Schiavo Case Goes To Federal Judge; Parents Want Feeding Resumed

From: The Washington Post | Date: March 22, 2005| Author: Manuel Roig-Franzia | Copyright information

-- Terri Schiavo's parents, buoyed by a law that Congress worked through the night to pass and that President Bush rose from his bed to sign, pleaded with a federal judge here Monday to resume her tube- feeding before she dies.

Attorneys for Robert and Mary Schindler argued that allowing their brain-damaged daughter to die before the federal courts can review her case would violate Congress's will and lead to the "damnation of her soul" because it would conflict with her religious bel...

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