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The Case of Terri Schiavo: Ethics at the End of Life. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books. ISBN 978-1-59102-398-2. Silent Witness: The Untold Story of Terri Schiavo's Death by Mark Fuhrman (2005), ISBN 0-06-085337-9; Fighting for Dear Life: The Untold Story of Terri Schiavo and What It Means for All of Us by David C. Gibbs III (2006), ISBN 0-7642-0243-X
The memo suggested the Schiavo case offered "a great political issue" that would appeal to the party's base and could be used against US Senator Bill Nelson, a Democrat from Florida who would go on to win his bid for reelection in 2006, because he had refused to co-sponsor the Palm Sunday Compromise. [17]
Two polls conducted in the days following the removal of Schiavo's feeding tube on March 18, 2005, showed that a large majority of Americans believed that Michael Schiavo should have had the authority to make decisions on behalf of his wife, Terri Schiavo, and that the United States Congress overstepped its bounds with its intervention in the case.
Terri Schiavo was a Florida woman who, after collapsing from cardiac arrest in 1990 at age 26, entered a persistent vegetative state. Her plight became the subject of legal proceedings and intense ...
The Palm Sunday Compromise, formally known as the Act for the relief of the parents of Theresa Marie Schiavo (Pub. L. 109–3 (text)), is an Act of Congress passed on March 21, 2005, to allow the case of Terri Schiavo to be moved into a federal court.
In this file photo, George Felos, then the attorney for Michael Schiavo, Terri Schiavo's husband, talks to the media after hearing the results of her autopsy report June 15, 2005 in Dunedin, Florida.
This case was controversial due to a disagreement between Schiavo's immediate family members and her husband. In the Quinlan and Cruzan cases, the family was able to make a unanimous decision on the state of their daughters. Schiavo suffered from a cardiac arrest which led to her collapse and soon after began to have trouble breathing.
A federal judge did not issue a ruling following a hearing Tuesday at which five unions sought a temporary restraining order to keep the Trump administration from carrying out mass layoffs across ...