[honeygrl]

Lawmakers were eyeing "moratorium on the removal of nutrition and hydration from those who do not have a written directive and where there's a contest among the family about how to deal with this," Byrd said. "So it would be a very, very narrow approach, but it would be one that would apply to Terri's case," he said.

That is from the article in post #506. A direct quote from Byrd. So it looks like he very likely gave the family false hope.

[huck von finn]

But he didn't say he was going to introduce a bill. Also, notice how selective the quoting is.

Maybe this is a piece of shoddy journalism that was fueled by internet gossip...who knows?