TAMPA, Fla. (AP) – A judge on Friday extended for three weeks a court order keeping Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube in place, the latest in a series of legal developments in the bitter right-to-die case.

Pinellas Circuit Court Judge George Greer made his decision after pleadings from the woman’s parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, that they need more time to pursue additional medical tests which might prove their brain-damaged daughter has more mental capabilities than previously thought.

The woman’s husband, Michael Schiavo, says he is seeking to carry out his wife’s wishes not to be kept alive artificially.

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