- ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (Reuters)
- A U.S. federal judge ordered a hearing on Monday afternoon to consider
a request to have feeding resumed for Terri Schiavo, the severely brain-damaged
Florida woman at the heart of a politically charged right-to-die case.
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- U.S. District Judge James Whittemore announced the 3
p.m. hearing hours after a lawyer for Schiavo's parents filed a request
with the court in Tampa, Florida, for the resumption of feeding for the
41-year-old woman, whose feeding tube was removed on a Florida state court's
order on Friday.
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- That request and a lawsuit on the case were filed in
the early hours of Monday after the U.S. Congress rushed through special
legislation to get the case into federal courts.
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- State courts have declared that Schiavo has been in a
persistent vegetative state since suffering a heart attack in 1990 and
have supported her husband's stance that she would not have wanted to live
in that condition.
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