ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge ordered a hearing on Monday afternoon to consider a request to have feeding resumed for Terri Schiavo, the severely brain-damaged Florida woman at the heart of a politically charged right-to-die case.
U.S. District Judge James Whittemore announced the 3 p.m. hearing hours after a lawyer for Schiavo's parents filed a request with the court in Tampa, Florida, for the resumption of feeding for the 41-year-old woman, whose feeding tube was removed on a Florida state court's order on Friday.
That request and a lawsuit on the case were filed in the early hours of Monday after the U.S. Congress rushed through special legislation to get the case into federal courts.
State courts have declared that Schiavo has been in a persistent vegetative state since suffering a heart attack in 1990 and have supported her husband's stance that she would not have wanted to live in that condition.
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