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Article: FLORIDA LOSES TERRI SCHIAVO APPEAL.(News)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- January 24, 2005
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Byline: Gina Holland Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court refused today to reinstate a Florida law passed to keep a severely brain-damaged woman hooked to a feeding tube, clearing the way for it to be removed. How soon that would happen, however, was unclear.
The Florida Supreme Court had struck down the law last fall, and the justices were the last hope for state leaders who defended the law in a bitter long running dispute over the fate of Terri Schiavo.
Her husband, Michael Schiavo, contends she never wanted to be kept alive artificially. But her parents told justices in a filing that their son-in-law is trying to rush her death ...