Jeb Bush: No intervention for Schiavo

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | October 14, 2003 | Art Moore

[Momaw Nadon]

Is it not possible for Gov. Jeb Bush to grant a pardon???

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[Conservative Iowan]

Very disappointing. It's a shame that Jeb wouldn't make a courageous decision in this case.

[alancarp]

"Our government has committed these decisions to the judicial branch, and we must respect that process."

Respect it until it is illegal or immoral: somebody's life is at stake here. If the husband opts to abrogate his RESPONSIBILITY, then certainly allow somebody else willing to take over. It's as simple as that.

Except that some one is going to die because the law and common sense are strangers to one another.

[mongrel]

No, it is not possible to grant a pardon, because technically this is not the state condemning her to death. However wrongheaded it may be, it is the judicial system saying that Terri has the right to stop lifesaving measures. Since the court has ruled Terri cannot make her decisions, her husband is given the freedom to make those decisions.

[verity]

Your heart is in the right place; however, you do not have a grasp on reality!

[mongrel]

As I said on another post, if you're pushing for Jeb to go outside the law, you have just as much responsibility to stop it as he does. Why don't you do something about it?

[mict42]

This is what I've been saying for some time. Doesn't take a jury to convict a person to a death sentence?

[sarasota]

Perhaps Jeb should consider what it must be like to be Terri. He too will carry her blood on his hands.

[Ronin]

I am very disappointed. I thought Jeb had more balls than this.

[Spiff]

Jeb Bush should call an emergency session of the Florida Legislature He should get them to pass a law which states that food and hydration cannot be considered "life support" in the context of what can be removed when a person is in a so-called "vegetative" state or brain dead. Once passed, he should sign it today and in the meantime post state troopers outside the door of Terri's room and not let anyone remove the port or the feeding tube.

[Ferret Fawcet]

Yes... from what I understand all Jeb has to do is order the DCF to intervene- the circumstances of this case allows for that.

[shadowman99]

If Jeb cannot get a handle on this he will not have my vote
if he ever runs for President.

[Momaw Nadon]

Your heart is in the right place; however, you do not have a grasp on reality!

Is there nothing that Gov. Jeb Bush can do to save Terri?

An innocent person will be allowed to die when it doesn't have to be that way, and I disagree with what is about to happen.

I'll take "not having a grasp on reality" as a badge of honor.

[spectre]

Doesn't the gov have the power for a last minute reprive? Can't he stay the execution. That's what this is.

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[Arthur McGowan]

I'm with you. I think Jeb, supposedly a Catholic, should be excommunicated. He is no better than a guard standing by the gas ovens at Auschwitz, "following orders."

[Onelifetogive]

He should get them to pass a law which states that food and hydration cannot be considered "life support...

Makes one wonder if "air" could be considered "life-support."

Could Andrea Yate's lawyers have argued that when she held her children under water in the tub...she was simply "removing life-support"?

[right wing]

I'm with you. I think Jeb, supposedly a Catholic, should be excommunicated. He is no better than a guard standing by the gas ovens at Auschwitz, "following orders."

Excellent point. I really cannot believe this is happening. Deliberately starving someone to death is cruel and unusual punishment, not to mention murder.

[Spiff]

Makes one wonder if "air" could be considered "life-support." Could Andrea Yate's lawyers have argued that when she held her children under water in the tub...she was simply "removing life-support"?

Maintaining body temperature could be considered life support too. Maybe she should not be kept inside during the winter and instead left outside in the cold to die. Obviously, by not exposing her to the elements they are keeping her alive.