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Deadline Approaches for Withdrawal of Terri's Feeding Tube.(case of Terri Schiavo)
As NRL News goes to press, it is only a few days until an October 15 court order is scheduled to take effect that would remove the feeding tube through which Terri Schindler-Schiavo is fed. If the 39-year-old brain-injured woman is deprived of nourishment, she would die a ghastly death that could extend over a period of up to two weeks.
Terri's husband has fought a five-year-long legal battle to have the feeding tube removed, according to the Associated Press (AP). Terri's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, have been just as determined that their daughter be fed.
However, Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Court Judge George Greer has agreed with the husband that Terri is in a so-called persistent vegetative state (PVS) - - a diagnosis vigorously rejected by Terri's parents and more than a dozen experts. The parents have unsuccessfully tried to persuade Greer to disqualify himself and to obtain relief from the Florida Supreme Court.
Making a bad situation worse, as feared, Greer handed Terri's parents a second defeat, beyond scheduling the removal of the feeding tube at 2:00 p.m. October 15. He rejected requests by the Schindlers that Terri be "allowed an eight-week trial of speech, occupational and physical therapy," and "be taught to swallow food so she could be spoon-fed once the feeding tube is removed," according to WorldNetDaily.com.
In a three-page order Judge Lazzara set a hearing for October 10 to consider whether to block Greer's order. In addition, Judge Lazzara wrote ...
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