"Court challenge to order on brain-damaged woman expected this week"
by the associated press is an age old story in it self. About a women named Terri
Schiavo whom which is in what doctors call a "persistent vegetative state"
otherwise known as a coma, which has not changed in the last decade, due to
heart failure from a chemical imbalance in early 1990.The battle between two
sides of her family one who wants to take Shiavo off of life support and let her
die a peaceful death. While the other side wants to keep her alive because they
believe she is still going to wake up. Who is right and who is wrong? Well
according to the Florida Supreme Court Shiavo's husband is right and her
feeding tube was removed and doctors said she should pass painlessly and
without trauma in a matter of weeks. Well days later the Florida legislature Jeb
Bush ordered the reinsertion of the feeding tube, clearly a violation of Shiavo's
constitutional right to fefuse medical attention. Additionally it shows a breach of
conduct in the checks and balances of the United States. After all who is to say
the legislature has the power to break a court order deciding whether or not a
family member has or does not have the right to decide their own families
demise in this situation and what will stop it from happening again. As a result
Shiavo's parents and husband are now once again involved in a debate whether
or not to keep their daughter and wife on life support.
It all began back in early 1990, when Terri Shiavo suffered heart
complications due to a chemical imbalence. Well since that day she has been in
a vegetable like state. Doctors say she has no brain activity and no signs of ever
regaining conciousnes and Shiavo's husband agrees with them on the removal
of her feeding tube. However, Shiavo's parents are a different story, they do not
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