Word: terri
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...DIED. TERRI SCHIAVO, 41, at a hospice in Pinellas Park, Fla., 13 days after her feeding tube was disconnected following a court order sought by her husband and guardian Michael; after a wrenching family and judicial battle that pitted Michael against Terri's parents and siblings and, ultimately, some members of Congress...
STANLEY BIRCH, a conservative judge in Atlanta's federal appeals court, rebuking the President and Congress for behaving like "activist judges" in intervening in the Terri Schiavo case
...POWER LINE bloggers who launched the Dan Rather Memogate questions last year are doubting the authenticity of another incendiary document: a talking-points memo, first reported last month by ABC News and the Washington Post, detailing how Republican Senators could use Terri Schiavo to their advantage. Righties, after floating the idea that the unsigned--and letterhead-less--memo could have been "a Democratic dirty trick," were angling for retractions. But ABC and the Post countered that they never said a G.O.P. official wrote the memo, only that it was "circulated among" and "distributed to" Republican Senators...
...such a man could hang on such decisions. "If he had stayed inside, he wouldn't have risked infection." By Thursday the decline was swift. Even as the U.S. continued its great debate over when to remove a feeding tube, the Vatican revealed the Pope was on one. Terri Schiavo, once a private, ordinary woman, had no choice about whether her death would be a passion play for an audience caught in an argument over when life begins and ends. The Pope, a very public and extraordinary man, made sure his message was clear: that life is God's alone...
...want to become a donor, how can you make sure your wishes are carried out? Just checking the box on your driver's license or carrying an organ-donor card is often not enough. The consent of your family may also be required (and as the Terri Schiavo case showed, it's not always easy for everyone to reach agreement...