Terri Schiavo case

The Terri Schiavo case was a series of court and legislative actions in the United States from 1998 to 2005, regarding the care of Theresa Marie Schiavo, a woman in an irreversible persistent vegetative state. Schiavo's husband and legal guardian argued that Schiavo would not have wanted prolonged artificial life support without the prospect of recovery, and in 1998, he elected to remove her feeding tube. Schiavo's parents disputed her husband's assertions and challenged Schiavo's medical diagnosis, arguing in favor of continuing artificial nutrition and hydration. The highly publicized and prolonged series of legal challenges presented by her parents, which ultimately involved state and federal politicians up to the level of George W. Bush, the then U.S. president, caused a seven-year delay before Schiavo's feeding tube was ultimately removed.

3 December 1963

Born on the same birth date (3 December 1963): Joe Lally

Born on the same birth day (3 December): Anna Freud • Cristian Ceballos • Fedor von Bock • Herman Heijermans • Len Lesser • Mildred Wiley • Princess Louise of Prussia • Ralph McTell • Takao Fujinami • Tomotaka Okamoto (singer)

Born in the same month (December 1963): Ann Patchett • Benjamin Bratt • Chandler Burr • Doctor Dré • Govinda (actor) • John Lammers (footballer) • Luna H. Mitani