Pro-Life News in Brief Schindler-Schiavo Death Deadline Extended to October.(Brief Article)

Terri Schindler-Schiavo's court-ordered starvation and dehydration death will not occur until 3 p.m. October 9, a Florida judge ruled, giving her parents another month to exhaust all appeals, the St. Petersburg Times reported.

Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Court Judge George Greer previously ruled August 7 that Schindler-Schiavo's husband, Michael Schiavo, could order her feeding tube removed at 3 p.m. August 28, the Times reported. When Schindler-Schiavo's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, an-nounced they would file an appeal to the 2nd District Court of Appeal, Greer extended the deadline.

The Schindlers assert that their daughter, who has been disabled since a 1990 heart attack, is not in a persistent vegetative state and should be allowed to live, according to the Times. "You cannot execute a mentally disabled person just for being mentally disabled," Pat Anderson, the Schindlers' attorney, told the Times. "Her only crime is that she is mentally disabled."

Michael Schiavo insists that her condition will never im-prove and that his wife would have wanted to die, the Times reported. "It's my client's position that the impairment to his wife's rights is being caused by the frivolous misuse of the legal system by her parents," his attorney, George Felos, told the Times.

Divorced Father Cannot Use Frozen Embryos

In New Jersey's first embryo-custody case, the state Supreme Court ruled in favor of a woman and against her ex-husband who had asked that their frozen embryos be kept in storage so he could use them with another woman or donate them to an infertile couple, according to the Associated Press (AP).

The court ruled August 14 that the embryos could not be im-planted into another woman without the ex-wife's consent, the AP reported. But in its 7-0 decision, the court also held that the ex-husband be allowed to decide whether they should be kept in storage or destroyed.