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Bush role in end-of-life dispute as governor now 2016 issue
Associated Press ^ | Feb. 15, 2015 9:08 AM ET | Michael J. Mischak

Posted on 02/15/2015 7:25:31 AM PST by Olog-hai

Jeb Bush was preparing to release the emails he sent and received as Florida governor when he was excoriated by a letter-writer to The Miami Herald.

The headline: “Don’t trust Jeb Bush with the power of the presidency.”

The subject of many of the emails was Terri Schiavo. The letter-writer was her husband, Michael.

Bush’s effort to stop Michael Schiavo from removing his brain-damaged wife’s feeding tube was a defining moment of Bush’s time in office.

Bush, a devout Catholic, sided with Terri Schiavo’s parents in the end-of-life dispute and reached for unprecedented authority to intervene. Michael Schiavo said his wife did not want to be kept alive artificially.

As Bush moves toward a run for president in 2016, Michael Schiavo has re-emerged, promising to campaign against Bush and remind voters about the ex-governor’s role in the matter.

“I will be very active,” Schiavo, a registered Republican, told The Associated Press in an interview. He said he plans to back Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton, should she run. …

(Excerpt) Read more at hosted2.ap.org ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 2016electionbias; apbias; asspress; election2016; jebbush; michaelschiavo; revisionisthistory; terrischiavo
AP twisting things the other direction. The left really wants Jeb to run, don’t they.
1 posted on 02/15/2015 7:25:31 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
Michael Schiavo said his wife did not want to be kept alive artificially.

Food and water is not "artificial."

2 posted on 02/15/2015 7:31:29 AM PST by Slyfox (I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever)
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To: Olog-hai
OK Jebby Boy, here is your chance to go bare knuckles on a fundamental issue to conservatives. Let's see how you handle this. I predict equivocation and meekness. JB just does not understand the current political climate and the need to punch back harder then the bully who hit you.
3 posted on 02/15/2015 7:32:41 AM PST by Awgie (truth is always stranger than fiction)
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To: Awgie

I agree, but don’t confuse meekness with cravenness.


4 posted on 02/15/2015 7:36:03 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Her husband? He WANTED her to die, he had a girlfriend and he had life insurance on her, and besides that, he had probably choked her which caused her injury in the first place.


5 posted on 02/15/2015 7:36:22 AM PST by yldstrk
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To: Olog-hai

Jes is probably as devout a Catholic as Barack was a devout Chrisitan (non-denominational).


6 posted on 02/15/2015 7:43:55 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: Olog-hai; Nachum; GeronL; MeshugeMikey
“I will be very active,” (Terri's ex-husband Michael) Schiavo, a registered Republican, told The Associated Press in an interview. He said he plans to back Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton, should she run.

He's another Democrat for McCain/Romney etc. (in the primaries only)

In 2000 the media found such a "registered Republican" who was funding Al Gore's election recount (and in fact he'd voted for Al Gore).

I loathe the Ass. Press.

7 posted on 02/15/2015 7:46:55 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: a fool in paradise

Michael murdered her. There will be a reckoning.


8 posted on 02/15/2015 8:15:29 AM PST by yldstrk
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To: Olog-hai

Well.

A point in JEB’s favor.

I remember. Jeb backed down at the last minute.

He could have had a place in history.


9 posted on 02/15/2015 8:15:49 AM PST by ifinnegan
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To: Olog-hai

I always thought the reason Jebbie failed was that Mr. Schindler was not a large Bush contributor.


10 posted on 02/15/2015 8:19:44 AM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: Gondring

https://www.ewtn.com/morals/end-of-life.htm

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Q. What about the case of Terri Schiavo?

A. In Terri’s case, while there was some disagreement as to her exact medical condition, she was not dying. Indeed, when the other artificial means were withdrawn she continued to live, so that the withdrawal of her food and water directly caused her death. This was a violation of the natural law and the law of God.

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In summary, nutrition and hydration, like bathing and changing the patient’s position to avoid bedsores, is ordinary care that is owed to the patient. This is true even if it is delivered artificially, as when a baby is bottle-fed or a sick person is tube-fed. Nutrition and hydration may only be discontinued when they cannot achieve their natural purposes, such as when the body can no longer process them, or, when during the death process they would only prolong the person’s suffering. If such a case the patient dies of the underlying disease. On the other hand, if starvation and dehydration is the foreseeable cause of death, to withhold or withdrawn nutrition and hydration is gravely immoral.


11 posted on 02/15/2015 8:42:45 AM PST by Slyfox (I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever)
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To: Olog-hai

Do not trust Jeb Bush, period.


12 posted on 02/15/2015 9:34:34 AM PST by mulligan (I)
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To: Olog-hai

Go Michael! We hate Jeb’s guts too!


13 posted on 02/15/2015 10:23:39 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Go Michael with his support for Hillary?

This is not the enemy-of-my-enemy scenario. Schiavo’s actually trying to paint Jeb in a conservative light, which would help Jeb’s chances rather than hurt, and shut out a real conservative. So, no go.


14 posted on 02/15/2015 12:05:11 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

I’m not fooled.


15 posted on 02/15/2015 5:51:40 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: a fool in paradise
I loathe the Ass. Press.

Do you think they made this up?

16 posted on 02/15/2015 6:50:49 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

AP is calling Michael Schiavo a registered Republican (committed to Hillary Clinton) and Jeb Bush a devoted Catholic.

Do you believe that either Jeb or Michael meet the understood criteria for those identifiers (other than ‘in name only’)?

AP is spinning with those dishonest distortions.


17 posted on 02/15/2015 9:44:30 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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