Ruling Halts Feeding of Comatose Woman
A comatose woman, unable to eat and at the center of a legal battle between her husband and parents, will receive no more nutrition through a feeding tube after a court gave the action final approval.
Terri Schiavo’s parents wanted to keep the feeding tube in place, but her husband claims she would want to die. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, who hears emergency matters from Florida, refused to intervene after an appeals court ruling.
Schiavo, 37, has been in a coma for more than a decade after suffering a heart attack caused by a potassium imbalance.
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