican Congress has intervened and opined on the issue, and Florida Gov. Jeb Bush last week ordered his legal team to scour state laws for a way to reconnect Schiavo’s feeding tube.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on March 29, 2005. Read the original PDF.