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Schiavo case to Supreme Court
23/03/2005 19:22 - (SA)
Washington - Attorneys for the parents of a severely brain-damaged Florida woman who has spent the past 15 years in a persistent vegetative state said on Wednesday they would take their efforts to have her feeding tube re-inserted to the US Supreme Court.
The tube was removed five days ago, as Terri Schiavo's husband maintains that she did not want to be kept alive artificially.
"We will be filing the appeal with the US Supreme Court later today," an official with attorney David Gibbs's office told AFP.
The appeal, which was widely expected, comes after the efforts of Schiavo's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, repeatedly did not prevail in Florida courts.
Schiavo has now been without a feeding tube for five days since it was disconnected on Friday. Doctors estimate her time of survival in such circumstances at two weeks. She has been in a persistent vegetative state for 15 years since heart failure caused severe brain damage.
Her husband, Michael Schiavo, has said she should be allowed to die and that was her wish, which he said she expressed in the past to him and some of his relatives. But for seven years, her parents have fought efforts to remove her from life support, insisting she can get better.
- AFP
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