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CLEARWATER (FBW)-Michael Schiavo simply won’t give up on trying to remove his 41-year-old disabled wife’s feeding tube, his attorney said after a court hearing extending a stay in the case until 5 p.m. EST today. George Felos, the “right-to-die” attorney representing Schiavo told Florida Baptist Witness his client “deeply loves Terri” and cares about her despite cohabitating openly with his fiancée, Jodi Centonze, since 1995. The couple now have two children together. “He simply is not gong to walk away from that promise he made to [Terri] when she said, ‘Honey, don’t keep me alive like that,’” said Felos, describing...

Clock in Schiavo case remains frozen at eleventh hour an ABC Action News report 02/23/05 - updated 6:04 p.m. CLEARWATER - Once again, attorneys for Terri Schiavo's husband and family stood in court, arguing over her future. And once again, there were a few surprises, but no resolution. At a Wednesday afternoon emergency hearing just hours before a temporary stay was to expire, circuit court Judge George Greer decided to extend the stay until Friday afternoon. "I had intended to conclude this hearing 15 minutes ago and get an order prepared based upon what I had heard. I have heard...

A court rules that a feeding tube can be removed, a judge orders a stay, and the legal struggle continues. WILLIAM R. LEVESQUE, CHRIS TISCH and LAUREN BAYNE ANDERSON Published February 23, 2005 PINELLAS PARK - The seven-year legal battle over the fate of Terri Schiavo reaches a critical and familiar juncture today leading either to the end of her life or more legal maneuvers to sustain it. Just days before the 15th anniversary of their daughter's collapse, Bob and Mary Schindler are once again asking a judge today to stop Michael Schiavo from ordering his wife's feeding tube to...

On February 14, 2005, disability advocates with Not Dead Yet issued a call for moratorium on the withholding of assisted sustenance and hydration from people diagnosed to be in a persistent vegetative or minimally conscious state. Citing study findings published in a recent edition of Neurology Magazine, Not Dead Yet’s Stephen Drake stated: "Given the current research regarding brain activity and misdiagnosis, it's a virtual certainty that countless people have been helpless to prevent their own deaths through starvation and dehydration." The study Drake refers to was reported in the February 8, 2005 edition of the New York Times. The...

Tuesday, October 21, 2003 Terri lives! Brain-disabled woman's feeding tube restored after Florida governor intervenes Posted: October 21, 2003 © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com With crowds cheering wildly, an ambulance took Terri Schindler-Schiavo from the Pinellas Park, Fla., hospice to a nearby hospital, where, on orders from Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, she was re-connected to a feeding tube to rehydrate her after six days of court-ordered starvation. With only a few hours remaining before she sliped beyond the point where she could be saved, Florida lawmakers delivered to the governor legislation empowering him to order Schiavo's feeding tube reinserted and Bush signed...

ORLANDO -- Gov. Jeb Bush ordered state lawyers Tuesday to seek the appointment of a guardian for the 6-month-old fetus of a mentally disabled woman who was raped, overruling child welfare officials who said such an appointment would be illegal. A Department of Children & Families attorney, citing earlier court decisions on abortion, had told a newspaper that the state would seek to have a guardian appointed for the woman during a Wednesday court hearing but not the fetus. The attorney had said the state would wait until birth to seek a guardian for the baby.