Husband Loses Round in Feeding-Tube Case
A judge ruled that the parents of a severely brain-damaged woman at the center of a right-to-die battle can seek to have the woman’s husband removed as her guardian.
Bob and Mary Schindler, parents of Terri Schiavo, asked Circuit Judge George W. Greer to appoint the woman’s brother or sister as guardian instead of her husband, Michael Schiavo.
Michael Schiavo had asked for the Schindlers’ request to be dismissed, but Greer refused. Terri Schiavo suffered brain damage in 1990 when her heart stopped.
Doctors have said she has no hope for recovery from a vegetative state.
Her husband has fought to have her feeding tube removed, saying his wife did not want to be kept alive artificially.
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