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The Human Rorschach Test By Sydney Smith Published 12/04/2003 Terri Schiavo, the severely disabled Florida woman at the center of a medical and legal controversy these past months, has become something of a Rorschach test of American life and death values. For some, she's the worst-case scenario of the limits of medical technology -- snatched from the jaws of death only to be left to a fate worse than death. For others, she's the worst-case scenario of medical paternalism -- completely and totally disabled, voiceless, at the mercy of doctors and avaricious relatives, and deserving of every legal protection the...

Bush wants new trial over Terri Schiavo's wishes Last Update: 11/20/2003 7:22:03 AM (Tampa-AP) -- Governor Jeb Bush is taking legal pot shots at the husband of a brain damaged woman who is at the center of a right to die case. Bush is saying there needs to be a jury trial on whether Terri Schiavo wanted to be kept alive artificially. The governor also wants Circuit Judge Douglas Baird removed from hearing the constitutionality of a new law, which was enacted to reinsert a feeding tube keeping her alive after her husband had it removed last month. Terri Schiavo...