Terri Schiavo

Michael Schiavo's book about the fight to let his brain-damaged wife die, called "Terri: The Truth," is to be released today, the day before a book by Terri Schiavo's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, "A Life That Matters: The Legacy of Terri Schiavo, a Lesson For Us All," is released. Friday will be the first anniversary of Terri Schiavo's death, 13 days after her feeding tube was removed.

Dr. Ronald Cranford, a neurologist and medical ethicist whose positions in thorny right-to-die cases drew both praise and vilification, has died. He was 65. Cranford died Wednesday at a hospice in the Minneapolis suburb of Edina after a 30-month battle with kidney cancer.

Re "Judge Halts Moussaoui Terror Trial," March 14 Is there anything the Bush administration can do correctly? Misleading Congress and the American public into this war by cherry picking intelligence; the Katrina disaster; passing laws in special congressional sessions that affect only one person (Terri Schiavo); warrantless wiretaps of American citizens. Now we have Zacarias Moussaoui, a known terrorist, on trial, served up on a silver platter. Slam dunk. And the federal prosecutors have jeopardized the case through incompetence and ineptitude.

The U.S. Supreme Court refused to get involved Monday in the case of Terri Schiavo, clearing the way for the husband of the severely brain-damaged Florida woman to have her feeding tube unhooked by a state court order. Barring an unlikely change of heart by Florida judges, Schiavo, now 41, could die soon in a nursing home -- nearly 15 years after she lapsed into a vegetative state. "It's judicial homicide. They want to murder her," Robert Schindler, Schiavo's father, told reporters Monday.

The long legal battle over a severely brain-damaged woman was extended at least one more day Tuesday, when a Florida appeals court cleared the way for the removal of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube, only to have another judge order it kept in place. The emergency stay, issued by Pinellas Circuit Judge George W. Greer, expires at 5 p.m. today. David C.

A Florida judge Wednesday afternoon ordered the tube delivering food and water to Terri Schiavo kept in place another 48 hours, as Gov. Jeb Bush pledged to do all he could to keep the incapacitated and brain-damaged woman alive. In explaining his ruling extending the one-day stay he had issued Tuesday, Pinellas County Circuit Judge George W.

Fifteen years to the day after Terri Schiavo suffered severe brain damage, leaving her in a persistent vegetative state, a judge Friday ordered that the feeding tube keeping her alive be removed in three weeks. According to Pinellas Circuit Judge George W. Greer's instructions, Schiavo's husband, Michael, should disconnect the tube at 1 p.m. March 18. Schiavo contends that his wife did not want to live through artificial means.

Florida's social services agency and Republican state lawmakers acted on two fronts Wednesday to block the March 18 removal of a feeding tube for a woman at the center of a contentious right-to-die case.

A judge ruled Thursday that Florida's social services agency cannot intervene to delay the removal of the feeding tube keeping brain-damaged Terri Schiavo alive. The Department of Children & Families had asked for a 60-day delay in the removal of the tube, set for March 18. The agency said it wanted time to investigate allegations of abuse and neglect against the woman's husband, Michael Schiavo. But Circuit Judge George W.

A state appeals court in Tampa refused to block the removal of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube, shifting the stage in the legal battle over the brain-damaged woman to the state Legislature and an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. Barring new roadblocks, Michael Schiavo could have his wife's feeding tube removed at 1 p.m. Friday. Judge George Greer gave him permission to remove the tube, against the wishes of her parents, Bob and Mary Schindler. They planned to appeal to the U.S.