Apparently the judge set the date for her being starved to death: March 18th.
But hopefully:
Updates on Terri SchiavoTALLAHASSEE, Florida, March 9, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) ? A Florida legislature subcommittee passed a bill 7-4 today that seeks to limit the ability of a guardian to withdraw food and fluids from an incapacitated person. It must still pass to the House floor for a vote. A similar measure was also proposed in the Senate.
Lead sponsor, Rep. Dennis Baxley, R-Ocala, said he hopes the bill will save Terri Schiavo. ?If I have my way, we'll get it passed by the 18th (of March),? he said, as reported by orlandosentinel.com. March 18 is the date set by Florida Judge George W. Greer to have Terri?s feeding tube removed.
Greer meanwhile will decide today whether to grant a stay of Terri Schiavo?s starvation order, to allow the state?s Department of Children and Families to investigate abuse allegations against Terri?s husband and legal guardian, Michael Schiavo.
The World Federation of Catholic Medical Associations (FIAMC) issued a warning Sunday that allowing Terri?s starvation to proceed would ?open the floodgates? to euthanasia of the disabled.
?If Terri, an innocent person, can be condemned to death, every person whose life will be considered of insufficient ?quality? by a guardian or the court will be in danger of euthanasia performed by withdrawal of basic and ordinary care,? warned FIAMC spokesman Gian Luigi Gigli, M.D., in a release.
?The importance of this case goes beyond this deplorable circumstance,? he said. ?It will open the floodgates to euthanasia in the United States, at all ages, without even a legislative decision.?
?Following the teaching of Pope John Paul II and the evidence of medical sciences, we believe that no human being, including those in the permanent vegetative state, can be denied the respect due to a human person by provision of food and water, without which any person, regardless of his/her state of health, would be condemned to death.?
?Such a perversion of medicine will be the source of discrimination against other human beings, with enormous risks for human rights and democracy,? said the FIAMC statement.
In addition, an Empire Journal analysis pointed out that the legal firm representing the St. Petersburg Catholic diocese where Terri lives financially supported Judge Greer?s campaign for re-election to the bench.
Life Decisions International (LDI) President Douglas Scott criticized the Florida Catholic Conference and St. Petersburg bishop Robert N. Lynch for not being more vocal in support of Terri?s bid to live.
?Where is this Catholic ?leader? when one of his parishioners needs him the most?, Scott said. ?Every member of the clergy, Catholic and non-Catholic alike, should be pounding the pulpit every Sunday, insisting that Terri?s life be spared. Every member of the clergy should be speaking out about Terri every day until this matter is resolved in Terri?s favor. This is not the time for cowardice, complacency or weakness. Terri?s life depends on it. Any member of the clergy who does not do all he can to save Terri?s life is party to any disaster that befalls her?.
Terri Schiavo, the subject of an ongoing legal battle between her parents, Robert and Mary Schindler, and Terri?s estranged husband and legal guardian, Michael Schiavo, is slated for starvation beginning March 18.