From the filing:
http://www.catholicmediacoalition.com/JebBushMotion.pdf:
"The Governor submits this memorandum to ensure that the Court consider the critical distinction between removing artificial life support and the deliberate killing of a human being by starvation and deydration. These are two different actions. The first is performed according to state law and is allowed under Florida's constitutional right to privacy. The second is prohibited by the right to life enshrined in the Florida and federal Constitutions. The Governor submits that removal of the feeding tube without first determining by medically accepted means whether the plaintiff can ingest food and water on her own, with our without rehabilitative therapy, constitutes the deprivation of her life without due process of law".
SMACKDOWN! TO JUDGE GREER:
"While many rights may be delgated to a guardian, the right to receive necessary services and rehabilitation may not. Similarly, the right to receive necessary services and rehabilitation
may not be removed by the court. The clear language, ordering and context of the statute indicates that the ward retains that right for the duration of the guardianship; there is no provision for waiving, removing, or delegating retained rights in the statute. Services to rehabilitate Terri's swallowing musculature are necessary (without them, she will surely die), and so fall within that retained right.
The guardianship court recently prohibited the provision of such therapy requested by Terri's parents. Such prohibition is impermissible in the context of Section 765.401 action to terminate life-prolonging procedures, and is an impermissible deprivation of Terri's retained rights under Florida's guardianship law and her right to life under the Florida and federal Constitutions." (All emphasis mine).
YEAH JEB!!!
"The support - caring even where there is no curing - affirms human solidarity in both directions: care-giver and care-receiver. It is a human virtue to care for those who cannot care for themselves, and in that act of caring we affirm that it is a human person we care for - not some mere physiological process."
Sorry for any misspellings - I just had to share these parts with those who may not be able to read pdf's. THIS IS SO GOOD!!