(Dr. Robert George / Deseret News) – Twenty years ago, Terri Schiavo, a severely disabled woman reliant on hospital care and a feeding tube, died when her husband made the decision to deny her nutrition and hydration.
Schiavo’s natal family did everything they could to prevent her from being starved to death in her hospital bed. President George W. Bush, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and countless others across the country advocated on her behalf and sought various remedies.
However, her husband, although he was cohabiting with another woman by whom he had fathered two children, was afforded the legal right to decide her fate. This was a key moment in the advancement of what the late Pope John Paul II described as “the culture of death.” CONTINUE