Feeding tube conflict in court

SIX days after Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube was removed at the request of her husband, a hospital began again pumping fluids into the brain-damaged woman on orders from Florida Governor Jeb Bush.

Both men have remained rivals in one of the longest and most bitter right-to-die battles, a struggle that has embroiled all branches of state government and is now in the Florida Supreme Court.

The question before the court is whether the law Mr Bush signed in October to keep the 40-year-old Schiavo alive violates her constitutional right to privacy and the separation of government powers.