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[Stephanie]

GOP Asks Brain-Damaged Woman to Testify

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&u=/ap/20050318/ap_on_re_us/brain_damaged_woman_21

By JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - Senate Republicans embroiled in the life-or-death legal battle over the severely brain-damagedTerri Schiavo invited the Florida woman to testify to Congress in a procedural move intended to keep her on life support.

The Senate Health Committee has requested that Terri and her husband Michael appear at an official committee hearing on March 28. A statement from the office of House Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., on Friday said the purpose of the hearing was to review health care policies and practices relevant to the care of non-ambulatory people.