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...sweetheart. Hi, hi, it's mommy," says Mary Schindler to her daughter in a video available on the Internet. Terri Schiavo, 39, who hasn't been fully conscious for 13 years, gazes in her mother's direction from her hospital bed, and her expression blooms from slack-jawed passivity to beatific smile. She seems happy, comforted, aware--at least those are the interpretations the naive viewer would be inclined to apply. There are other brief videos on terrisfight.org In one, Schiavo seems to follow the movements of a balloon with her eyes; in another, she appears to comply with...
...House Woodside in Pinellas Park, Fla., where Schiavo lies abed, about 30 people stood vigil last Thursday. They were protesting the removal of Schiavo's feeding tube the day before, an action sought by her husband Michael and approved by a Florida Circuit Court judge but bitterly opposed by Terri's parents Mary and Bob Schindler. Striding among them like a pep-rally leader was the nattily dressed Randall Terry, the prominent right-to-life advocate. "I'm here because the Schindlers asked me to be here," he declared. "This woman is being murdered...
...medicine and political grandstanding all come together in the tragic saga of Terri Schiavo, perhaps the most acrimonious end-of-life case to date. Decisions to remove feeding tubes or respirators from patients with no hope of recovery are daily events in hospitals. They are seen as a matter of established law, backed by such famous precedents as the 1976 Karen Ann Quinlan decision, in which parents were given permission to withdraw a respirator from their vegetative 21-year-old daughter, and the 1990 Nancy Cruzan case, in which the parents of an unconscious 33-year-old were allowed...
...decision-making power over his wife's treatment after he found her unconscious on the floor of their Florida home in February 1990. The 26-year-old had suffered cardiac arrest; her brain was severely damaged by lack of oxygen. Two years later, Michael won a malpractice suit against Terri's doctor. The jury awarded $700,000 for Terri's care and $300,000 to Michael for loss of companionship. In 1998 Michael sought permission to remove his wife's feeding tube, arguing that she had told him years earlier that she would not want to live in a severely...
...teacher in Murfreesboro, Tenn., did not vote for George Bush and still thinks he stole the election from Al Gore. But when it comes to what the Administration has done against terrorism, she admits, "I think everything they've done is necessary. I absolutely support them in this." Adds Terri Brill, a 42-year-old mom from the Denver suburbs: "Personally, I think we need to close our borders; the threat is out there, it's coming after us, we need to protect ourselves...