Posted on 10/18/2003 5:15:50 PM PDT by summer
Note to FR: I am posting here an email conversation I had today with Gov Bush about Terri, and yes, he knows I am posting it here on FR.
In my reply #1, located below this post of Gov Bushs email, I have posted a message from me to Terris husband. And, no, I did not discuss with anyone my idea here to write to Terris husband. No one suggested it to me. Nor did I discuss it with anyone at all.
In my next reply, reply #2 below, I hope to post a message to my friends here on FR. And, while I would like to respond to each reply that may be posted on this thread, I can not. Due to a pressing personal matter, I will not be able to respond tonight.
However, my thoughts and prayers and hopes remain with each person involved in this matter.
God bless.
summer
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----- Original Message -----
From: [summer]
To: Jeb Bush
Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2003 4:46 PM
Subject: Re:
question for you
Gov Bush,
Thank you, and I have no doubt you would move Heaven and Earth for her if you could.
Sincerely, [summer]
----- Original Message -----
From: Jeb Bush
To: [summer]
Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2003 4:42 PM
Subject:
question for you
I cannot offer much hope. I am sickened by this situtation and pray for her family. We have looked at every angle, every legal possibility and will continue to do so. It is clear that we need to make living wills the norm for families in our state. Too few people use them.
Jeb
-----Original Message-----
From: [summer]
Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2003 4:38 PM
To: Jeb Bush
Subject: Re:
question for you
Thank you for your response, Gov Bush. Before I post this, can you provide any measure of hope for a legal way to preserve this woman's life? To think that all her parents want to do is care for her and not see her starve to death, is, I think, not asking for a lot in this world. My own parents would feel the same way about me, I am sure[
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[summer]
----- Original Message -----
From: Jeb Bush
To: [summer]
Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2003 4:07 PM
Subject:
question for you
this was tried in the courts I believe and was rejected.
jeb
-----Original Message-----
From: [summer]
Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2003 4:03 PM
To: Jeb Bush
Subject:
question for you
Is there a way you can utilize Family Law as it pertains to abandonment of a spouse -- on the grounds of lack of sexual contact -- so that the path can be cleared for him to be legally removed by the state or her family as a husband?
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeb Bush
Sent: Oct 18, 2003 1:47 PM
To: [summer]
Subject:
question for you
Unfortunately, I cannot issue an executive order when there is a court order upheld at every level in the judiciary. Mr. Shiavo is the legal guardian and I can't override that fact. I wish I could but I have no legal authority to do so.
Jeb
-----Original Message-----
From: [summer]
Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2003 11:02 AM
To: Jeb Bush
Subject:
question for you
Can you use your authority to issue an Executive Order, to place her in a different hospice that has no connection to her husband, as a temporary stop measure to [get] this woman back on feeding -- so that you have the time necessary to review whatever other options may exist for you? This current situation with her removed from the tubes will result in an irrevocable situation.
Goldwater, have you LISTENED to the audio bites where Terri is DEFINITELY trying to say YES to her dad?? also the responses looking and following a BALLOON, and the wonderful , most favorite of all of mine....her " MUSIC" video. This is NOT a woman who is NOT AWARE......SORRY, but NO!!!!!!!!!
Because, according to the law, Michael was her guardian and could decide her family would not even be able to visit Terri?
Why did he deny Terri communion?
Ok....leave Bush out of the discussion for a minute. Here is MY QUESTION.....what is happening to Terri, is in DIRECT VIOLATION of the ADA!!!!! Why then, can't Governor Bush, President Bush, Attorney Ashcroft intervene LEGALLY?? is the only reason that, the highest court in the land has already ruled in the case,and any decision or intervening on the Goveror/Pres/attGEN would be illegal?? * sorry for my uneducated question* pa always told me if I " didn't know.....ask"!!
The link is to an interesting article on the Jeff Rense website. I tried posting it on it's own thread, but the Admin Moderator pulled it. Said we're not supposed to post stuff from Rense.
We'll see if we're allowed to link to the site.
The article's premise is that Terri is NOT married to Michael and therefore her parents should be her guardians.
Is Terri Schindler Still Legally Married To Michael Schiavo?
You mean they cannot go back in time to pass a law soon enough to save Terri, I guess.
That's true.
Too bad Michael arranged to have her tube removed before any new laws went into effect.
I wonder if Mike was in a hurry to get this deed done so that she would be dead long before the laws could be changed. My guess is that any new laws and subsequent rulings about them could have saved her.
Supreme Court Overturns Most Death Penalty Laws
In the 1972 case of Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 153 (1972), the Supreme Court issued a 5-4 decision effectively striking down most federal and state death penalty laws finding them "arbitrary and capricious." The court held that the death penalty laws, as written, violated the "cruel and unusual punishment" provision of the Eighth Amendment and the due process guarantees of the Fourteenth Amendment.As a result of Furman v. Georgia, more than 600 prisoners who had been sentenced to death between 1967 and 1972 had their death sentences lifted.
So, does that mean I am inn your will? ;o)
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