TAMPA - Terri Schiavo's feeding tube could be pulled a week from Friday. Her husband Michael has fought a long legal battle to have it removed from his brain-damaged wife, saying she wouldn't want to live in a vegetative state.
In a rare interview, Mr. Schiavo spoke to M.J. on WFLZ radio Friday morning about the government's attempts to step into the case.
"What I'd like to talk about, and I need to let everybody know, is that big brother is going to start making your decisions: whether you die or not now. And people need to start speaking up, because is going to get into your personal, private lives and they're going to force you to have feeding tubes placed into your body, against your will, whether you want one or not," Schiavo said.
Action News anchor Brendan McLaughlin spoke to Michael Schiavo's brother on Friday, his first public interview ever. He responded to the million-dollar offer from a California businessman for Michael to give up Terri's guardianship.
"If that man is serious, what he ought to do, is take that million dollars and educate people that you need to have a living will," Brian Schiavo suggested.
You can hear the rest of Brian Schiavo's interview, and much more on the Terri Schiavo case, on Flashpoint this Sunday morning at 11.