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Freep this poll -- the "Rev." BarryLynn of the paradoxically named "Americans United for Separation of Church and State" and his other poor comrades afflicted with Separation Anxiety, are now trying to have government establish their own anti-god religion by forcing Florida public schoolchildren not to discover the magic of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by literary master C.S. Lewis.

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- A judge ruled Thursday that the state's social services agency cannot delay the removal of the feeding tube keeping brain-damaged Terri Schiavo alive. The Department of Children & Families had asked for a 60-day delay in the removal of the feeding tube, now scheduled March 18. The agency said it wanted time to investigate allegations of abuse and neglect by the woman's husband, Michael Schiavo. But Circuit Judge George W. Greer ruled that the agency's attempt to get involved at this point was inappropriate and "appears to be brought for the purpose of circumventing the court's...

Tallahassee, FL (LifeNews.com) -- Florida Governor Jeb Bush may have found a method of helping Terri Schiavo, the disabled woman at the center of a national euthanasia controversy. The Florida Department of Children & Families investigated a way to intervene in the case on Wednesday, just hours after Bush told reporters in a press conference that he would do everything legally possible to help Terri's parents prevent her estranged husband from starving her to death. Details of just how DCF would get involved were not yet available, according to an Associated Press report. Also on Wednesday, Circuit Court Judge George...

CLEARWATER - Terri Schiavo will continue to receive nourishment at least until Friday afternoon while a judge ponders the latest requests to keep the brain-damaged woman alive. Meanwhile, the state Department of Children & Families has suddenly asked to intervene in the seven-year-old legal dispute over whether Schiavo would want to be kept alive after 15 years in what most doctors say is a persistent vegetative state. A DCF attorney filed a "petition for intervention" minutes before Circuit Judge George Greer took the bench Wednesday to hear Bob and Mary Schindler's request that he hold off on allowing the removal...

Clearwater, FL (LifeNews.com) -- With time and legal options running out, the parents of Terri Schiavo have started a 24 hour prayer vigil outside the Florida hospice where she lives. Bob and Mary Schindler and Terri's bother and sister have been joined by dozens of pro-life advocates at the Woodside Hospice in St. Petersburg, where Terri lives. Meanwhile, a pro-life activist asked by the Schindlers to help their cause is appealing to the Florida legislature to give them a hand. Randall Terry is hoping Florida Governor Jeb Bush will ask the state legislature to convene in a special session to...

This is in response to the continued court rulings against the life of Terri Schiavo, and the U.S. Supreme Court' s refusal to hear the case brought by Gov. Jeb Bush to defend the legitimacy of Terri' s Law. The opinion is flawed and outrageous, and it has far reaching implications for the euthanasia movement nationwide.

Good morning, freepers. As you may already know, this is where we place links to other Terri threads at Free Republic and other breaking news about Terri Schindler-Schiavo. In addition, this is a place to meet and plan ways to use grassroots activism to help Terri's Fight. If you are a newbie to Terri's Fight, I urge you to visit http://www.terrisfight.org where you can subscribe to their newsletter, can get up to speed on the court cases and the very long struggle. As far as what can Free Republic do for Terri's Fight, in the November Dailies Thread (here), please...

'Terri's Law' struck down http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/09/23/shiavo.ap/index.html TALLAHASSEE, Florida (AP) -- The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a law that was rushed through the Legislature last fall to keep a severely brain-damaged woman hooked up to a feeding tube against her husband's wishes. The unanimous court said the law that kept Terri Schiavo alive violated the separation of powers between the judicial branch and the legislative and executive branches.

<p>The latest and perhaps last chapter in the long legal story of Terri Schiavo is to open Tuesday, when the Florida Supreme Court (news - web sites) hears nationally televised arguments in the far-reaching right-to-die case.</p> <p>There is only one thing on which the dozens of lawyers representing Gov. Jeb Bush or Schiavo's husband agree: The stakes are high.</p>

Fight over brain-damaged woman heads to Florida Supreme Court By Vickie Chachere The Associated Press August 26, 2004 CLEARWATER — The battle over Terri Schiavo's life has been a captivating saga with almost soap opera-like qualities, but when the Florida Supreme Court hears arguments in the case Tuesday it will also be a day for weighty legal issues. The seven justices will not be asked whether the 40-year-old brain-damaged woman should be allowed to live or die. Instead, the question before the court is whether the law that Gov. Jeb Bush signed in October to keep her alive violates her...

TAMPA, Fla. — The parents of a severely brain-damaged woman at the center of a right-to-die case say her husband has barred them from visiting her. They are asking a judge to intervene. The lawsuit is the latest salvo in the long legal battle between Bob and Mary Schindler and Terri Schiavo's (search) husband, Michael -- his wife's legal guardian who is fighting to remove the feeding tube that keeps her alive.

Bush Argues For Schiavo Evidence By DAVID SOMMER dsommer@tampatrib.com Published: Jan 21, 2004 CLEARWATER - Gov. Jeb Bush told an appeals court Tuesday that he cannot defend his right to keep Terri Schiavo alive without gathering evidence and questioning witnesses. Bush wants to know why Michael Schiavo was able to win a ``seven-figure award'' in a medical malpractice case over his wife's 1990 heart failure without telling the jury in that case that she would not want to be kept alive with a feeding tube, the governor said in a pleading filed with the 2nd District Court of Appeal. ``Why...

Bush Seeks Probe Of 10 Hang-Ups In Schiavo Case By DAVID SOMMER dsommer@tampatrib.com CLEARWATER - Gov. Jeb Bush wants an independent investigator to take a closer look at how Terri Schiavo became ill and the suitability of her husband to serve as her guardian. In letters to the chief judge of the Pinellas-Pasco circuit and to University of South Florida Professor Jay Wolfson, Bush said he wants Wolfson to answer a series of questions not directly addressed in Wolfson's earlier investigation of whether Schiavo is so severely brain damaged that she would not want to be kept alive by a...

Judge calls Terri's Law intrusive As the judge hints at striking down the law, players on both sides air their messages to local and national audiences. By WILLIAM R. LEVESQUE, Times Staff Writer Published November 15, 2003 CLEARWATER - A judge Friday harshly criticized Terri's Law as a violation of Terri Schiavo's constitutional right to make her own medical decisions. "Mrs. Schiavo, along with every other citizen of this state, has the right to be left alone in his or her private life by this state's government," said Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Judge Douglas Baird. The law "unquestionably interfered with and intruded...

Nov 14, 2003 Judge Says Case of Brain-Damaged Woman Can Proceed By Mitch Stacy Associated Press Writer CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) - Saying that a brain-damaged woman's constitutional rights are being violated, a state circuit judge Friday rejected an effort by Gov. Jeb Bush to delay a challenge to a law that allowed the governor to order reinsertion of the woman's feeding tube last month. Circuit Judge W. Douglas Baird, after a brief hearing, ruled that Michael Schiavo's lawsuit against Bush can proceed. He ordered an attorney for the governor to submit a brief by Monday defending the constitutionality of the...

Nov 6, 2003 Governor Seeks Dismissal Of Suit Over Terri's Law By DAVID SOMMER dsommer@tampatrib.com CLEARWATER - Gov. Jeb Bush cried foul in the dispute over Terri Schiavo's fate Wednesday, moving to block any rapid court action in the case. A lawsuit filed against Bush by Michael Schiavo should not go forward because the governor was not served legal notice he is being sued, said Kenneth Connor, special counsel for the governor. Also, all such suits against the governor must be filed in Tallahassee, Connor said. ``The governor has a right to a home venue privilege,'' Connor said. Otherwise, Bush...

<p>The death-by-starvation facing Terri Schiavo was averted yesterday when the Florida legislature passed a bill letting Gov. Jeb Bush intervene to save her life. Mrs. Schiavo has been severely mentally disabled since her heart stopped for a time in 1990. Although doctors have called her condition "vegetative," she breathes on her own, her eyes are open and in video clips she appears to respond with smiles to the sound of her mother's voice. That is one ground on which her parents have pleaded with authorities to let their daughter live. But last week her husband ordered her feeding tube removed, and until the legislature acted, Gov. Bush had no authority to override Michael Schiavo's decision.</p>

FL's fabulous gov, Jeb Bush Statement By: GOVERNOR JEB BUSH 2002 Thanksgiving Wednesday, November 27, 2002 “Thanksgiving is our traditional national celebration of all the blessings we enjoy as Americans. Freedom, families and faith are the very foundations of our liberty and our way of life, and I encourage every Floridian to enjoy this holiday weekend in the true spirit of giving thanks. “This holiday began as a celebration of new friends in a New World, and an expression of gratitude for a long journey just completed. Today we can give thanks for having accomplished so much on our national...

In the News Governor's Message FRIDAY, September 06, 2002 MESSAGE FROM GOVERNOR JEB BUSH This week, Lt. Governor Brogan and I were pleased to make two very important education announcements. First, Secretary of Education Jim Horne and Education Commissioner Charlie Crist joined us on Friday to announce the latest FCAT reading scores. The scores, which clearly demonstrate rising student achievement among fourth, eighth, and tenth graders, are very encouraging. From 1998 to 2002, FCAT reading scores have improved significantly in these three grade levels and among African-American, Hispanic, and White regular curriculum students. There have also been steady gains for...

Florida Gov. Bush Orders One of First Known U.S. Female Serial Killers Executed Next Month TALLAHASSEE, Fla. Sept. 5 — Gov. Jeb Bush signed a death warrant Thursday for Aileen Wuornos, a prostitute who killed six men along Florida highways and was one of the nation's first known female serial killers. Her execution was set for Oct. 9. The governor also ordered the Oct. 2 execution of death row inmate Rigoberto Sanchez Velasco, who was condemned for the 1986 murder of a Hialeah girl. With Bush seeking re-election in November, some death penalty critics accused the governor of making capital...