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Florida Legislature to Consider Bill Helping Others Like Terri Schiavo by Steven Ertelt LifeNews.com Editor February 2, 2004 Tallahassee, FL (LifeNews.com) -- On Tuesday, members of the Florida state legislature will hold a hearing on pro-life legislation designed to help people who are in similar situations as Terri Schiavo, the woman who has been the subject of a national debate as her estranged husband attempts to end her life. The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on Senate Bill 692, which would make it more difficult to remove the feeding tubes from incapacitated patients that do not leave advance...

CLEARWATER - Michael Schiavo is seeking to block a conservative advocacy group from defending the constitutionality of Terri's Law. Bob and Mary Schindler do not have a legal interest in the controversial measure that allowed Gov. Jeb Bush to order that their daughter be kept alive, Schiavo attorney George Felos said Monday. Michael Schiavo contends Terri's Law violates his wife's constitutional right to refuse medical treatment. He sued Gov. Jeb Bush and Attorney General Charlie Crist on Oct. 21, the day Terri's Law was passed. That evening, Bush used the law to order that a feeding tube be reinserted into...