The fight of her life

Law | Terri Schiavo's family continues the battle as her court-ordered death date looms | Lynn Vincent

Wearing crisp slacks and suit jackets, Bob Schindler Jr. and his sister, Suzanne Vitadamo, stormed Capitol Hill on March 8, looking an awful lot like lobbyists. In the last-ditch effort to save their older sister Terri Schiavo, they had to act like lobbyists too. Dividing up the chambers of Congress, Bob took the Senate and Suzanne took the House.

With snow falling outside, each hit office after office to drum up support for new legislation that could win their sister another chance to live. Then at 5 p.m., the siblings regrouped to meet with Florida Republican Rep. Dave Weldon, who with Sen. Mel Martinez co-authored a new bill, the Incapacitated Person’s Legal Protection Act of 2005 (IPLPA). The law would extend to people like Ms. Schiavo the right of habeas corpus, a special procedure that allows a federal court to review whether a person has been unlawfully deprived of liberty.

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March 19, 2005, Vol. 20, No. 11

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