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Parents ask judge to allow Terri Schiavo's feeding tube to stay
Associated Press
CLEARWATER, Fla. - The parents of a severely brain-damaged woman asked a judge Thursday to allow her feeding tube to stay, saying that she was denied her right to due process of law because she never had her own attorney.
The motion asks Circuit Judge George Greer to void the 2000 order that allowed Michael Schiavo order doctors to remove his wife's feeding tube.
"In reviewing the many boxes of court filings, we cannot find a single instance where Terri was afforded the right of every American to have a lawyer who would represent her own interests," said attorney David Gibbs III, who represents Terri's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler.
Michael Schiavo, who courts have ruled it his wife's guardian, said she never wanted to be kept alive artificially. Her parents contend Terri had no such end-of-life wishes.
Michael Schiavo's attorney, George Felos, did not immediately return a phone message Thursday.
The new motion also argues that a feeding tube was not considered life support at the time she is said to have made it, so even if Terri Schiavo did say she didn't want to be kept alive on life support, that wouldn't affect her feeding tube.
The motion also argues that the courts violated the constitutional separation of powers by acting as judge, lawmaker and proxy-gaurdian.
Terri Schiavo collapsed in 1990 from an eating disorder and suffered severe brain damage when her heart stopped beating. Some doctors who have examined her say she is in a persistent vegetative state with no hope for recovery, while doctors brought in by her parents say there is a chance of some rehabilitation.
The Schindlers do not believe their daughter, who left no written directive, is brain dead and say she cries, laughs and reacts to them. But Michael Schiavo and his attorney point to medical opinions that say those are involuntary reflexes.
They rallied Bush to come to their daughter's aid when her husband had the tube removed Oct. 15, 2003, and it appeared all other court remedies were exhausted.
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