The portion of Florida's civil rights law that allows people to decide in advance whether they want to be kept alive through artificial means remains intact after a series of appeals in the case of Terri Schiavo. But legal scholars watching the case suspect the emotionally charged battle over Schiavo's fate will spur lawmakers to act to prevent such disputes in the future. Those emotions reached a climax last week when the 39- year-old St. Petersburg woman's feeding tube was removed on court orders. ``I don't see that this case itself is in any way groundbreaking in terms of the...
