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FLA. LAWMAKERS MAY PASS TUBE-FEEDING LAW (LEGISLATURE MEETING TONIGHT, OCT. 20, TO PROPOSE BILL)
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| OCT. 20, 2003
| AP WIRE
Posted on 10/20/2003 5:05:50 PM PDT by varina davis
Fla. Lawmakers May Pass Tube-Feeding Law
October 20, 2003 07:17 PM EDT
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Florida lawmakers were moving Monday to consider intervening in the case of a severely brain-damaged woman whose feeding tube was removed last week by her husband's order.
The Florida House scheduled a Monday night session to take up the issue. In the Senate, President Jim King said he will propose legislation that would give Gov. Jeb Bush the authority to order the feeding tube be reinserted to keep Terri Schiavo alive.
The tube was removed Wednesday following a decade-long court battle between Schiavo's parents and their son-in-law, who contends that he is carrying out her wishes not to be kept alive artificially.
"If we are to err - because time is of the essence - for goodness sake let us err on the side of caution," said King, a Republican.
Schiavo has been in what doctors call a vegetative state since her heart stopped in 1990 from a suspected potassium imbalance.
Bush told parents Bob and Mary Schindler last week that his staff would search for legal ways to save their daughter's life, but said Monday they haven't yet found a way.
"The legal ways, the remedies, don't exist," Bush said Monday, before the possible legislative moves became apparent.
Bush added, "I wish I could wave the magic wand and resolve this but every effort that we've had or every effort that has been proposed has either been thwarted by the courts or would be inappropriate."
Meanwhile, in a statement released through his lawyer, husband Michael Schiavo said Monday that he, too, is grieving, but "I did what I believe Terri would have wanted me to do."
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bill; bush; law; terri
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To: yesnettv
Are you sure???
To: yesnettv
Are you sure???
To: NautiNurse
yeah, because feeding may not be enough .
To: Gelato
Passed Bump!!!!!
To: Gelato
there is good in the world
To: shezza
OK NOW SOMEONE TELL THE DOCTOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PUT HER TUBE BACK IN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
To: NautiNurse
Goes to the senate tomorrow.
To: yesnettv
OMG, Bless them for doing this at this late hour. I hope they had a physician standing by to reconnect that tube post haste and give Terri a big long drink of water RIGHT NOW.
448
posted on
10/20/2003 7:14:14 PM PDT
by
shezza
To: All
YAY!!!!!!! THANK YOU GOD!!!!
To: NautiNurse
I'm praying that a kind nurse has been sneaking her water somehow, someway. God is good.
450
posted on
10/20/2003 7:15:06 PM PDT
by
Warren_Piece
(Truth Hits Everybody)
To: yesnettv
Oh!
How soon does this mean the feeding tube can be put in? I can't believe it; I feared Satan's hand in this was being clung to by far too many of his followers.
451
posted on
10/20/2003 7:15:06 PM PDT
by
ChemistCat
(Bought the cats a new scratching-couch. It looks great so far.)
To: Diverdogz
Tomorrow is day 6 no water. Not good.
To: NautiNurse
(oops didn't finish) but God is in control and all things possible :')
To: NautiNurse
Thank God. And the Florida Legislature.
Been following this pretty close.
Time for a full investigation. And a change in guardianship.
If those two things don't happen, he'll just keep denying her different things til he kills her.
454
posted on
10/20/2003 7:15:33 PM PDT
by
Stopislamnow
(It will be too late when we're all dead. And the way our government is going, it'll be soon.)
To: shezza
YES!
To: Diverdogz
NO chance of a special session for the Senate tonight?
456
posted on
10/20/2003 7:15:41 PM PDT
by
Lanza
To: ChemistCat
I thought it had to go to the Senate now? God how I hope not!
457
posted on
10/20/2003 7:15:57 PM PDT
by
katnip
(It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains)
To: CindyDawg
Yes--I am hoping for miracle now too.
To: Diverdogz
So Jeb can't act until it goes through the senate.
459
posted on
10/20/2003 7:16:13 PM PDT
by
agrace
To: All
460
posted on
10/20/2003 7:16:13 PM PDT
by
WackySam
("There's room for all God's creatures- right next to the taters")
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