The brother of Terri Schiavo, the severely brain-damaged woman who died last year in Florida after an epic court battle, said he is disturbed over the direction the country is going in cases like his sister's.

"Unfortunately, the laws now err on the side of killing rather than protecting the disabled," Bobby Schindler said after a broad indictment of many of the main players in Terri Schiavo's death March 31, 2005, after a feeding tube was removed on court order.

"That's what is so frightening," he said Thursday after speaking before more than 200 people at a benefit dinner hosted by Flint Right to Life and Black Americans for Life. "I think we've lost our sense of compassion."

Schiavo, 41, died in a Pinellas Park, Fla., hospice where she lay for years while her husband and her parents fought over her fate in the nation's longest, most bitter right-to-die dispute.

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