[Canadian Outrage]

We have to MAKE SURE that they are set straight TA!! The Governor has a very specific and actually easy way to solve this problem. He simply takes control of her protection under the Department of Children and Families which also INCLUDES the disabled!! HOW can they keep saying that???

[TAdams8591]

I and others have told them during our phone calls. Yet the next time you call they say the same thing. "We are doing everything that's legally possible." When you mention the Governor can take Terri under Protective Custody they say uh-huh and ask you for your name and phone number and promise to pass along the message.

This time I asked also them to support Bill 701 introduced by Dennis Baxley that would OUTLAW deyhydration and STARVATION as a method of euthanasia. Many of the aides are not aware of it and claim the Representatives aren't either.

Representative Gelber's aide told me that Gelber did not support or vote for Terri's law and probably would not vote for Bill 701. I told her he would lose votes next time 'round then. She said that was my opinion and I told her there are many elderly voters in Florida and it is a fact that he will lose votes over this. I know voters who will no longer support him for his votes on these kind of issues.

The aide of another representative, very sympathetic toward Terri's case stated that if Bill 701 is ipso facto, it will be found UNCONSTITUTIONAL. I reminded her it is UNCONSTITUTIONAL to starve someone to death.

Feeding tubes are not extraordinary means.