Divorced parents contest life-sustaining feeding tube for brain-damaged adult daughter Lauren Richardson
Wilmington, DE
Feb 8, 2008

(CNA).- In a case recalling the conflict over Terri Schiavo, two divorced parents in Delaware are fighting over whether to continue life-sustaining nutrition for their brain-damaged adult daughter, the News Journal reports.

Lauren Richardson, 23, has been in a so-called persistent vegetative state since overdosing on heroin in August 2006. Pregnant at the time, she was kept alive at a hospital with feeding tubes and a breathing machine until she gave birth in February 2007 to a healthy baby girl.
Her parents Randy Richardson and Edith Towers are currently disputing whether her feeding tube should be removed. the rest