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  • Belgian Case Reignites 'Brain Dead' Debate as Catholics Order Force Feedings

    11/28/2009 4:36:46 PM PST · by wagglebee · 17 replies · 478+ views
    ABC News ^ | 11/25/09 | Susan Donaldson James
    The family of Terri Schiavo, the Florida woman who was artificially kept alive for 15 years, say they feel both heartbreak and vindication over the news this week that a Belgian man thought to be in a persistent vegetative state (PVS) was fully conscious for two decades. Schiavo, who had been diagnosed with a profound brain injury, was at the center of a seven-year legal tug-of-war that involved Congress, the U.S. Supreme Court and even President George W. Bush before a judge granted her husband the right to allow her to die in 2005. In a strikingly similar case...