Mar 31, 2015 · Ten years ago, Schiavo—a severely brain-damaged Florida woman—became a national symbol for how not to die in America. At its heart, the case was a family squabble. Schiavo had been kept alive...

The Terri Schiavo case was a series of court and legislative actions in the United States from 1998 to 2005, regarding the care of Theresa Marie Schiavo (née Schindler) (/ ˈ ʃ aɪ v oʊ /; December 3, 1963 – March 31, 2005), a woman in an irreversible persistent vegetative state.

2 days ago · Terri Schiavo’s tragic saga mobilized a large contingent from the prolife movement in the U.S. and overseas, which, of course, meant certain politicians would follow their lead. We saw a prominent senator and transplant surgeon, Bill Frist, violate basic medical ethics when he stood on the floor of the Senate to make diagnostic claims about ...

Terri Schiavo. Her name is seared into the national memory as a face of the right-to-life movement, but many are now too young to remember her witness. This site serves as a tribute to Terri’s memory and a resource for those looking to understand what her life was like, what happened to her, and why we should remember.

Dec 6, 2023 · A new documentary about Terri Schiavo, a Florida woman who was in a persistent vegetative state for 15 years before her death in 2005, is shining a new light on the familial legal battle that...

Apr 2, 2015 · Ten years ago, Schiavo—a severely brain-damaged Florida woman—became a national symbol for how not to die in America. At its heart, the case was a family squabble. Schiavo had been kept alive by a feeding tube after collapsing in 1990 from full cardiac arrest that deprived her brain of oxygen.

Terri’s parents and siblings, supported by hundreds of thousands who witnessed to Terri’s right to life in the years before her court-ordered death, created the Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network to serve medically vulnerable persons at risk of being marginalized rather than supported in love.

4 days ago · Twenty years later, the Terri Schiavo Life and Hope Network is commemorating her death in three ways, a press release from the organization reports. First, the organization announced the building of the Terri Schiavo Home for the Brain Injured , which will be located within Catholic Health International’s Saint Padre Pio Home for the Relief ...

Dec 13, 2023 · Why it matters: "Between Life & Death: Terri Schiavo's Story" explores how the pro-life movement used Schiavo to further their aims and examines how her right-to-die case laid "the groundwork for a post-Roe America."

Oct 28, 2003 · Here is a look at Terri Schiavo's physical behavior and what both sides say about it. _ CURTIS KRUEGER. What do these behaviors mean? THE BALLOON. A videotape of Schiavo from 2002 (available at...