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PINELLAS PARK (FLORIDA), MARCH 23. After losing two consecutive appeals in U.S. Federal court, parents of the brain-damaged Terri Schiavo vowed on Wednesday to take their fight to the U.S. Supreme Court as their daughter began her fifth full day without the feeding tube that has kept her alive for more than a decade. In a 2-1 ruling early on Wednesday, a panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta said the parents ``failed to demonstrate a substantial case on the merits of any of their claims'' that Ms Schiavo's feeding tube should be reinserted.
Legal blow
Wednesday's ruling was the latest legal blow for Ms. Schiavo's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, as their 41-year-old daughter's life hangs in balance. Doctors have said that Ms. Schiavo could survive one to two weeks without water and nutrients. Rex Sparklin, an attorney with the law firm representing the parents, said that the couple will appeal to the Supreme Court. ``The Schindlers will be filing an appeal to save their daughter's life''. In court documents, the Schindlers said their daughter began ``a significant decline'' late on Monday. Her eyes were sunken and dark, and her lips and face were dry. ``While she still made eye contact with me when I spoke to her, she was becoming increasingly lethargic,'' Bob Schindler said in the papers. ``Terri no longer attempted to verbalise back to me when I spoke to her.''
Demonstrations
Demonstrators who gathered outside Ms Schiavo's hospice here decried the courts' decisions. One woman was arrested on Tuesday for trespassing after trying to bring Ms. Schiavo a cup of water. Over the weekend, Republicans in Congress pushed through unprecedented emergency legislation aimed at prolonging Ms. Schiavo's life by allowing the case to be reviewed by Federal courts. On Tuesday, the District Judge, James Whittemore, of Tampa rejected the parents' request to have the tube reinserted. — AP
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