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'Terri's Law' to be Challenged Wednesday

Wednesday Deadline to Challenge 'Terri's Law'
TAMPA - Attorneys for Michael Schiavo have until Wednesday to challenge the constitutionality of a state law that gave Gov. Jeb Bush the authority to keep her alive. Schiavo's attorneys are expected to challenge what Florida lawmakers dubbed ``Terri's Law.'' There was some confusion about the due date for the legal brief because Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Judge W. Douglas Baird's office earlier reported it was due Monday. Schiavo's brief is due Wednesday, and an answer from Bush's office is due one week later, Baird's spokeswoman said Monday afternoon. Also, a coalition of disability rights group issued a statement in support of preserving Terri Schiavo's life. ``The belief that people with disabilities like (Schiavo's) are 'better off dead' is long-standing but wrong. It imperils us all,'' said the statement signed 14 organizations, including ADA Watch, Center on Human Policy and World Association of Persons with Disabilities.

Schiavo: In-Laws Wanted Money
TAMPA -- The husband seeking to end his wife's life told a national television audience Monday that his in-laws have set out to block his actions because they initially wanted part of a medical malpractice settlement and more recently because of right-to-life political causes. Appearing on CNN's "Larry King Live" in his first interview in recent weeks, Michael Schiavo said he continues to fight to let his wife, Terri, die because her wishes were not to be artificially kept alive.

Terri's Brother Says Husband's
Interview Full of 'Distortions'
In an effort toward damage control amid allegations of abuse and ulterior motives, the husband of the South Florida brain-damaged woman at the center of a 10-year legal battle over her life pleaded his case on CNN's "Larry King Live." Throughout the hour-long program last night, Schiavo painted the Schindlers as the money grubbers.

Schiavo Case Raises Whole Realm
of Life-Or-Death Ethical Dilemmas
The battle waging over 39-year-old Terri Schiavo has triggered a national discourse on the ethical and spiritual choices around death and dying. Schiavo, the comatose woman who had her feeding tube removed and then reinserted one week later after orders from Gov. Jeb Bush, is the center of a life-and-death battle.

Schiavo Case Spurs Interest in Living Wills
As the plight of Florida's Terri Schiavo continues to dominate news headlines, sparking debate over end of life issues, there is also a growing interest in living wills. Even the Florida Senate, which last week passed legislation that effectively forced the re-connecting of Schiavo's feeding tube, has posted a copy of a living will, along with other documents on selecting health care surrogates on its website.

Fla. Case Puts Focus On Living Wills
The life-or-death argument involving Terry Schiavo in Florida is creating a wave of reaction that reaches all the way to Lawrence as people contact attorneys and other legal experts to find out how to gain control over end-of-life decisions.

Video Of Brain Damaged Woman Shaping Public Opinion
ORLANDO, Fla. -- A potent picture is hard to ignore, and in the case of Terri Schiavo, the power of her image - propped up in bed, eyes open, seemingly smiling at her mother - has been incalculable. Her parents have fought in the courts for years to keep her alive and lost at every turn, but Bob and Mary Schindler won last week in the court of public opinion, thanks in part to TV and Internet news clips that spurred tens of thousands of people to demand action from Gov. Jeb Bush and the Florida Legislature.

Right to Die Sounds Nice
Unless Your Number’s Up
What strange times are these that we argue over whether to dehydrate to death a living human being. But thanks to medical technology that makes gods of beings unworthy, here we are.

Posted by Editor at October 28, 2003 06:31 AM