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The Christian attorney who fought to keep Terry Schiavo alive says the three leading GOP presidential candidates don't understand the important disability issues involved in the widely publicized 2005 case. Hear This Report During a recent Republican presidential debate in California, the candidates were asked whether Congress was right to intervene in the Terry Schiavo case by attempting to prevent the state of Florida from removing the disabled woman's feeding tube. The answers varied.Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts, said he thought it "was a mistake" for Congress to get involved and the matter should have been left at...

St. Petersburg, FL (LifeNews.com) -- David Gibbs, the attorney who represented Terri Schiavo's parents and family in the intense battle leading up to her euthanasia death, has released a new book dispelling some of the myths the mainstream media reported about Terri. In "Fighting for Dear Life," Gibbs sets the record straight and gives an inside view into the national drama that surrounded her.The debate over Terri Schiavo's life was more than just a heartfelt story on the nightly news. It grabbed the attention of Americans and made them focus on the difficult questions that accompany end of life...

Today: March 09, 2005 at 19:23:14 PST Plans Afoot to Keep Schiavo Feeding Tube By MITCH STACY ASSOCIATED PRESS CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) - Florida's social services agency and Republican state lawmakers acted on two fronts Wednesday to block the March 18 removal of a feeding tube for a woman at the center of a contentious right-to-die case. The Department of Children & Family Services sought to intervene in the case to investigate allegations of abuse and neglect by Terri Schiavo's husband, while Republican lawmakers crafted a bill requiring that incapacitated people be given water and nutrition unless a living will...

VICKIE CHACHERE Associated Press TAMPA, Fla. - Terri Schiavo's parents asked a Pinellas court judge Monday to allow her to divorce her husband - in either life or death - in a court filing accusing Michael Schiavo of adultery and not acting in his wife's best interests. The filing was one of a flurry of 15 motions filed by Bob and Mary Schindler as they now have less than three weeks to find a legal way to keep their severely brain-damaged daughter alive. Terri Schiavo is scheduled to have the feeding tube that has kept her alive for 15 years...

After a series of ads in the University of Arizona newspaper railed against left-wing professors, a student allegedly reported Professor David Gibbs to the FBI for being "an anti-American communist who hates America." A series of ads have been running in student newspapers across the country charging that universities are dominated by liberal or left-wing professors. The ads are paid for by well-funded groups like Students for Academic Freedom and the Independent Women's Forum. Some of the ads encourage students to report any so-called anti-American faculty or statements made by professors. And that is apparently what happened to David Gibbs,...