Terri Schiavo News

In olden days, every village had one: an idiot. Just one, though. A village with too many idiots collected the extra ones and put them on a ship of fools.

It's a dilemma for doctors and relatives. What should be done for patients who can no longer communicate.

More than four years after the death of Terri Schiavo, a University of Virginia law professor is raising questions about the legal and ethical issues surrounding Schiavo's life on a feeding tube.

Maryland had its own Terri Schiavo case in the 1990s, a court battle that led to the state's living will law.

National Right to Life will hold its 37th annual convention in Charlotte this month.

Betsy Carpenter, a volunteer counselor for end-of-life issues and advance care at El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, calls it "the conversation." It's important, it can be terrifying and it looms in the lives of all of us.

Congress should not meddle in the Troy Anthony Davis death penalty case. IN EARLY 2005, in a case of meddling in an issue on which the federal government is supremely unqualified to act, congressional Republicans passed a law conferring the decision on the Terri Schiavo case to the federal courts.

I predict that conservative smashmouth reactions to Judge Sonia Sotomayor will prove to be as painfully memorable to Latino voters as was the searingly sexist Republican grilling of Anita Hill in 1991 to women voters.

This bit of polemic just landed with a thud in my inbox: Mercy for the Terrorist: Death to Terri Schiavo .

State Sen. Jim King , a Jacksonville Republican and 22-year veteran of the Legislature, has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, the lawmaker's longtime spokeswoman said Saturday.

Robyn Blumner Tribune Media Showing off their Average Joe side, former Florida Gov.

The drama currently playing out among bold-faced Republican names in Kentucky is not about the soul of a once-powerful, even dominating and domineering, political party.

Pawn in the Circus of Life Poetry http://www.associatedcontent.comarticle/1732586/pawn_in_the_circus_of_life.html Terri Schiavo was the unfortunate pawn in the middle of a battle between her parents and her husband over whether withdrawal of medical aid following an accident which left her totally incapacitated.

April 16, I attended some of the opening sessions of the Midwest Homeschool Convention at the Duke Energy Center in Cincinnati.

Starting in May, CatholicTV will be airing 2 short films on abortion and euthanasia.

There's more to the defeat of Orlando's commuter rail project than Sen. Paula Dockery's persistence , though that was important.

The Boston Globe is dying this weekend, one way or the other. It probably lingers on a while longer, on life support, a Terri Schiavo of journalism, but this comedy is ending the way it was destined to.

Tonya and Michael Sponseller stand in front of the mural at Beacon of Hope Ministries, a program of the Hanover First Church of God.

Family Research Council Action senior VP Tom McClusky, one of Washington's top antiabortion lobbyists, has tallied a list of setbacks to the antiabortion cause in the first hundred days of the Obama administration.

SPECIAL TO THE TRIBUNE By Marilyn Morenz, BSN, CHPN, Education & Resource Manager - Hospice & Palliative Care Charlotte Region & Laura Ellington, LCSW, LISW-CP Director of Clinical Services - Hospice of the Carolina Foothills Choosing the types of treatments desired when patients are diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, or when they become ...