TAMPA, Fla. -- A watchdog agency for the disabled pleaded Monday with a federal judge to keep a brain-damaged woman in the process of starving to death alive long enough to investigate a claim that she is being abused by her husband. The court argument came on a day of frantic activity from Tampa to Tallahassee by backers of Bob and Mary Schindler's efforts to keep their daughter Terri Schiavo alive and reverse a court order which is allowing their son-in-law to end her life with last week's removal of a feeding tube. U.S. District Judge Steven Merryday did not...
