Terri Schiavo and a Culture of Life: The 5th Anniversary of Terri's Death

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On March 29, 2010 Family Research Council hosted a panel commemorating the five year anniversary of Terri Schiavo's death. Schiavo was a disabled woman whose husband successfully petitioned the courts to deny her food and water so she would die. Looking forward, the implications from Schiavo's court-ordered starvation death could impact how the Obama health care regime will create a federally-appointed comparative effectiveness research (CER) panel to evaluate treatments for the chronically ill to see which would be best in most scenarios. Among its considerations: The financial costs of each treatment.

PANELISTS:

Robert Schindler: Brother of Terri; full-time pro-life and disability rights advocate

David Gibbs III: Lead attorney in Terri Schiavo case and author of Fighting for Dear Life

Cathy Ruse: Senior Fellow for Legal Issues, Family Research Council

Robert Destro: Professor of Law, The Catholic University of America