Terri Schiavo Update
Bush bids to save feed-tube woman
US President George W Bush has signed a law designed to force doctors to keep a severely brain-damaged woman alive.The legislation was passed by both houses of Congress after an impassioned debate and approved by the president in the early hours of Monday.It calls for a federal court to review the case of Terri Schiavo, who has been in a vegetative state for 15 years.Congress intervened after a Florida judge allowed her feeding tube to be removed at her husband's request.Mrs Schiavo is expected to die within two weeks unless the Florida ruling, made on Friday, is overturned and the tube reinserted.
US President George W Bush has signed a law designed to force doctors to keep a severely brain-damaged woman alive.The legislation was passed by both houses of Congress after an impassioned debate and approved by the president in the early hours of Monday.It calls for a federal court to review the case of Terri Schiavo, who has been in a vegetative state for 15 years.Congress intervened after a Florida judge allowed her feeding tube to be removed at her husband's request.Mrs Schiavo is expected to die within two weeks unless the Florida ruling, made on Friday, is overturned and the tube reinserted.
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