Florida ACLU Files Brief in Effort to Starve Disabled Woman Jeb Bush Acts To Save Terri Schiavo by David Freddoso Posted Nov 3, 2003 Republican Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida called a special session of the state legislature on October 20 to pass a law tailored to save a 39-year-old St. Petersburg woman—who is brain-damaged but suffering no life-threatening illness—from court-ordered starvation. The woman, Terri Schiavo, faced slow death at the order of her husband Michael Schiavo, who is living with another woman with whom he expects his second child. Terri had gone without food or water for six days...