Posted on 03/29/2005 4:39:09 PM PST by Former Military Chick
Mar. 29, 2005 - First lady Laura Bush said Tuesday the government was right to have intervened in the case of Terri Schiavo, a severely brain-damaged Florida woman whose case has stirred national debate about life and death issues.
"I just feel like the federal government has to be involved," Mrs. Bush said. "It is a life issue that really does require government to be involved."
Mrs. Bush commented on the Schiavo case aboard a plane bound for Afghanistan, where she was to promote education and women's rights.
Schiavo's husband, Michael, has waged a long court battle with his parents-in-law, contending his 41-year-old wife, who has been in a persistent vegetative state since 1990, would not want to live that way. Schiavo's parents, on the other hand, have been pleading with the U.S. Congress, Florida lawmakers, federal judges and in courts in Florida to have their daughter's feeding tube reinserted.
"I am not surprised over the debate," Mrs. Bush said. "I think it's an issue that, you know, everyone is concerned about and interested in.
"I'm sorry for the family that it has to be so public. This is such a very, very difficult time for them and for everyone who watches Terri."
Mrs. Bush said she has been encouraged to hear that the case has prompted more people to inquire about living wills.
"I think that is really good," she said. "The president and I have living wills and, of course, our parents do. They wanted us always to be aware of it. I think that it is important for families to have opportunities to talk about these issues."
I'm not hysterical. I'm being practical. Jeb Bush has serious problems if he intends to stay in politics. I only care if Jeb Bush is in politics if he does good work. If he puts the people he has sworn to protect and serve above himself. If he can't he needs to seek other work.
You don't believe that the police would arrest the president and the governor,IF they tried to DROWN Terri by giving her water by mouth? THEN YOU DON'T HAVE 3 WORKING BRAIN CELLS!
She 1) can't swallow and 2) oh yes the police most assuredly WOULD arrest anyone and everyone who would try to give her water.
No matter WHAT you "feel", our laws ARE our laws and we ARE a nation of laws. You want something different? Work to change the law.
'Far-right-wing-nut' web site is what it has become. Let's change the subject and try to convince me that the earth is flat.
Intepret the law. That's what a strict constructionist does.
Uh, OK.....
You need convincing? That is wrong with you!
Go get um, nopardons!! Yeeee haaaaa !!!!
LOL, ya think? The Lord works in mysteriuos ways doesn't he.
Through two faced publicity seeking hypocrites with reputations worse than dirt..THIS IS who the Lord works through? Jesse Jackson?
You really think so?
Yall calling for Terri death are getting to be a very small club. With zero consrvatives of note in it. How does it feel to shown horribly wrong on the webs most popular conservative site?
Are you really this clueless?
EVERY POLL shows the majority of Americans support the decision by Terri's husband and DISAGREE with Congress and Bush tampering with process.
I love Bush but his approval numbers are taking a HUGE hit, and most blame the radical rights fanatical activism over this case.
This is ABSOLUTELY going to hurt the Republicans and help the Dems.
The LORD has nothing at all to do with Jesse Jackson. The Schindlers called him and asked him to come down there. Jesse being Jesse, he went...looking for the cameras and microphones every 2 seconds.
:-)
Under what Constitutional authority. Abuse of power is plain wrong, no matter which party is the perpetrator.
Correct; sadly.
Jorge, you forget that the polls 'lie'. Naughty, naughty, naughty on you, Jorge. ROTFLMAO...
Yes, attacking a popular Republican Governor and giving a huge opening for the Dems and the left to move in is really "practical".
Maybe it's really a bit vindictive, short-sighted and counter-productive.
I'm not sure I understand your apparent hysteria here. A certain amount of passion in defense of defenseless human life, outrage at the over-reaching of the courts, is understandable. And we've seen that in many of these threads.
Emotional outbursts attacking those who wish for a greater respect for the sanctity of life in our culture is another thing entirely. And I don't understand that.
Exactly.
Jeb was quoted on FR today giving a speech to a group of disabled people during the last election. I wonder how that same buoyant, can-do speech, to the same group, would be received next election cycle...
Once Jeb sent a team to rescue Terri but did not back it up, the legend "wimp with a silver spoon" was tattooed on his forehead forever. Jeb has ultimate administrative responsibility for state government, and that probably puts him in the chain of command of every state sworn officer. If not, Jeb still could cause the city officers to stand down and transfer custody of Terri to him.
More than anything else, Jeb projected an unwillingness to take a chance, to hold fast to a possibly unpopular human-rights principle, and to risk his cushy career for Terri.
I believe that blackmail lies at the root of the weakness shown by Jeb and others. Democrats stole hundreds of FBI files in the last administration. Reasonably, Jeb's is among them. Also, Greer conceivably could be blackmailed by information received by M. Schiavo via his new girlfriend's mother, who works in the sherriff's office
Sadly I agree.
I've been addicted FR for almost 5 years, and the shrill, hysterical rhetoric that has taken over these boards the past few months has made me dread coming here.
I am NOT "hysterical"; I'm quite calm, rational, and logical; unlike you.
I have no idea how old you are, but I know, again unlike you, that there wasn't a damned thing that could be LEGALLY, that hasn't already been done, by the president and the governor. And we've always been a nation of laws. Those laws change; sometimes for the better And sometimes for the worse.But people have gone through exactly what Terri is now going through and worse, since we became a nation. YOU JUST WEREN'T APPRISED OF IT 24/7 OF IT BEFORE. Does that make it right? No.
You're the one who is being emotional; not I. And at least I know the facts; yet again, unlike you newbie.
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