Terri Schiavo's family carries on fight against euthanasia

Published: 2006-07-05

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (CNS) -- Bobby Schindler, brother of Terri Schindler Schiavo, said his family continues the fight they began to preserve her life so others who are medically dependent will not suffer the same fate as his sister. Schiavo, the brain-damaged Florida woman who became the center of a highly publicized debate on end-of-life issues, died March 31, 2005, about two weeks after a court ordered her feeding tube be removed. The Schindler family has established the Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation -- www.terrisfight.org -- and also recently started a political action group dedicated to changing laws relating to the rights of those with disabilities. "I don't know why Terri's case made so much news because, sadly, this kind of thing has been happening for years," said Schindler in a workshop during the National Right to Life Committee convention in Nashville June 22-24. "But if God wanted to use Terri to expose this dangerous movement, then for that I will accept what happened to her," he told convention participants.

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