Right-to-die battle wages on in US

While Terri Schiavo lay dying in her hospice bed early today, the US Congress gave a boost to the hopes of the brain-damaged woman’s parents that her feeding tube would be reinserted.

As protesters and TV satellite trucks gathered outside the hospice, first the Senate and then the House passed a bill to let the woman’s parents ask a federal judge to prolong Schiavo’s life.