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October 23,21 ig cyboi f A 'liursday, October 23, 2003 SCI-TECH THE BATTALION Woman’s right to die being disputed in Florida Ivan Flores • THE BATTAP lid really enlarge tfef the chip (those wilt io not have it -Iw/ti* positive forcjteirgsfr lii iv/ isftMbiul By Mitch Stacy THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CLEARWATER, Fla. — Legal scholars pre dicted Wednesday that Gov. Jeb Bush’s inter- J/ention in a bitter right-to-die case involving a irain-damaged woman would be ruled unconsti- (utional, and the husband’s lawyer angrily com- lained the woman was “abducted from her leathbed.” It was just an absolute trampling of her per- ional rights and her dignity,” _ leorge Felos, the attorney for ichael Schiavo, said on NBC’s Today.” “We believe that a art sooner or later, we hope iooner, will find this law to be iconstitutional.” Legal scholars also decried the love as an extraordinary end run iund the courts. “In my view the 1 is plainly unconstitutional,” d University of Florida law pro cessor Joseph Little. Terri Schiavo, 39, has been in a lat doctors call a “persistent egetative state” since 1990, when ler heart stopped because of a kmical imbalance. Her eyes are open, but dec ors say she has no consciousness. Her parents. Bob and Mary Schindler, have fought to keep her alive and say she still could recover. Michael Schiavo contends that she had told him she would rather die than be kept alive artificially. Her feeding tube was removed by court order last Wednesday at the insistence of her husband. The case is one of the nation’s longest and most contentious right-to-die cases, pitting members of the same family against each other. On Tuesday, the Legislature rushed through a hill designed to save Schiavo’s life, and Bush tjuickly invoked the law and ordered the feeding tube reinserted. A hospital then began giving the woman fluids intravenously to prepare her body for the resumption of feeding. A judge later rejected an initial request by Michael Schiavo to block Bush’s order but said he would consider it again after both sides file briefs, j Felos said that Terri Schiavo suffered signs of organ failure Tuesday and the reintroduction of lids after a week without food or water could lust make her suffer more. A Morton Plant u Let us err on the part of not condemning this woman to a painful death that she can feel 99 — Anna Cowin Republican senator ch: nr »? the Student nsen atives nsgendered ss how the ganizations others. 23 Hospital spokeswoman said Wednesday she could not release any information on Schiavo. Family members complained Wednesday that they have not been allowed into the hospital to see her. Despite the state’s intervention, Michael Schiavo is still her legal guardian and he has not allowed them to visit. Felos did not return a call seeking comment Wednesday, but he told NBC that Michael Schiavo was “deeply troubled, angry and sad dened that his wife’s wishes have become a polit ical pingpong.” He said it was “an absolute horrible tragedy for Terri Schiavo, literally being abducted from her deathbed and her death process.” The bill sent to Bush was designed to be as narrow as pos sible. It is limited to cases in which the patient left no living will, is in a persistent vegetative state and has had nutrition and hydration tubes removed, and where a family member has chal lenged the removal. Legal experts widely agreed that the governor and Legislature went too far. “This particular administration has not yet understood why we have separation of powers,” said former Florida Supreme Court Justice Gerald Kogan. “They seem to believe that the governor and the Legislature can do whatever they want and the courts should not interfere and that’s not right.” Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe said: “I’ve never seen a case in which the state legisla ture treats someone’s life as a political football in quite the way this is being done.” Bush and the Republican-led Legislature have a reputation for being at odds with the courts. They have clashed over abortion and the death penalty. Bush and lawmakers who supported the legis lation said they had a legitimate reason to inter vene in the case to save Schiavo’s life. “Let us err on the part of not condemning this woman to a painful death that she can feel,” said GOP Sen. Anna Cowin. During the years she has been in a vegetative state, her parents reported their daughter laughed, cried, smiled and responded to their voices. But the court-appointed doctor said the noises and facial expressions she made were reflexes. NEWS IN BRIEF Researchers 'on right path' to breast cancer vaccine CHICAGO (AP) — After five major surgeries fora particularly aggressive form of breast can cer, Patricia Thomas called the little pinprick she received in a government study the simplest procedure she’s undergone. That pinprick above her knee was an experi- vaccine derived from tiny bits of tumor that researchers hope will keep the 70- year-old Arlington, Va., woman’s cancer from relapsing. 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