{"id":788,"date":"2005-03-28T09:44:30","date_gmt":"2005-03-28T13:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=788"},"modified":"2005-03-28T09:44:30","modified_gmt":"2005-03-28T13:44:30","slug":"the-whole-terri-schiavo-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2005\/03\/the-whole-terri-schiavo-story\/","title":{"rendered":"The whole Terri Schiavo story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldnetdaily.com\/news\/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43463\">WorldNetDaily.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Major media organizations paint the pitched battle over the life of Terri Schiavo as a clear- cut debate between pro-life and right-to-die advocates, bankrolled by big money activist organizations on both sides. But the case of the 41-year-old brain-injured Florida woman is anything but clear cut. <\/p>\n<p>The little-publicized nuances of her 15-year saga often get lost amid the smoldering, post-election political warfare reignited by the intervention of Congress on behalf of Terri. But as President Bush pointed out in a statement on Terri Schiavo, &#8220;there are serious questions and substantial doubts&#8221; in her case. <\/p>\n<p>Chief among these doubts is whether the removal of Terri Schiavo&#8217;s feeding tube on March 18, which amounts to slow death by dehydration and starvation, reflects her wishes. There is no written directive from Terri Schiavo on the matter. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WorldNetDaily.com Major media organizations paint the pitched battle over the life of Terri Schiavo as a clear- cut debate between pro-life and right-to-die advocates, bankrolled by big money activist organizations on both sides. But the case of the 41-year-old brain-injured Florida woman is anything but clear cut. The little-publicized nuances of her 15-year saga often &#8230; <a title=\"The whole Terri Schiavo story\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2005\/03\/the-whole-terri-schiavo-story\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The whole Terri Schiavo story\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sanctity-of-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}