Parents refuse to abandon hope as Terri wanes

As Terri Schiavo’s health waned, her parents pressed on today to restore the brain-damaged woman’s feeding tube after the nation’s highest court and judges in Florida defeated their latest legal appeals.

Bob and Mary Schindler held onto the slim hope that state Governor Jeb Bush - the president’s brother – would somehow find a way to intervene or a federal judge who had turned them down before would see things their way.