(By Richard D. Land, Christian Post Executive Editor) – As I was reading the newspaper this past week, a headline caused a host of memories to come flooding back into my consciousness, “Terri Schiavo’s death 20 years ago sparked lingering debate about death and politics.”
The article noted that this past March 31 marked the 20th anniversary of the death of Terri Schindler Schiavo on March 31, 2005. The “Schiavo case,” as it came to be known, generated a huge “right-to-die” controversy that ultimately involved the then-Governor of Florida Jeb Bush, and his brother, then-President George W. Bush.
In February 1990, Terri Schiavo, then 26, suffered cardiac arrest, resulting in an oxygen-deprived coma. When Schiavo emerged from her coma several months later, she was in a “persistent vegetative state,” which required a feeding tube inserted into her stomach to provide hydration and nutrition. CONTINUE