Florida law to keep up feeding of woman in 14-year coma "unconstitutional," says judge
AFP, May, 2004
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TAMPA, United States (AFP) — A law that ordered a feeding tube to be reinserted into a comatose woman is unconstitutional, a Florida judge has ruled, ordering state governor Jeb Bush to be restrained from imposing any further measures to influence the law.
A May 5 ruling on "Terri's Law," drawn up with Bush's intervention specifically for the case of 40-year-old Terri Schiavo, was released to media Thursday.
Schiavo, who is in care in a West Central Florida hospice, has been comatose since 1990.
The Florida governor is to "be and is hereby restrained from exercising any authority or ordering any conduct" to keep the law alive, said the 22-page ruling by Pinellas County Circuit Judge H. Douglas Baird.
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Schiavo went into a coma following a heart attack in mid-1990.
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