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Family spokesperson: Schiavo feeding tube removed

Friday, March 18, 2005

Terri Schiavo is staying at a Pinellas Park hospice.
A spokesperson for Michael Schiavo says Terri Schiavo's feeding tube was removed Friday with Michael in attendance.

He says a prayer service was held first, and that Michael was emotional and crying, saying he wanted to put the situation behind him.

Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Court Judge George Greer denied two U.S. House of Representative emergency motions Friday, which allowed the tube's removal.

The first motion was to intervene in the case for the House Committee on Government Reform and the second motion was to push the date back nine days so it could conduct what it calls a field investigation concerning the healthcare of Schiavo.

The reinstatement followed a decision by a Sixth Judicial Circuit Court of Florida judge block the removal of Schiavo's feeding tube minutes before the scheduled 1 p.m. removal time.

The U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Government Reform issued a subpoena Friday morning requesting Schiavo, her husband Michael and doctors involved appear before them March 28.

The subpoena provides legal protection to the people they are issued to, meaning nothing can be done to cause harm or result in the death of that person or prevent them from showing up to testify in front of the U.S. Congress.

A neurologist appeared at Terri Schiavo's Pinellas Park hospice center Friday with a TV screen to show video of patients he treated that were in worse condition than Schiavo and got better.

That procedure happens when all state remedies have been exhausted and state action is going to take the life of a person. The federal court has a right to step in and review the process.

Michael Schiavo says Terri, 41, wouldn't want to live in this condition, while her parents think she can be rehabilitated.

Protestors on both sides of the issue are outside the hospice.

http://www.baynews9.com/content/74/2005/3/18/74931.html

[phenn]

>>Michael was emotional and crying, saying he wanted to put the situation behind him.

Does anyone still have any questions about this guy? Is the above clear enough for everyone?

[the invisib1e hand]

Protestors on both sides of the issue are outside the hospice. Protestors on both sides? what on earth are the "kill terry" people saying? "We know she would rather be dead?" WTF?