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Supreme Court Rejects New Schiavo Request

Perhaps finally the parents will get a clue...their daughter is in a persistent vegetative state and the evidence unequivocally shows she would not want to have been kept alive insuch condition:

High Court Rejects New Schiavo Request

By HOPE YEN, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Wednesday once again refused to order Terri Schiavo's feeding tube reinserted, dealing another blow to her parents' attempts to keep their severely brain-damaged daughter alive.

The decision, announced in a one-sentence order, was the sixth time since 2000 that the court declined to intervene in the case. Justices did not explain their decision and there was no indication how they voted.

It was also the second time in a week that the high court refused to reinsert the tube. Justices on March 24 denied the parents' emergency request based on similar claims that husband Michael Schiavo did not have her consent to remove the tube.

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