Newsday coverage of Schiavo case

THE SCHIAVO AUTOPSY

The post-mortem

When Terri Schiavo died, she was blind, massively brain-damaged, unable to eat or drink, and beyond medical redemption, according to the autopsy performed on the Florida woman who ignited a national end-of-life debate.

THE SCHIAVO AUTOPSY

What was found

What did the autopsy find?

Crusading once again

In December 1990, Randall Terry, a militant anti-abortion activist from New York, arrived at a Missouri hospital to try to persuade the parents of Nancy Cruzan, a woman in a persistent vegetative state, to restore her feeding tube.

Terri Schiavo, 41, dies after lengthy right-to-die dispute

Powerful religious and government forces wanted her to live, but two weeks after her feeding tube was removed, Terri Schiavo finally died Thursday, ending a bitter family dispute over the fate of the brain-damaged woman but leaving in her wake a divisive political debate over end-of-life decisions.

U.S. court says no again

A desperate gambit to crack open the federal courts and restore Terri Schiavo's feeding tube came to nothing yesterday but dashed hopes and a judicial rebuke amid an increasingly macabre deathwatch outside her hospice.

Finding common ground in Schiavo case

A giant wooden cross affixed with a baguette, grapes and a water bottle rises into a sunny sky. A bagpiper strolls the sidewalk. A woman bleats on an ancient Jewish horn called a shofar. And a man dressed in black clicks his heels and gives Nazi salutes to a line of police officers.

Terri Schiavo's parents, their advocates watch her drift closer to death

There are about 34 paces between unremitting hope and reality.

Ready to let her go

The parents of Terri Schiavo appeared to be moving yesterday toward resigned acceptance that their daughter would die, urging protesters to lift their vigil for Easter Sunday as a family lawyer indicated that legal efforts seemed hopeless and the brain-damaged woman might be unable to recover.

Second-hand voices send mixed message

When she testified before Pinellas County Probate Judge George Greer in 2000 about her childhood friend Terri Schiavo, Diane Meyer recalled vividly Schiavo's sour reaction in 1982 to a joke - "What is the state vegetable of New Jersey?" - about Karen Ann Quinlan, the comatose woman whose life support was cut off by her parents.

Schiavo's 'last hours'

Now comes the vigil.

High courts deny Schiavo tube re-insertion

The emotional, seven-year life-and-death legal battle over brain-damaged Terri Schiavo moved closer to its end Thursday after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an extraordinary 11th-hour appeal engineered by Congress and endorsed by the president.

Senate Dems outgunned on case

Senate Democrats declined to fight a bill giving federal courts jurisdiction over the Terri Schiavo case last weekend because they didn't have the votes to stop it and didn't want to waste political capital in a futile fight, a Democratic Senate staffer said.

Schiavo rulings walk legal line

By late afternoon yesterday, 13 federal judges had considered the Terri Schiavo appeal, and despite the extraordinary efforts by Congress and the president last weekend, only two had voted to reconsider the case.

On to Supreme Court

With Terri Schiavo on the sixth day cut off from a feeding tube, there was little her parents and their supporters could do but protest, pray and look to long-shot appeals before a Florida judge and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Experts: GOP may have stepped out of bounds

House Republicans may have overreached their authority when they issued congressional subpoenas yesterday to try to block a Florida court's order to remove Terri Schiavo's feeding tube, many lawyers and experts said yesterday.

Battling to the bitter end

Despite extraordinary attempts by Congress to intervene, Florida doctors Friday removed the feeding tube from a severely brain-damaged woman at the center of the nation's most watched right-to-die case.

Ruling denying Schiavo parents' motion

'Right-to-Die' Ruling Stands

The U.S. Supreme Court refused to get involved Monday in the case of Terri Schiavo, clearing the way for the husband of the severely brain-damaged Florida woman to have her feeding tube unhooked by a state court order.

A Battle for Control of the Feeding Tube

As Terri Schiavo received nourishment through a new feeding tube Wednesday, debate raged about whether Gov. Jeb Bush and state lawmakers had done the right thing, or the politically expedient one, in preventing the brain-damaged woman's death.