WorldNetDaily: Terri Schiavo backers hopeful

This article is a summary of the current standing in the case. While Judge Greer did extend the deadline for the removal of the feeding tube, he framed it as an order to remove that tube by a date certain. (Adobe Reader users and others who have PDF viewers installed may read the order here.) Nevertheless, this gives Bob and Mary Schindler, the host of activists allied with them, and Florida's Department of Children and Families twenty days to pursue their separate legal and investigative strategies to save Terri's life. To summarize:

1. Bob and Mary Schindler want to schedule a new kind of neurological exam with a very high predictive value in determining which patients, who have lost their ability to speak, can regain it. Remember that this is all that Terri Schindler-Schiavo has lost. Rare video footage clearly shows that she is in full possession of her other faculties.
2. The Schindlers are also seeking to show that Michael Schiavo has not and ought not have any authority to act for Terri, because he has an inherent conflict of interest, in that he has moved in with, and sired children on, another woman in the interim.
3. The Department of Children and Families are very much concerned that Michael Schiavo might in fact be guilty of spousal abuse, spousal neglect, and just possibly attempted murder.
4. Finally, Florida's legislature, at the urging of the Governor, are determined to rewrite "Terri's Law" and force another hearing before the Florida Supreme Court. Some activists even talk hopefully of making it a Federal offense to remove hydration or feeding without the written consent of the patient involved. Remember that all that Michael Schiavo has is verbal consent--and he just might be lying about that.

I still am disappointed that, in fifteen years, the Schindlers never thought to hire a private detective to investigate Michael Schiavo, seeing that the Pinellas County Sheriff would not investigate him properly. But clearly this case has a new lease on life.