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  • Regret plagues King after Schiavo vote

    02/10/2004 10:55:17 AM PST · by tutstar · 87 replies · 356+ views
    St Pete Times ^ | 02/10/04 | By ADAM C. SMITH, Times Political Editor
    The Senate president says he bowed to pressure to pass a law that would reinsert Terri Schiavo's feeding tube. ST. PETERSBURG - The phone calls and e-mails flooded into state Senate offices so fast and furious last year they crashed the phone and computer systems. Their message: Save Terri Schiavo. State senators responded by following the lead of the state House and governor to pass an unprecedented law to keep the Pinellas County woman alive. Within hours a feeding tube was reinserted into Schiavo, whom courts had found to be in a persistent vegetative state and whose husband had...