Parents Can’t Intervene in Adult Daughter’s Right to Die Case

“An appeals court said Wednesday the parents of a woman at the center of a bitter right-to-die case may not intervene in the legal battle over a state law keeping her alive. “Terri’s Law,” passed in October, allowed Gov. Jeb Bush to order the reinsertion of a feeding tube keeping Terri Schiavo alive. She has been in a persistent vegetative state for 14 years after collapsing from a chemical imbalance.

The 2nd District Court of Appeal upheld Circuit Judge W. Douglas Baird’s ruling denying an attempt by Bob and Mary Schindler to join the fight over the law’s constitutionality.

The appeals court didn’t issue an opinion with the ruling.

Terri Schiavo’s husband, Michael Schiavo, is suing the governor to have the law overturned. Bush is defending the law and the Schindlers wanted to join him as a party to the lawsuit.

The state Supreme Court will hear oral arguments August 31.”

As reported on CNN.com.

by Rob Hagy