"Protection for people like Terry Schiavo"
Because the federal government has the responsibility to interfere in state-level family court matters, right?.....
Pres Bush declared that the "strong have a duty to protect the weak" while he sat by cowardly as Terri Schiavo was starved to death and executed by a rogue two-bit county judge and a criminally abusive, adulterous, unfaithful husband. Bush (both GW and Jeb) could have intervened in they had the cajones to....but they both blinked and turned away. Heck even Bill Clinton defied both Florida state courts and the 11th Court of Appeals when he sent in armed federal agents to kidnap Elian Gonzales and return him to Cuba.
So sometimes as president, GW Bush does the right and duty and responsibility to uphold the Constitution and protection for all people under the 14th amendment (Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws).
He just didn't have the guts to do so....