Federal appeals court OKs Schiavo review
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-03-30 13:51

A US federal appeals court early Wednesday agreed to consider a petition for a new hearing on whether to reconnect Terri Schiavo's feeding tube.

Mary Schindler, Terri Schiavo's mother, gestures as she talks to the media outside the Woodside Hospice where Schiavo is a patient on Tuesday, March 29, 2005 in Pinellas Park, Fla. Schindler asked Michael Schiavo to give her daughter back. At left is Bob Schindler, Terri's Schiavo's father.[AP]

The ruling by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals came as the severely brain-damaged woman entered her 13th day without nourishment.

Schiavo's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, have maintained that Schiavo would want to be kept alive and have asked the courts to intervene. Schiavo's husband, Michael, insists he is carrying out her wishes by having the feeding tube pulled.

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