End-of-Life Dispute Re-Emerges as 2016 Issue for Bush
Jeb Bush was preparing to release the emails he sent and received as Florida governor when he was excoriated by a letter-writer to The Miami Herald.
The headline: “Don’t trust Jeb Bush with the power of the presidency.”
The subject of many of the emails was Terri Schiavo. The letter-writer was her husband, Michael.
Bush’s effort to stop Michael Schiavo from removing his brain-damaged wife’s feeding tube was a defining moment of Bush’s time in office.
Bush, a devout Catholic, sided with Terri Schiavo’s parents in the end-of-life dispute and reached for unprecedented authority to intervene. Michael Schiavo said his wife did not want to be kept alive artificially.
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