"a state court permitted the removal of the tube"--the correct framing of [View All]

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the role of the court in this case--thus permitting Terri's wishes to be carried out. The Globe got it right!!

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/04/01/moral_debate_rekindles_as_schiavos_life_ends/

Moral debate rekindles as Schiavo's life ends
Death after food tube's removal sets off push in Congress

By Raja Mishra, Globe Staff | April 1, 2005

PINELLAS PARK, Fla. -- After nearly two weeks without food or water, Terri Schiavo, 41, died yesterday with her husband cradling her in a hospice bed, a tranquil end to the life of a severely brain-damaged woman whose plight prompted Americans to weigh the sanctity of life against the right to die.
That anguished moral debate could lead to broad changes in the rights of the dying and disabled.

Social conservatives said they would press Congress when it returns next week from recess to pass legislation limiting the rights of spouses or relatives to end care for an incapacitated person like Schiavo. Activists also plan to lobby the Senate to bar filibusters against judicial nominees, so that President Bush can win confirmation for conservatives inclined to order life support continued in such cases.

For more than a decade, Michael Schiavo had argued that his wife, who had been in a persistent vegetative state for 15 years, would have wanted to die. But her parents disagreed in a family feud that led to the most legal action of any such case in US history, ultimately drawing in all three branches of the federal government. The public saga ended when Terri Schiavo, clutching stuffed animals from her childhood, passed away at 9:05 a.m., 13 days after a state court permitted the removal of the tube that provided her with nutrition.......