WorldNetDaily: Judge extends stay keeping Schiavo alive

Yes! Judge George Greer extended the stay until March 18, 2005 on the basis of a number of motions that Terri's parents made, and also a motion that the Florida Department of Children and Families made.

The various motions that the Schindlers and the DCF have filed, are these:

1. The Schindlers want to test Terri with a new neurological method that is now said to be a very accurate predictor of who will, and who will not, snap out of a long-term coma. It's not perfect--nothing short of God ever is--but it's the best medical test anyone has.
2. The Schindlers also have on the table what is known as a writ of quo warranto. That Latin phrase literally translates as "on what authority." At issue: Michael Schiavo has abrogated his authority to act on Terri's behalf, because he has withheld care and therapy whenever he could, and has been living with another woman for ten years and sired two children on her.
3. The DCF is playing very close to the vest their reasons for intervening. But tellingly, they reminded the judge that they had a job to do to investigate allegations of abuse of the disabled and other classes of "vulnerable adults." They wanted sixty days to investigate what someone alleges to be abuse--probably abuse of Terri by Michael, on the basis of those bone scans that I have mentioned previously.

The WorldNetDaily article lists several instances of questionable conduct by Michael Schiavo and also has a public-policy statement by Joni Eareckson Tada, "Contemporary Christian Music" artist--and quadriplegic. Her warning on the bad public policy of removing a feeding tube under these circumstances is alone worth the time to follow the link.