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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- On Wednesday, attorneys for Florida Governor Jeb Bush filed a request with the nation's top court asking it to uphold a law passed by the state legislature that allowed Bush to prevent Terri Schiavo's estranged husband Michael from subjecting her to a painful starvation death. The request asks the Supreme Court to decide if Terri's right to equal treatment under the law has been violated by state courts that overturned Terri's Law, the measure that allowed Bush to save Terri's life. Bush attorney Ken Connor, former head of the Family Research Council and a pro-life advocate,...

A woman television presenter who was critically injured in the Potters Bar train crash has made a miraculous recovery - nearly two years after doctors declared her brain-dead and said that she should be allowed to die. Relatives of Tanya Liu, a 34-year-old Taiwanese-born newsreader, say they were told by British doctors that she was in a persistent vegetative state after the crash in May 2002, which killed two of her friends and five other people, and left 76 injured. Doctors at the Royal Free Hospital in north London said that Ms Liu's injuries were so horrific that there was...

MIAMI GARDENS -- For 33 years, in a bedroom decorated with angels, Kaye O'Bara has tended to her daughter, Edwarda, a diabetic whose heart stopped beating in 1970, damaging her brain and thrusting her into a sleep from which she has never awakened. Kaye turns Edwarda from side to side a dozen times a day to prevent bedsores. She mixes baby food, milk, eggs, orange juice, Mazola oil, brewer's yeast and a piece of white bread into a blender and then a wire mesh strainer, pouring the concoction into Edwarda's feeding tube every two hours, day and night. She suctions...

Pinellas Park, FL (LifeNews.com) -- A local judge will not reappoint a Stetson University law professor who was previously selected as guardian ad litem for Terri Schiavo. Professor Jay Wolfson was selected for the position after the state legislature passed Terri's Law. Charged with evaluating Terri's condition, Wolfson claimed Terri is in a persistent vegetative state, though numerous doctors and specialists disagree with his conclusion. Wolfson also said that she deserved to be given a swallowing test to see if she can eat and drink on her own before a decision is made to remove her feeding tube another time....

CLEARWATER, Fla. - A judge on Friday rejected Gov. Jeb Bush's request that an independent guardian continue working in the interests of a severely brain-damaged woman at the center of a right-to-die case. Chief Judge David Demers ruled that he would not reappoint a guardian to the case, citing pending litigation over the constitutionality of the law that called for the guardian for Terri Schiavo. "Terri Schiavo yet again has been denied an independent voice in the proceedings that may very well determine the outcome of her life," the governor's office said in a statement. Florida courts repeatedly have said...

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...

Barely touched upon is the subject of life insurance on Terri Schiavo. As CNN and other sources reported, 'Michael Schiavo has declined to comment on whether there is an outstanding life insurance policy on his wife.' http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/10/23/coma.woman/ Insurers have a duty to cancel policies when they have notice that a beneficiary is trying to murder the insured. snips from http://www.rivkinradler.com/200212tolle.html The case reached the Florida Supreme Court, which affirmed, finding that an insurer can be liable in tort to the insured where the beneficiary attempts to murder the insured to collect the policy proceeds and where the insurer had actual...

<p>Daughter's recovery after six months adds layer to debate over sustaining a patient's life. To look into your daughter's vacant eyes. To hold her indifferent hand. To wonder if she knows when you leave the room. For six months, Debbie Lord tried to raise her daughter Evelyn from what doctors described as a persistent vegetative state. Some of those doctors said Evelyn would never recover. They encouraged Lord to let the girl die.</p>

MANY WHO SUPPORT Terri Schiavo's threatened dehydration assert that removing a feeding tube from a profoundly cognitively disabled person results in a painless and gentle ending. But is this really true? After all, it would be agonizing if you or I were locked in a room for two weeks and deprived of all food and water. So, why should we believe that cognitively disabled patients experience the deprivation differently simply because they receive nourishment through a feeding tube instead of by mouth?

...it was eventually believed that I would not come out of it; there was much talk about pulling the plug, but the only problem was that I was there and could hear it but the means I had to communicate were not conventional. I couldn't talk, but I could draw letters in the air, and while I was drawing the word D O N ' T in the air backwards so they could see it, and while I was blinking like crazy and doing everything I could think of on my own to commmunicate while they discussed that I couldn't...

CLEARWATER - In a case dominated by strong personalities, everyone has an opinion on what's best for Terri Schiavo. The parents. The husband. The governor. The Legislature. But at the center of the latest controversy, one man is left to decide. Those who know Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Judge W. Douglas Baird say he will set aside political rhetoric and gut-wrenching emotion. Instead, he will focus on the law. At issue is whether the Legislature violated the Florida Constitution by passing a new law that allowed Gov. Jeb Bush to force doctors to reinsert Schiavo's feeding tube Oct. 21. On Wednesday, attorneys...

Terri's Call to Action Part 1 is over 5000 posts. If you don't want to get caught up to speed at Part 1: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/971896/posts?q=1&&page=5167#5167 Simply visit Terri's official web site at: http://www.terrisfight.org There are contact numbers at her web site for her core media team, legislators, media and for press updates. See flash movies of Terri interacting with her mother, responding to a physician and see for yourself that she's not in PVS "persistant vegetative state"). In addition to access a text file with a lot of information see: http://bellsouthpwp.net/p/c/pc93/FedCourtDktCaseNo8_03-cv-1860-T-26TGW.txt If you want to join Terri's fight, it's important for...