I think Jeb wanted to stop it, but when his brother the President backed off, and when he got stabbed in the back by the Florida Senate (GOP majority), I think he didn't have a lot of choice. It would certainly have been a lot harder for him to do something and justify it legally, and so I blame him a lot less than W.
There has been several series of events over the past decade which created the perfect environment. Lawton Chiles was GOV at the time.
Personally, I do not believe they knew initially why they seemed hog tied at every turn. Some of Florida's legislators may not get it yet.
Read this. This will explain much of the problem. The minds is the biggest factor.
http://www.northcountrygazette.org/articles/032906AssistedSuicide.html
The Mergers, The Money, The Minds Behind Assisted Suicide
By Karen Ward, RN
Rita Marker, a lawyer out of Steubenville, Ohio, has researched and written extensively about the foundations who fund the right to die groups pushing euthanasia and physician assisted suicide in the United States. Rita states that private foundations are the critical players in promoting societal changes. They also supply the money for the studies used in advancing an ideology. This is fact. Just follow the money trail.
Jeb signed the bill that allowed the withholding food and water from PVS patients in 1999. His appointed guardian ad litem who reported directly back to him recommended swallowing tests to determine if she was PVS in 2003. Jeb is a little slow, he didn't catch the hint. Terri's Law was in effect at the time and she was essentially under his control until everyone got scared. The window was there.
All that leftist money spent to promote death plays out the iron logic of every form of collectivism. The logic is to kill the weaker, less productive half of humanity. Leftist theory holds that those people don't pull their weight, so they are a burden on everyone else. They are a waste of resources. Kill them off! This is simple justice to the rest, who will now get more from the common pot.
It is only in a free-market society, where rights are protected and civilized values are widely shared, that the weak, the disabled, the elderly and the unborn can be kept safe from leftist genocide.
Moral ideas have more power than all of George Soros's money.