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WASHINGTON----The American Center
for Law and Justice (ACLJ), which represented the parents of Terri
Schiavo in a legal battle to keep their daughter alive, said Terri's
estranged husband should not carry out a death sentence by removing
Terri's feeding tube, which could take place today."
This afternoon, a Florida appeals court could clear the way
permitting Terri's estranged husband to remove her feeding tube - a
move that will trigger a week-long process of starvation and
dehydration.

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Last month, the Supreme Court refused to get take the Schiavo case
by rejecting an appeal by the Florida Governor's office asking the
high court to reverse a decision declaring "Terri's Law" - a state law
that reinstated feeding and hydration measures - unconstitutional. The brief also argued that the Florida Supreme
Court acted unconstitutionally in its decision when it determined that
once any court has issued a decree regarding the care and treatment of
an incompetent person, neither the legislature nor the executive
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"This death sentence should not be carried out," said Jay Sekulow,
Chief Counsel of the ACLJ , which represented Mary and Robert Schindler
- Terri's parents - at the Supreme Court in their efforts to defend
the emergency Florida legislation that saved their daughter's life. In
September 2004 , the Florida Supreme Court upheld the lower court
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The brief also asserted that Terri is not in a persistent
vegetative state, as alleged by her husband, that her condition is not
terminal and untreatable, and that she is aware of her surroundings
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"The decision to remove the feeding tube is wrong and we will do
everything we can to assist the Florida attorneys representing Terri 's
parents to ensure that Terri remains alive.S.
Governor Bush acting under "Terri's Law," ordered feeding and
hydration tubes to be restored to Terri after a Florida trial court
had ordered them removed.

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There is new medical
evidence to suggest that patients like Terri do respond and are more
aware of their surroundings than previously thought.
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In its brief filed at the Supreme Court, the ACLJ said the
decision by the Florida Supreme Court is an "astonishing and
unprecedented ruling" and encouraged the high court to send the case
back to the Florida Supreme Court for further clarification prior to
accepting the case.