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Judge allows Schiavo's feeding tube removed in three weeks By VICKIE CHACHERE Associated Press Writer TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- A judge gave Terri Schiavo's husband permission to remove the brain-damaged woman's feeding tube in three weeks, giving him the latest victory in his effort to carry out what he says were his wife's wishes not to be kept alive artificially. Pinellas Circuit Court Judge George Greer issued the order two days after her parents asked the court to block their son-in-law from ordering doctors to remove the feeding tube that keeps the 41-year-old woman alive. He had granted Terri Schiavo's...

LET'S ASSUME everyone involved in the tragic saga of Terri Schiavo is acting in good faith; that - for all those fighting over whether to keep the 41-year-old Florida woman artificially alive on a feeding tube 15 years after a heart attack left her severely brain-damaged - the battle is about her and not about them. That her husband and her parents aren't mostly driven by their own anger, pain and resentments. That the politicians and the ideological advocates aren't primarily concerned with their own ambitions and agendas. That the thousands of callers and e-mailers seeking to involve themselves in...

Believers in the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence: Where is Terri's independence? I'm talking about her independence to learn and to be free from her lonely room. To kick off Terri's May-June 2004 Dailies, our first article is by Deroy Murdock of Scripps Howard News Service. Let Terri Schiavo's Parents Restore Her Dignity. May 22, 2004 http://www.naplesnews.com/npdn/images/columnists/deroymurdock.jpg Derry Murdock

Look At The Person Attached to the Tube By James M. Hoefler, Published St. Petersburg Times, Jan 10, 2004 There is much confusion and misunderstanding about the tragic case of Terri Schiavo, the Florida woman whose fate has become a matter of national attention in recent months. Schiavo has been seriously ill since a 1990 heart attack deprived her brain of oxygen for more than five minutes, causing severe and permanent loss of cognitive brain function. Her swallowing reflex was also compromised, so she has been kept alive hydrated and nourished by a feeding tube that was surgically implanted in...