Terri Schiavo was an American woman who went into an irreversible persistent vegetative state after collapsing due to cardiac arrest, which cut oxygen supply to her brain. Eight years later, her husband Michael Schiavo and her parents Robert and Mary Schindler entered into a prolonged legal battle to determine whether life support should be removed. Her husband claimed that she did not want to live artificially without the prospect of recovery, while her parents wanted continued artificial nutrition and hydration. The case involved 14 appeals and numerous motions, petitions, and hearings in the Florida courts, as well as five suits in federal district court. It also turned into a political tool after Republican Governor Jeb Bush and President George W. Bush intervened in favor of Terri's parents, introducing new laws that threatened to create constitutional crisis. Various activist groups from the pro-life movement and the right-to-die movement, as well as disability rights groups also actively participated in the case. However, the US Supreme Court denied all petitions and appeals and allowed the removal of her feeding tube.