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20 years later: Terri Schiavo’s impact on the right-to-life movement

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It’s been 20 years since Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube was removed, initiating the process of dehydration and starvation that would lead to her death 13 days later.

With the approach of the 20th anniversary of her passing on March 31, 2005, Schiavo’s brother Bobby Schindler said “it doesn’t get any easier thinking about those events,” particularly “having to witness my sister die such a terribly unjust and inhumane death.”

“The only thing keeping her alive was the same thing that keeps us all alive, which is food and hydration. Terri had difficulty swallowing because of a brain injury and therefore needed a feeding tube in order to receive her food and hydration. But it was removed.”

In an interview with “EWTN News Nightly” anchor Tracy Sabol, Schindler detailed the inhumane way his sister passed. He said: “It’s something if we do to an animal, it would be criminal.”

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Heroic virtue? A devout woman?

I don’t know?
I don’t think she has any chance of being canonized. She was incapacitated at the time. She was raised Catholic but I have no idea how devout she was. I know her parents were practicing.
 
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I don’t think she has any chance of being canonized. She was incapacitated at the time. She was raised Catholic but I have no idea how devout she was. I know her parents were practicing.
According to her parents, she was devout.
 
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According to her parents, she was devout.
I read differently. There are all sort of stories out there before she became ill. While she claimed her faith, she did not always practice it. It does not make her bad, but it’s common. Towards the end, there were all sorts of perspectives to protect her life and to exterminate it. No doubt what happened was criminal and cruel. Not only to her but to her family that was willing to care and support her. But as far as canonization, I don’t see it happening because of these circumstances.
 
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I read differently. There are all sort of stories out there before she became ill. While she claimed her faith, she did not always practice it. It does not make her bad, but it’s common. Towards the end, there were all sorts of perspectives to protect her life and to exterminate it. No doubt what happened was criminal and cruel. Not only to her but to her family that was willing to care and support her. But as far as canonization, I don’t see it happening because of these circumstances.
Ah, I see. Only God knew her heart. May she rest in his endless love.
 
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