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Today, March 31, 2025, marks 20 years since Terri Schiavo’s death. It’s a day that her family, particularly her brother Bobby Schindler, remembers not as a quiet passing, but as the end of a brutal, court-ordered ordeal. For the Schindler family, Terri’s death was no abstract ethical debate; it was a deeply personal tragedy, a wound that has not healed. Two decades ago, after a 15-year struggle to keep their daughter and sister alive, they watched helplessly as she was starved and dehydrated over 13 agonizing days, following a judge’s ruling to remove her feeding tube. This anniversary is not...

Twenty years ago today, Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube was withdrawn with court approval, commencing a cruel deprivation of sustenance that resulted in her death by dehydration 13 days later. For those who may not remember, the case became the most hotly contested bioethics issue since Roe v. Wade as Terri’s husband Michael fought in courts and in the media with her parents and siblings over his desire to remove all Terri’s food and fluids. In the end, he won — and Terri died. Now, two bioethicists on the influential Hastings Center blog decry the case as wrongly brought. They get...

This month — March 30th — will mark 20 years since Terri Schindler Schiavo was cruelly killed, deprived of food and water for 13 days until she finally succumbed to dehydration and starvation. It was one of the most controversial bioethics issues to arise since Roe v. Wade, in what many deemed a victory for supposed “medical choice.” Now, two decades later, a pair of bioethicists is revisiting Terri’s death, and argued that while they believe killing her was the right decision, it also ended up leading to the fall of Roe v. Wade in 2022. The Hastings Center is...

March 31 will mark the 20th anniversary of the death of my sister, Terri Schiavo. In 1990, Terri, age 26, sustained a brain injury under suspicious circumstances while home alone with her husband, Michael Schiavo. Terri’s brain injury affected her ability to swallow, necessitating the use of a feeding tube. Terri did not have a medical directive, so Michael was appointed by the court to be her caretaker, authorized to make all treatment decisions in Terri’s best interest. At that time, my family did not foresee any issues with Michael managing Terri’s care or the medical trust, which was valued...

Newsdump Alert: 143 Reported Dead In Moscow Terrorist Attack (Russia Today)... It was Rush Hudson Limbaugh III who wrote... I am attempting to bring media excellence to you and I must remember this time 19 years ago March 2005 Pope John Paul II was near his passing but in Florida Terri Schiavo... And for the Bushes and the Moderate Republicans out there Karl Rove anyone who disdains Donald J. Trump consider this... "Supporters of assisted dying need to grasp that they will almost certainly get more than they say they want.."... And remembering one of El Rushbo's most famous callers...

PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. — A new law aimed at helping to improve interactions between law enforcement and people with disabilities goes into effect on January 1. SB 784 which is named the ‘Protect Our Loved Ones Act’ allows local police and sheriff departments to develop and maintain databases of people in their communities with developmental, psychological, or other disabilities. The listed conditions also include autism, Alzheimers, dementia, and Down syndrome. A parent or caretaker would have the choice to voluntarily submit someone with a disability to the registry, should their local law enforcement agency create one. Michelle Detwiler with the...

DeSantis has previously expressed his deep admiration for George HW Bush, and is praised by Jeb!Journalist Laura Loomer exposed that Ron DeSantis is set to embark on a fundraising tour hosted by major Bush donors in Texas. Texas billionaire Dick Weekley, who is listed as a host for the September 20th fundraiser in Houston, is a major donor to Texas Speaker Dade Phelan. Phelan recently did the Bush family’s dirty work by impeaching and attempting to remove Texas AG Ken Paxton. AG Paxton was the only state AG that made a serious effort to overturn the 2020 election at the...

House Bill 451 will have its first hearing in the Ohio Senate on Tuesday. The bill, which would affect who decides a person on life support’s fate, was drafted in response to the 2011 stabbing death of local woman, Maria Vera. In particular, the bill would offer protections in the case that spouses were in the middle of a divorce, legal separation or dissolution. It would also take into consideration situations where the victim has a temporary or civil protection order against their family member. In that case, that family member would not be allowed to determine what happens to...

September 11, 2021 Jeb Bush RetweetedToday is a day where a certain former President not being on social media is truly a service to society.— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) September 11, 2021

In 2014, Richard Dawkins, a British evolutionary biologist, author, and a one-time University of Oxford Professor, advised a woman who was pregnant with a Down syndrome baby that she should "Abort it and try again. It would be immoral to bring it into the world if you have the choice."There is no way to quantify the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade ruling to legalize abortion and the effect it has had on our consciences let alone its impact on our culture. It is reasonable to conclude given the remarks like Dawkins that Roe has desensitized us to the meaning of...

The priest who fight valiently alongside Terri Schiavo’s family to protect her right to life has passed away. The Schindler family fought a losing uphill battle against the court system that decided Terri was better off dead than living as a disabled patient. Monsignor Thaddeus F. Malanowski, a retired Brigadier General in the United States Army and who became known as “Terri Schiavo’s priest” during her family’s battle to properly care for her, died on January 23, 2020. He was 97. Bobby Schindler, President of the Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network, said, “Monsignor Ted visited Terri regularly during her...

July 11, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – Vincent Lambert, the disabled man a court ordered to be starved to death in a French hospital, died this morning. After nine days without food and fluids, showing a remarkable will to live despite the cruel death of thirst that doctors had prepared for him, France’s Terri Schiavo departed from this earthly life at 8:24 a.m. on Thursday, July 11. He died of heart failure induced by the malfunction of his kidneys in Reims University Hospital in the room where he had been kept under lock and key for the last six years. Minutes after...

Long before President Donald Trump exposed media corruption by popularizing the term “fake news,” my family was subjected to a battle of deceptive reporting about my sister, Terri Schiavo. One-sided “journalism” continues today, as demonstrated by a recent Tampa Bay Times article titled, “Inside the Terri Schiavo case: Pinellas judge who decided her fate opens up,” by Leonora LaPeter Anton. Ms. Anton writes about Judge George Greer of Pinellas County Florida Circuit Court, who ruled that Terri’s estranged husband and legal guardian, Michael Schiavo, could remove her food and water (via feeding tube). Greer’s decision was enforced on March 18,...

Every year, I write to honor my sister, Terri Schiavo, on March 31st, the anniversary of her death. For those who do not remember, Terri, at the age of 26, experienced a still inexplicable collapse resulting in a severe brain-injury. As a consequence of her brain injury, she was unable to swallow using conventional utensils, and like many Americans required nutrition and hydration by feeding tube in order to live. Terri did not have a medical directive specifying who would make her health care decisions in the event she was incapable of making them herself. Therefore, it was her husband,...

Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush is calling on President Donald Trump to end the “heartless” policy of separating immigrant children from their parents at the U.S. border. “Children shouldn’t be used as a negotiating tool,” Bush tweeted on Monday. “@realDonaldTrump should end this heartless policy and Congress should get an immigration deal done that provides for asylum reform, border security and a path to citizenship for Dreamers.” The failed presidential candidate’s plea came in response to President Trump’s tweet in which he vowed to stop “some of the worst criminals on earth,” from using children to illegally enter the U.S....

The myths about the Terri Schiavo case are repeated so often, it can be a futile effort to keep the story straight. One such myth is that the family somehow edited videos of Terri to make it appear falsely that she was conscious. The latest example of this false claim comes gratuitously in a story on Jahi McMath in the New Yorker:

(CNN)A beautiful boy born 11 months ago is dying in London. The world watches as his parents battle to keep their child alive. Courts will not allow the hospital to release the baby, Charlie Gard, into the parents' custody so they can travel to try an experimental treatment. Across the ocean, many people are appalled or confused, and wondering: Could a similar situation happen in the United States? "It's an absolutely horrific situation," said Claire Fenton-Glynn, a legal scholar at the University of Cambridge. Yet according to some medical ethicists, similar cases happen all the time. The case of Charlie...

FULL TITLE: Terri Schiavo Archives: A Permanent Place at Ave Maria University for Learning Terri Schiavo's Historic Story PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 18, 2017 /Christian Newswire/ -- Terri Schiavo's 2005 death by starvation and dehydration marked the start of America's slide toward treating euthanasia generally, and assisted suicide specifically, as if they were forms of medicine. Knowing the true story of Terri's fight is important for understanding the roots of America's culture of death. Since Terri Schiavo's death, her parents and siblings—Mary and Robert Schindler, and siblings Bobby and Suzanne—have envisioned a supportive, permanent home for the public records that tell the...

Full title: In the nuttiest reach yet, Juan Williams blames Trump for Hillary’s collapse; she’s afraid to hydrate because . . .Juan Williams made the ultimate stretch in an attempt to somehow blame Donald Trump for Hillary Clinton’s collapse on Sunday. On Tuesday’s episode of “The Five” on Fox News, Williams was discussing an interview in which former President Bill Clinton told “CBS This Morning” anchor Charlie Rose his wife “frequently” found herself “severely dehydrated.” Clinton did quickly correct himself to say it did not happen frequently “but on more than one occasion.” Williams found a way to stretch like...

Second, sadly it is religion, including our own, that targets, mostly verbally, and often breeds contempt for gays, lesbians and transgender people. Attacks today on LGBT men and women often plant the seed of contempt, then hatred, which can ultimately lead to violence. *** Even before I knew who perpetrated the mass murders at Pulse, I knew that somewhere in the story there would be a search for religion as motivation. While deranged people do senseless things, all of us observe and judge and act from some kind of religious background. Singling out people for victimization because of their religion,...