Gov. Bush calls special session over Terri Schiavo

Firstcoastnews.com ^ | 10-20-03 | Cynthia Capers

[JulieRNR21]

TALLAHASSEE, FL -- According to a news release sent by the Terry Schindler-Schiavo Foundation, Florida Speaker Johnnie Byrd will introduce "Terri's Bill" during the special session Monday.

The bill would put an immediate moratorium on all dehydration and starvation deaths in Florida. Meanwhile, supporters of Terri Schiavo showed up Sunday outside a Pinellas Park hospice.

Doctors say Schiavo has been in a vegetative state since complications from a heart attack in 1990. Her husband was granted a court order that her feeding tube be removed, saying his wife wouldn't have wanted to be kept alive.

[Ohioan from Florida]

Campbell is a good guy, and we will remember!

[sfRummygirl]

Exactly.

[iowamomforfreedom]

Campbell: if we err we must err on the side of life...

[Deo volente]

If they could just shut up and vote, I'll buy them ALL drinks!

[windchime]

I believe the introduction of this question was intentionally introduced in this special session at the last moment to prevent months of the inane debate like Bullard's.

[lonevoice]

He says that if they error they should err on the side of life. He says the emails knocked his system down yesterday.

[honeygrl]

I love this Cambell guy!

[JulieRNR21]

Just checked....Campbell is a DEM but he's willing to vote for LIFE....God Bless him!

Starvation is unacceptable.

[iowamomforfreedom]

He got lots of emails too, but he doesn't make his decisions based on email...this is letting someone starve to death... you have my vote.

[sfRummygirl]

It is like a rat pack movie with some, isn't it?

[PleaseNoMore]

Unacceptable to allow a person to STARVE TO DEATH...emphasis his...

[Humidston]

Sen Cambell again... "Ironic - Palm Beach Co.... We can keep people alive... bill would come up this week - ironic... I told sen. Webster this... we're stepping on separation of powers... courts have made decisions... but I read this Jefferson quotes... legislator's duty.. take care of someone when they cna't care for themselves... WHAT IS LIFE AND WHAT IS DEATH? ... Determine when we help someone to continue living... method to allow life to be taken away BY STARVATION... UNacceptable and call it legal... complex question to legislate policy to allow someone to live... been 7-8 days... cardiac arrest(?) ... err on side of caution... when we makethat determ. what death is... we've already done it... vegetative state alive or dead... two mths ago... man in veg state adn woke up after 14 yrs and asked for a Big Mac... she has chance of waking.. let's err on side of saving life by using biomed... toughest decision.. but we're elected to make them... sen smith said I DON'T MAKE DECISIONS ON EMAILS>.. i believe the right thing is SAVING life... this is allowing someone to STARVE to death... YOU have my vote.

(My fingers are dying....I can't do this anymore..sorry!)

[diamond6]

These liberals are the first to remove anything pertaining to God, unless they twist it and use it for their purposes.

[lonevoice]

Sen Bennett is up now. Talking about yestday being the anniversary of his mother's death.

[mtbopfuyn]

Any idea how long until the vote? Has the windbagging just started and how many senators are left?

[Graymatter]

"But one thing, bet the parents never disowned her or cheated on her or called her a bitch."

Heck, someone called her Larcenia.
Larcenia Bullard.
Dickens would have loved it.

[Deo volente]

Campbell is a pro-life DEM???

A rare species indeed.

Got to make a donation to his next campaign.

[honeygrl]

The guy up now keeps saying the words "artificially alive." He needs to shut up and sit down.

[Krodg]

I'm probably the only one here still with the ancient 28K modem, as fast as a glacier!

I have a choice here. Either I watch the video only, or I post only.

I won't rant on why I am stuck with such a slow connection.....instead I will pray that the posters that have good connections, give us more details!!!!

[CindyDawg]

I can't see what yall are seeing. How many more to speak before voting?