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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-24-05 05:27 PM
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SC refuses to hear FL appeal in Terri Schiavo case
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Her father calls it "judicial homicide."

January 24, 2005
Fla. Loses Appeal in Terri Schiavo Case
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 5:10 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court refused on Monday to step in and keep a severely brain-damaged woman hooked to a feeding tube, all but ending a long-running right-to-die battle pitting her husband against her parents.

It was the second time the Supreme Court dodged the politically charged case from Florida, where Republican Gov. Jeb Bush successfully lobbied the Legislature to pass a law to keep 41-year-old Terri Schiavo on life support.

The decision was criticized as ``judicial homicide'' by Mrs. Schiavo's father, Robert Schindler, but applauded by her husband, Michael Schiavo, who contends his wife never wanted to be kept alive artificially.

The court's action is very narrow, affecting only Schiavo.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Scotus-Brain-Damaged-Woman.html?pagewanted=print&position=
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