Jeb Bush intervenes for Schindler-Schiavo

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | August 26, 2003

[yhwhsman]

MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH Jeb Bush intervenes for Schindler-Schiavo Asks for delay to investigate case of brain-disabled Florida woman

Posted: August 26, 2003 1:37 p.m. Eastern

© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com

Flooded with 27,000 e-mails urging him to intervene, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has asked a judge to delay setting a date for removal of a feeding tube sustaining the life of a brain-disabled woman, Terri Schindler-Schiavo.

Gov. Jeb Bush

In a letter, Bush asked Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Judge George W. Greer yesterday to keep her alive until a court-appointed guardian can "independently investigate the circumstances of this case and provide the court with an unbiased view that considers the best interests of Mrs. Schiavo."

On Friday, the Florida Supreme Court refused to intervene in the case, clearing the way for a Sept. 11 hearing in which Greer would set a date for removal of the feeding tube.

Bush said, according to a copy of the letter obtained by WND, he normally would not write a judge concerning a pending legal proceeding but noted the 27 e-mails his office received "reflecting understandable concern for the well being" of Schindler-Schiavo.

"This case represents the disturbing result of a severe family disagreement in extremely trying circumstances," Bush said. "Emotions are high, accusations abound, and at the heart of this public and private maelstrom is a young woman incapable of speaking for herself."

As WorldNetDaily reported, Terri's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler of Gulf Port, Fla., have been locked in a decade-long legal battle with their son-in-law over the care and custody of their daughter, who suffered massive brain damage when she collapsed at her home 13 years ago under unexplained circumstances at the age of 26.

Terri Schindler-Schiavo before her disability.

The bitter dispute over Terri's lack of care became a major euthanasia battle five years ago when her husband Michael Schiavo petitioned the court for permission to have her feeding tube removed, claiming she is in a persistent vegetative state and would not want to be kept alive "artificially." The Schindlers and a number of doctors and therapists believe she could be rehabilitated, but the courts have consistently sided with Schiavo and his lawyer, right-to-die advocate George Felos.

Schindler-Schiavo was hospitalized Sunday for the second time in less than two weeks, CNSNews.com reported yesterday.

"The parents don't know what's going on, but she appears to be in critical condition," family spokeswoman Pamela Hennessy told the news service. "It appears to be pretty serious."

[victim soul]

Thank you Jesus! Thank you Jeb Bush!! Thank you all who are praying and took the time to call or write.

Thank you's are in order for this Culture of Life Governor!!!!

[Coleus]

Freep, ping

This judge needs to hear from "we the people":

ggreer@co.pinellas.fl.us


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/970917/posts?page=58#58

[MHGinTN]

While we await the doctor's response to your 'query', allow me to offer the following.

From the article above (from Polycarp): After winning a medical malpractice claim against Terri's doctor and receiving a cash award, Michael Schiavo suspended all but subsistence care for his wife and petitioned the Pinellas County Circuit Court to allow him to stop providing her nutrition and hydration through a "feeding tube." Terri's parents, siblings and friends have been fighting in court to save her life.
Please note that the law suit against Terri's doctor sought 'rehabilitation' funds as well as funds to care for Terri in medicalfacilities. The flip to asking that the courts remove Terri's feeding tube will allow Michael Schiavo to 'inherit' the funds set aside by the settlement, paid by an insurance company who carried the doctor's malpractice policy.

Terri Schiavo is not in what I have come to define as a persistent vegetative state ... and I do have non-physician experience with the PVS through direct experience helping to care for someone actually in a persistent vegetative state and (my in-depth study done at) the loss of my own brother to irreversible brain blood clot that cascaded within days (in the hospital) into irreversible coma state, bodily alive only because of machines and drugs.

The key appears to revolve around the purposeful lack of rehab care for Terri, yet $750,000 were allocated by the insurance settlement for rehab services! Should Michael Schiavo divorce Terri, the funds would follow Terri, to be used for her maintenance and rehab. THAT is why Michael has not divorced her and refuses to shift the caregiver/guardian role to her parents, the Schindlers ... in my researched opinion, of course.

I have posted at my blog page a letter written to the WND news service by Mister Schindler, Terri's father, if you're interested in his perspective. Click here ...

[aposiopetic]

If the family should wish to keep someone alive, why should that offend anyone outside the family? Certainly helpless and unruly infants are kept alive by the families into which they are born, and we are all the better because of the care given the infants by their families. When the person receiving assistance is an adult, why should our view be any different?

[FITZ]

He has spent the money given by insurance company to this date, but is entitled to more upon her death.

He's nothing less than a murderer, he insists on her dying --- it seems he should somehow be prevented from getting his hands on her money.

[FITZ]

This worthless piece of trash, who calls himself 'husband', has the nerve to claim he has the authority to kill his wife legally. But YET, the piece of sh*t is LIVING with an adulteress/whore.

I wonder what role his live-in lover has played in this --- I'm sure she would like to see the wife die a painful death so she can get her hands on her money. Why can't she and her lover just leave the poor woman alone and be with her family?

[summer]

Hi, I know some people have already seen this important news, but I wanted to let you know about it in case you missed it. If you already saw it, please forgive this ping here. Thanks, summer

[Alamo-Girl]

Bump!

[lilylangtree]

Thanks.

[hocndoc]

She is not a vegetable - or wasn't when the video I watched was taped.
And who knows how any of us would react? Especially mothers?

[Ann Archy]

Greer will have blood on his hands just like that evil husband of hers AND the evil attorney.

[Coleus]

Thank you Governor Bush, since you are now a Catholic and member of the K of C, you will have to forget what your father believes, now please stop the turtle worship and let's protect humans created in the image of God.

 

Title X - Quotable Quotes
Read My Lips!

We need to make population and family planning household words. We need to take the sensationalism out of this topic so that it can no longer be usedby militants who have no real knowledge of the voluntary nature of the program but, rather, are using it as a political stepping stone. If family planning is anything, it is a public health matter.

Rep. George Bush, 1969
 

Most important is that legislation be recognized as ... a health-care service mechanism and not a population control mechanism.

Rep. George Bush, 1970
 

As we amended the Social Security Act in 1967, I was impressed by the sensible approach of Alan Guttmacher, the obstetrician who served as president of Planned Parenthood. It was ridiculous, he told the committee, to blame mothers on welfare for having too many children when the clinics and hospitals they used were absolutely prohibited from saying a word about birth control. So we took the lead in Congress in providing money and urging -- in fact requiring -- that in the United States family planning services be available for every woman, not just the private patient with her own gynecologist.

George Bush (Foreword to World Population Crisis by Phyllis Piotrow), 1973

 

As we amended the Social Security Act in 1967, I was impressed by the sensible approach of Alan Guttmacher, the obstetrician who served as president of Planned Parenthood. It was ridiculous, he told the committee, to blame mothers on welfare for having too many children when the clinics and hospitals they used were absolutely prohibited from saying a word about birth control. So we took the lead in Congress in providing money and urging -- in fact requiring -- that in the United States family planning services be available for every woman, not just the private patient with her own gynecologist.

George Bush (Foreword to World Population Crisis by Phyllis Piotrow), 1973

 

In the JEB state of FL, a turtle egg is more revered and protected than a human being created in God's image.  Florida Law Chapter 370

Mess with a turtle egg and get a yr. in jail and a $50K fine, abort a child, get paid $750.00, I think JEB Bush and the US congress should address this issue. And we wonder why there is NO respect for HUMAN life created in God's image. OK, every in the pool and flap your fins and keep your offspring buried in the sand; we're turtles now.

[SAMWolf]

Thanks summer. I missed this story.

[Ann Archy]

The judge will be invited to Democrat's homes.......and that would seem to matter to him. He's an accessory if he pulls her feeding tube.

[Ann Archy]

Thanks for the phone numbers.

[Ann Archy]

I've read that the killer husband is living with a woman who he has a child with.....is this correct?

[hocndoc]

I wasn't complete in that last answer.
No one should act - purposefully act - to end another's life unless there is no way to prevent that life from killing others, no matter what condition the other person is in. We humans should never be placed in an artificial position of determining the "worth" of another person's life. Doctors, medical personnell and family members of the helpless have a higher duty than most.

If Terri had made the decision before her illness that she did not want a tube, or if the doctors had decided that a tube would have done nothing but prolong suffering, then an argument can, with great care, be made that it is permissable not to supply food and water artificially.

But, in this case, there is no Advanced Directive, there is a tube in place. There are funds specifically marked to pay for Terri's care and people who love her and would care for her even if there were no insurance monies.

It is not moral to remove a functioning tube. It is not moral to with hold nutrients that Terri has "paid for." (Insurance) It is definitely not moral to act through the courts and medical care system to do so.

Can you imagine what the aides and nurses at the nursing home are going thru?

Terri's husband should be "allowed" by the courts to turn her guardianship over to her family.

[yhwhsman]

They're probably just too busy is all, what with trying to get that guy off death row and all. (/sarcasm)

[yhwhsman]

"Because of the intensity of the media on the Paul Hill case, because it involves the fact that he had killed an abortionist, that generated a lot of media coverage,"

I see, so media coverage determines the bishop's moral stands. "Sorry baby, if we support you we just won't get any air time."

Is it any wonder why people would rather believe in gaia than God?

[yhwhsman]

Glenn Beck is where I originally heard about Terri, last summer. Yes, he has been at the forefront in the fight for Terri's life. Without his dedication, with as little media coverage as Terri is getting, I believe no one would have ever heard of Terri Schiavo.

Glenn Beck is one helluva guy. I haven't heard his show for a very long time, is he planning any kind of event in support of Terri? I desperately wish my circumstances would allow me to go down to support Terri in person.