Gov. Bush: I can't help Terri Schiavo

CNN ^ | March 27, 2005

[El_Doctor]

Rick Barnard of Morris, Illinois, wass arrested Sunday after trying to bring Terri Schiavo Easter communion. per cnn... ALLAHASSEE, Florida (CNN) -- Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said on Sunday there is nothing else he can do to save Terri Schiavo's life. "I cannot violate a court order," Bush said after returning to the Governor's Mansion from Easter Sunday church services. "I don't have powers from the United States Constitution or -- for that matter from the Florida Constitution -- that would allow me to intervene after a decision has been made." To Terri Schiavo's parents -- who have said Bush should do more to help their daughter -- the governor said: "I can't. I'd love to, but I can't." The governor has been under public pressure from Bob and Mary Schindler, parents of the 41-year-old brain-damaged woman, and many religious groups to intervene further in the case. On Thursday, a Florida state judge denied a petition by Gov. Bush and the state Department of Children and Families to take Schiavo into state custody. (Full story) The Florida Supreme Court dismissed on Saturday -- for the second time in a week -- an emergency petition by the Schindlers to have their daughter's feeding tube reconnected. "I'm sad that she's in the situation that she's in," Bush said, commenting publicly on the case for the first time since Thursday. "I feel bad for her family. My heart goes out to the Schindlers and, for that matter, to [her husband] Michael [Schiavo]," Bush said. "This has not been an easy thing for any, any member of the family. But most particularly for Terri Schiavo."

[lonster]

as you do to the least among you, so you do to me.

[janej]

There IS something that can be done, but not by Jeb Bush, at least not directly. The Florida legislature can stop this atrocity by passing a law that says that where a guardian chooses to end the life of a comatose person, other relatives may step in and take over the person's care. I understand that something like this failed in the Florida legislature last week. WHY???? Florida residents, please contact your representatives and demand that they act to save Terri. Courts are NOT the last word. The legislature can change the law. They need to DO IT!

[Clara Lou]

Please pardon my peevishnes and do not take it personally, but no one except you was addressing "the soul of a church." If you read my post, context indicates that I use the term "church" as in "congregation with accompanying building for worship."

[MHGinTN]

Careful there, you make too much sense for the jeb Bush apologists to comprehend.

[what's up]

Like I said...how unfortunate that we do not you as our leader with your perfection in judgment and your faultless courage (perish the thought...UGHHHHHHHH!!!)

[freecopper01]

Don't care for baseball, actually. (Not enough excitment!)

I rate it at the same scale as golf and football: Who wants to stand around and watch small balls....?

See ya.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

I never back down.

This is something with which Governor Bush is unfamiliar.

Then you're needed in Florida, ASAP. Go. Now. And take the rest of the mob that blames Governor Bush for this with you.

[Wormwood]

Then you're needed in Florida, ASAP. Go. Now. And take the rest of the mob that blames Governor Bush for this with you.

Um, no thanks. We've hit our quota around here (I live 2 miles south of Pinellas Park...and it's a little weird right now)

[Clara Lou]

How ironic that the laws of Florida are contrary to the Book upon which Governor Bush swore an oath!
Since I am not familiar with the exact wording of the law to which you refer, so I won't argue with you. However, the law was when he took his oath and continues to be the law. Is Jeb to honor his sworn oath on the Bible, or is he to pick and choose which laws he obeys? If he is to pick and choose, then we are, indeed, on a slippery slope.

[freecopper01]

Checkmate.

My game.

Next.

[Old anti feminist]

iF jEB would raise his arms before the people and says "I am going to rescue this girl" If I am imprisoned, lose my job, I don't care! Thats what a great man would do. We don't have them anymore, just politions.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

Like I said...how unfortunate that we do not you as our leader...

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case closed.

[proust]

"Therefore, the governor is a slave to the judiciary, and must carry out unconstitutional orders. This means there is no Constitution, there is no rule of law. The judge IS the law, and whatever he says must be obeyed. He says to kill, so the governor must kill, and unconstitutionally deprive someone of the right to life."

Bingo. When will Jeb get out of Greer's house?

[solitas]

ping

[MHGinTN]

Stop gloating, Hildy, it's unseemly. An innocent woman is being slowly executed, that should be sufficieint flesh for you without trying to scrape some off of fellow Freepers.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Kind of fascinating to me how the people with the most to say about what others should be doing haven't the slightest inclination to lift a finger themselves, other than to type criticism of the one politician who actually DID something for this woman.

[Hildy]

Gloating about what? I made statement. Yeesh.

[what's up]

You forgot to post the "UGHHHHHHHH".

[Diogenesis]

'Thou shall not murder'

Exd 20:13

'Thou shall not murder'

Deu 5:17

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Judgenfuhrer Greer: "Murder and Burn the evidence. Cool.
Rape by Fatwah and 'First Night' shall be next. "