Why we can't forget Terri Schiavo

Why we can't forget Terri Schiavo

(RNS) — Twenty years after it reached its terrible conclusion, few of us may remember or understand just how strongly the case of how we think about Terri Schiavo gripped the United States in the late 1990s and early aughts. In the culture wars of the day, no less hot than today, Americans were very much taken up with what, precisely, makes our lives valuable. The debate over whether a woman’s husband could starve and dehydrate her to death afte…

Founder & Editor of LifeNews.com: Terri Schiavo Died 20 Years Ago Today—We Must Never Forget Her

(By Steven Ertelt / LifeNews.com) Today, March 31, 2025, marks 20 years since Terri Schiavo’s death. It’s a day that her family, particularly her brother Bobby Schindler, remembers not as a quiet passing, but as the end of a brutal, court-ordered ordeal. For the Schindler family, Terri’s death was no abstract ethical debate; it was a deeply personal tragedy, a wound that has not healed. Two decades ago, after a 15-year struggle to keep their dau…