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Gov. Bush calls special session over Terri Schiavo
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| 10-20-03
| Cynthia Capers
Posted on 10/19/2003 9:28:56 PM PDT by JulieRNR21
Edited on 10/20/2003 7:12:52 AM PDT by Admin Moderator.
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TALLAHASSEE, FL -- According to a news release sent by the Terry Schindler-Schiavo Foundation, Florida Speaker Johnnie Byrd will introduce "Terri's Bill" during the special session Monday.
The bill would put an immediate moratorium on all dehydration and starvation deaths in Florida. Meanwhile, supporters of Terri Schiavo showed up Sunday outside a Pinellas Park hospice.
Doctors say Schiavo has been in a vegetative state since complications from a heart attack in 1990. Her husband was granted a court order that her feeding tube be removed, saying his wife wouldn't have wanted to be kept alive.
TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; Breaking News; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: deathcultivation; jebbush; judicialwatch; terrischiavo; terrisfight
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To: Uno Animo
Weasel words from Mikey boy. What Bush said in his amicus to the court was dead on: that while she might have said she would not want to live with a tube in her stomach (and we only have Michael's word on this) that didn't mean she would not want to live being spoon fed and rehabbed.
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To: iowamomforfreedom
They're immediately arguing whether it is constitutional.
643
posted on
10/20/2003 5:29:15 PM PDT
by
iowamomforfreedom
(Why is it illegal to starve an animal but not a human being?)
To: Uno Animo
Be careful that malice can block your prayers!!! The only thing we should wish on Michael is that he should be led to repentance. One phone call and he could put an end to the travesty his own self. Perhaps he still has enough shame left to do that when he sees that the august Florida legislature is being moved to act.
To: iowamomforfreedom
Is anyone on the floor there to speak to the issue, other than the reps themselves?
To: Uno Animo
In the first quote Schifo says "Terri told me." In the second quote he says that he "believes" and "would have wanted." IOW, in the second quote he's not sure, he only "believes" that Terri "would have wanted."Bingo!
To: dawn53
"appeal was made by a "disability rights" group and actually carried more weight than appeals by parents" That is really a sorry state of affairs, but at this point I really don't care what or who helps Terri as long as somebody does! I certainly wouldn't want to have the conscience of those who have thus far refused.
647
posted on
10/20/2003 5:33:55 PM PDT
by
sweetliberty
("Having the right to do a thing is not at all the same thing as being right in doing it.")
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posted on
10/20/2003 5:34:23 PM PDT
by
WackySam
("There's room for all God's creatures- right next to the taters")
To: Uno Animo
Look at top of page - Live Streaming Video of House Chamber.
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posted on
10/20/2003 5:35:48 PM PDT
by
iowamomforfreedom
(Why is it illegal to starve an animal but not a human being?)
To: mtbopfuyn
Mikey perhaps sees, against his will but still sees, that spoon feeding would not be against what he has claimed to be her express wishes. So he feels compelled to extrapolate those wishes. He is behaving like vermin.
To: WackySam
Tell me this is happening NOW....please tell me that????
To: Uno Animo
I bet there is a lot of mental anguish going on now that legislators are back in session to try to stop what he's trying to do.
To: iowamomforfreedom
If this thing is for real and it passes, I'll eat most of the bad things I've posted this afternoon. Not all because jeb could have stepped in last week and the bill should have been #1 on the docket this morning with a life at stake. I still want to know why it wasn't introduced sometime today but tonight everyone is called back in. Me thinks they got swamped with emails and saw their poll numbers dropping.
To: PeyersPatches
The rats are claiming this is butting in where they don't belong. "Why are we here in the middle of the night, with no information blah, blah". Earlier guy said it violates the separation of powers, where will this lead us, etc.
Don't know who the woman is. Rep. Stargil brought it forward and is the one defending it.
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10/20/2003 5:40:48 PM PDT
by
iowamomforfreedom
(Why is it illegal to starve an animal but not a human being?)
To: iowamomforfreedom
"Don't know who the woman is. Rep. Stargil brought it forward and is the one defending it. "
Is Jeb Bush there defending it?
To: mtbopfuyn
who the he** is Representative Gilbert/Gilbur??? He's about to make me burst a blood vessel - this woman is DYING and he's b*tching about the bill?!? I'm about to chew off my fingernails....
To: iowamomforfreedom
The rats are claiming this is butting in where they don't belong. "Why are we here in the middle of the night, with no information blah, blah". Earlier guy said it violates the separation of powers, where will this lead us, etc.
Fine - let 'em b*tch and look like the murdering, heartless vicious ghouls that they truly are.
To: iowamomforfreedom
They're immediately arguing whether it is constitutional. Just curious - what happened in re the requirement that the introduction of a "new" topic had to be approved by 2/3 of the membership? That would seem to be the logically first thing to debate. Or did Jeb himself add the topic to the call, mooting the question?
To: All
What's happening, guys. I just got home. They are in session again?
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