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Michael Schiavo, a name that has been at the center of several high-profile controversies, continues to intrigue the public even today. His story is a mix of legal battles, family disputes, and media attention that has kept him in the spotlight for years. If you're wondering where is Michael Schiavo today, this article will provide a comprehensive overview of his current whereabouts, his past, and the events that have shaped his life. Michael Schiavo is perhaps best known for his role in one of the most controversial cases in modern American history—the Terri Schiavo case. His decisions and actions during...

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Twenty years ago today, Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube was withdrawn with court approval, commencing a cruel deprivation of sustenance that resulted in her death by dehydration 13 days later.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...

A hospital accused of intentionally killing a teenage girl with Down syndrome has lost its last chance to dismiss, and the case will now move forward, in what her family says is a “first-of-its-kind” jury trial. Earlier this year, the tragic death of Grace Schara came to light. In 2021, Grace died at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital; she had been given a do-not-resuscitate (DNR) order without her or her family’s knowledge or consent; additionally, she was administered a cocktail of drugs — Precedex, Lorazepam, and Morphine — which are known to cause hypoxia, or low levels of oxygen in body tissues....

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was ongoing fear that those in the disability community would be discriminated against and have worse outcomes than their able-bodied peers. Tragically, these fears would turn out to be true, as people with disabilities were at least twice as likely to die. Now, a new study has revealed that patients with Down syndrome, specifically, were increasingly given do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders at much higher rates than the able-bodied population. In a press release, Stephanie Santoro, assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, director of quality improvement research for the Down Syndrome Program...

M.V. has refused food and fluid for 16 days. The father of the Calgary autistic woman, who was scheduled to die by euthanasia on February 1, withdrew his appeal of a court decision that prevented his daughter from dying by euthanasia, because the case is essentially moot. Meghan Grant reported for CBC news that: A Calgary father fighting through the courts to keep his 27-year-old daughter from accessing medical assistance in dying (MAID) has abandoned his appeal, 14 days after she stopped eating and drinking. The woman, who can only be identified as M.V. because of a publication ban, was...

UK actress and disability advocate Liz Carr is making headlines this week for her new documentary “Better Off Dead,” which reveals some of the dangers of assisted suicide and euthanasia (often referred to as ‘MAiD’, or medical assistance in dying). A clip from the film shows Carr’s highly unsettling interaction with Dr. Ellen Wiebe, an abortionist and euthanasia doctor in Canada. Wiebe, who has previously said that euthanasia is her “most rewarding work,” doubles down on that statement as she appears gleeful in discussing her role in killing human beings. “I love my job,” she says of helping people to...

Indi Gregory, an eight-month-old baby girl who was taken off life support at the weekend, has died overnight, a lawyer for her family said on Monday. Her parents, Dean Gregory and Claire Staniforth, had fought to overturn multiple court rulings on their daughter's treatment, but were not successful. Indi, who was born with a rare genetic condition, had been transferred from the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham to a hospice on Sunday when her life support was withdrawn. Mr Gregory said: "Indi's life ended at 01.45am. Claire and I are angry, heartbroken and ashamed. "The NHS and the courts not...

In a heartbreaking loss today, a UK appeals court has ruled that a hospital can remove a newborn baby girl’s life support without her parents’ consent. As LifeNews has reported, a Vatican hospital has stepped up and agreed to provide care for 8-month-old baby Indi Gregory, where a British court ruled her life support could be revoked even though her parents are fighting for her life. But that was not enough for the parents of this little girl to get a British appellate court to rule in their favor. Indi suffers from a rare degenerative mitochondrial disease and has been...

Disclaimer: "Who Should Survive" was produced in 1971. The language used in this film to refer to and describe Baby Doe was acceptable 40 to 50 years ago. We recognize that is no longer the case and that such language is now disrespectful and offensive.We urge the use of "people first" language and more respectful words to describe people with disabilities in all instances, in both spoken and written language. This film, however, is historical, and the language and terminology used throughout the film has been left intact to retain the historical context in which it was produced. Eunice Kennedy...

Dylan Matthews is a senior correspondent and head writer for Vox's Future Perfect section and has worked at Vox since 2014. Vox published an interview by Matthews on May 30, 2023 with philosopher Peter Singer who is known as a father of the animal rights movement. Singer is possibly the most influencial philosopher of our day and, among other things, supports euthanasia and infanticide. Matthews states that the philosophy aspoused by Peter Singer has greatly affected him. I believe that people are too polite about Singer's philosophy. Singer has a eugenic philosophy and his writings are dangerous. Singer justifies that...

— A Wisconsin couple filed a lawsuit Tuesday against a Catholic hospital which gave a dangerous combination of drugs to their daughter and then refused to resuscitate her shortly before her death. Grace Schara, a 19-year old with Down syndrome, died at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital (Ascension Health) in October 2021 after being administered a sedative, an anxiety medication, and morphine, which are known to hasten severe hypoxia when taken together, according to the lawsuit. Grace was already sedated on maximum doses of Precedex the morning before her death when she was given Lorazepam, which “can increase the risk of serious...

A woman who survived a brutal rape is begging for permission to be euthanized in India, saying there is no hope for justice. The 30-year-old woman, who lives in Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh, was allegedly raped by her stepson and her husband’s friends. Though she gave the information to police, and a first information report (FIR) has been filed, no arrests have been made. Now, with her alleged rapists threatening her, she is begging the president to allow her to undergo euthanasia. “I have lost all my hope in justice,” she wrote in a letter to President Draupadi Murmu. “Despite...

A woman in Colombia seeking euthanasia despite not having a terminal illness will be allowed to die, a judge has ruled. Martha Sepúlveda would have been the first person in the country to be euthanized without a terminal illness until a medical committee decided earlier this month that she no longer qualified. Sepúlveda was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig’s disease, in 2018, and began considering suicide once she could no longer move her legs. Originally, she was scheduled to die on October 10, a Sunday, which she chose because it was the day her family attended...

March 25, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – A group of U.S. lawyers have warned that rationing health care based on disability or age during the coronavirus outbreak violates federal civil rights law. “Federal law requires that decisions regarding the critical care of patients during the current crisis not discriminate on the basis of disability or age,” lawyers representing the Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund and the Thomas More Society wrote in a March 23 memorandum. “In this respect, anticipated longevity or quality of life are inappropriate issues for consideration.” “Decisions must be made solely on clinical factors as to which patients have...

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...

Supporters of an 11-month-old girl in Texas who has been hospitalized since her February birth celebrated an appeals court decision on Friday that delayed a judge’s previous ruling that granted the hospital permission to remove her from life support. The move is just the latest in a back-and-forth battle between medical staff at Cook Children’s Medical Center and the family of Tinslee Lewis, a baby who doctors say is in pain and “will never improve.” “This gives us so much hope for Tinslee,” Kimberlyn Schwarts, a spokeswoman for Texas Right to Life, which has been advocating for Tinslee and her...

The motion by Cook Children’s Hospital for a new judge in the case of 10-month-old Texas girl on life support was granted just days before her life support was scheduled to be removed on December 10. In a hearing yesterday, according to ABC News, the newly appointed judge, Sandee Bryan Marion of Texas’ Fourth Court of Appeals, “said at the hearing in Fort Worth that she would decide by at least Jan. 2 if Cook Children’s Medical Center could remove life support.” At that hearing, “Attorneys for the hospital and the girl’s mother then agreed that if Marion denies the...