New Documentary Explores How Lower Moreland’s Terri Schiavo’s Story Captured the Nation

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Terri Schiavo after cardiac arrest.
Image via YouTube.
The documentary explores the familial legal battle over whether or not Schiavo’s feeding tube should be removed.

Between Life & Death: Terri Schiavo’s Story, a new documentary about the right-to-die case of Lower Moreland Township native Terri Schiavo is streaming on Peacock, writes Brian Brant for People.

Schiavo who lived in Florida with her husband lived in a persistent vegetative state for 15 years after experiencing cardiac arrest.

The documentary explores the familial legal battle over whether or not Schiavo’s feeding tube should be removed.

The film “explores how the ‘pro-life’ movement harnessed Terr’s story and examines competing ethical positions on bodily autonomy, the concerns of marginalizing and ventriloquizing feminist voices, and the deep painful sorrow of anticipatory grief that occurs before an impending loss, a press release states.

Michael, Terri’s husband, maintained that his wife didn’t want to live hooked up to a machine and sought to disconnect her feeding tube.

Her parents, Robert and Mary Schindler, fought him in court to keep her alive. The legal battle captured the nation’s attention and fueled the right-to-die debate.

Read more about the documentary on Terri Schiavo in People.

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