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.

[honeygrl]

" they absolutely should have the right to keep her alive even if she is comatose IF and only IF they agree to take care of ALL medical and care costs. "

This is what they've been wanting to do all along.

[sweetliberty]

"What's happening in Florida resembles the vigils we often see prior to an execution. This isn't an execution though. This is the rational ending to a human being who all the medical evidence says can no longer meaningfully participate in or appreciate life."

Good Lord! This woman, the author, is either the most naive of "journalists" or is typical of the people who are the creators and sustainers of the problem. Not sure which. Get a grip Cheryl! This IS an execution and there is NOTHING rational about it. Meaningfully participate in life??? By whose definition? Yours? Your way of thinking was prevalent in Germany prior to Hitler's rise to power. You might want to rethink your position, or YOU could be next in line on the starvation train given an ill-fated domestic squabble.

[CWW]

Oh please, cut the Pope some slack. He barely is able to handle his own informaties and you act like he has personal knowledge of this case -- one of 900 million Catholics!! I know one thing, more peole are praying for his death than Terris! (May they both live long!)

The Pope is one of the very few Church leaders who consistently has spoken to the issue of the culture of death that infects this country, whether it be abortion, euthanasia, etc.

Did you not just see the beatification of Mother Theresa of Calcuta this weekend by the Holy Father specifically because of her great work for the dying poor?! Think before you write. Try praying for Terri instead of throwing stones at other Christians!

[Diva Betsy Ross]

I would like to know who got to Mr.Bryd as well.

[viaveritasvita]

I no longer know what to pray for other than God's mercy for Terri, and for whatever His will in this may be.

I wildly fluctuate between quietly praying for God to intervene (but His will be done) and high-blood-pressure induced rants!

It's quite possible that Terri will be the sacrificial lamb (so to speak) for the groups fighting the "right to die/culture of death" side.

We have to be much more vigilent, vocal, strident, whatever in this fight against euthanasia than those who were fighting against the Roe v Wade decision (both before and since) because I don't think God is going to just sit back and let us kill even more people! Many of us believe that God's hand of protection is being lifted from America.

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[sweetliberty]

"She's in a form of limbo, and ought to be allowed to pass peacefully from it."

But that isn't what's happening Cheryl. You are ignorant. She is being forced to die while fighting to live and there is nothing peaceful about a death by starvation and dehydration.

[Deo volente]

""The legal ways, the remedies, don't exist," Bush said Monday. "We've tried every possible legal remedy and have been shut down by the courts."



THE COURTS ARE THE DAMN PROBLEM HERE, MR. GOVERNOR!!!

Governor, did you miss that day in 7th grade civics when "checks and balances"
was discussed?

If Jeb had been around at the time of the "Dred Scott" decision, he would probably have said,
"The Supreme Court has spoken and declared that slaves are not persons, so we must respect their judgment."

Now he might as well be saying, through his craven inaction,

"The almighty Judge Greer has spoken, and we must get in line and bow to his infinite wisdom."

[honeygrl]

Lawmakers were eyeing "moratorium on the removal of nutrition and hydration from those who do not have a written directive and where there's a contest among the family about how to deal with this," Byrd said. "So it would be a very, very narrow approach, but it would be one that would apply to Terri's case," he said.

That is from the article in post #506. A direct quote from Byrd. So it looks like he very likely gave the family false hope.

[viaveritasvita]

AMEN AND AMEN!!! Go, DV, go!!

Mine was short and to the point:

Governor Bush,

My God, man!! How can you sleep at night knowing that you can stop the starvation of Terri Schiavo and have yet to come to her rescue!?? The woman was denied Holy Communion/last rites in America! Do something before she dies!

Sweet and Budge: See DV's letter to Bush at the post I'm replying to.

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[Pegita]

The source for this thread is firstcoastnews.com, listed at the beginning, which said the information about Terri's Bill and Speaker Byrd came from the Schindler-Schiavo Foundation ...

[sweetliberty]

"Hubby also has life insurance policy. More info on family web site http://www.terrisfight.org"

My understanding is that the dirtbag is in the insurance business himself. In any event, I suspect that with evidence of foul play on his part, he would forfeit any inheritance. It has also been suggested that it is highly likely that he may have tidy sum available to him for book or movie rights once Terri's gone. He has plenty of motivation for wanting her dead with no autopsy. We must pray that he not get away with it, if he is indeed gulty of wrongdoing, which he may or may not be. But at best, he looks at least as guilty as Scott Peterson.

[Humidston]

If Terri dies, I hope and PRAY the Shindlers file lawsuits against the hospice, Jim King, Michael Schiavo, the state of Florida, and everyone else who was involved in this travesty of justice. ....No, involved in this MURDER.

[Deo volente]

Short and to the point is better.

Everybody keep hounding the governor.
He has another thing coming if he thinks this atrocity will go away anytime soon.

If I were Jeb, I'd be asking the advice of some good POLITICAL consultants, not the legal idiots he seems to have retained.

Death by starvation and dehydration doesn't play well in Middle America living rooms.



I've got to go to work now, will keep praying for a MIRACLE.

[WackySam]

How could anyone intervene if Byrd's office has said that there was no bill in the first place?

In my discussion with Byrd's office they never said there wasn't a "Terri's Bill", only that he would not submit it. I am sure that there was something floating around because they said he would support it if it came up. How could he know that he would support it if he hadn't read it?

[sweetliberty]

Amen! You and me and few thousand other FReepers and friends of Terri.

[isrul]

Not throwing stones. Just stating fact. Those of whom he spoke about before were also only single individuals.

I have respected him for speaking out against the culture of death.

I recall an earlier post recounting a call made to the Vatican.

The response was that it must be left up tyo the American bishops.

Now the cleric on the phone was not infirm but I don't believe neither the Vatican nor the Pope can claim it's not my job, given their past history of attempted intervention.

As far as the Popes health is concerned, he does miraculously well for someone so frail. He was well enough to participate in the recent celebrations.

I don't believe a brief statement would have unduly taxed his health.

I give no one a free pas on this one. Those who do not speak out abet those committing this crime.

[pollywog]

Merryday said he intends to issue a decision by the day's end.

Day's END??? like soon??????????

[Theodore R.]

With Byrd running for the U.S. Senate, who knows what he is thinking? He couldn't be thinking about how he could win the GOP Senate nomination at a time like this, you don't think?

[Saundra Duffy]

What's a Republican Party for?

To support pro abortion candidates and causes (Schwarzenegger for gov of CA) and to let the democrats crap all over our values and our families.

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

BTW, in case no one has said it yet, you were right.