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Florida Legislature to Consider Bill Helping Others Like Terri Schiavo by Steven Ertelt LifeNews.com Editor February 2, 2004 Tallahassee, FL (LifeNews.com) -- On Tuesday, members of the Florida state legislature will hold a hearing on pro-life legislation designed to help people who are in similar situations as Terri Schiavo, the woman who has been the subject of a national debate as her estranged husband attempts to end her life. The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on Senate Bill 692, which would make it more difficult to remove the feeding tubes from incapacitated patients that do not leave advance...

http://www.cbn.com/CBNNews/News/040116a.asp FL Senator Johnny Byrd calls up President of the Senate Jim King: "Jim, we need to save Terri Schiavo's life." President of the FL Senate Jim King: "No, I wrote this legislation several years ago, and I want her to die." On November 21, 2003, Senator Stephen Wise sponsored Senate Bill 692. This bill is being titled the "Starvation & Dehydration of Persons with Disabilities Prevention Act" and it "declares that an incompetent person is presumed to have directed health care providers to provide necessary nutrition & hydration to sustain life". On December 3, 2003, Senate President Jim King...