“Am I missing something else?”
Many believe he could have done more at the end, despite losing at every turn in the courts, like taking her into protective custody.
He wasn’t King of Florida. But he was certainly on her and her parent’s side. Michael Schiavo hates Jeb and has said he could have killed Terri sooner if it wasn’t for him.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/01/jeb-bush-terri-schiavo-114730_Page2.html#.VTFDHvnF98F
...on October 15, 2003, Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube came out. Judge’s orders. She would die within two weeks. This stage of the case looks in retrospect like the start of a test. Just how much power did Jeb Bush have?
HB 35E was filed after 8 at night on October 20. Many lawmakers already were gone for the day. Gelber, the state representative from Miami, put his suit back on at his apartment in Tallahassee and hustled back to the Capitol. Fellow Democrats gathered around as the attorney and former prosecutor began to read the bill one of Bush’s staff attorneys had helped to write....
But it passed in the House, and it passed in the Senate.
Bush signed it, and Chapter No. 2003-418, “Terri’s Law,” as it came to be known, was official less than 22 hours after it had been introduced. He then issued Executive Order 03-201. “The Florida Department of Law Enforcement shall serve a copy of this Executive Order upon the medical facility currently providing care for Theresa Schiavo,” it stated. A police-escorted ambulance whisked her from her hospice in Pinellas Park to a nearby hospital to have her feeding tube put back in....