Original sentence: Theresa Marie Schiavo (neé Schindler; born December 3, 1963), commonly known as Terri Schiavo, is a severely brain-damaged American woman from the state of Florida, whose husband's efforts to remove her feeding tube have prompted a fierce debate over bioethics, euthanasia, guardianship, federalism, and civil rights
Edited sentence: Theresa Marie Schiavo (neé Schindler; born December 3, 1963), commonly known as Terri Schiavo, is a severely brain-damaged American woman from the state of Florida in a persistent vegetative state (since February 1990), whose husband's efforts to remove her feeding tube have prompted a fierce debate over bioethics, euthanasia, guardianship, federalism, and civil rights