Jeb's agenda or Right of Privacy?

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This entire thing is out of control. Jeb Bush is using his clout to pacify the religious right.

I thought it was Jeb's legal obligation to take this position!

Re: Jeb's agenda or Right of Privacy?



Let me get this straight... Jeb going into people's bedrooms/hospital rooms and telling them that they are not allowed to terminate their lives ... This somehow protects their right to privacy?

Funny how an overarching beaurocratic government can word things to say the opposite of what they really mean. Like how the "patriot act" is nearly the exact opposite of what our founders would call patriotism. Intrusive government interference into the private lives of civillians is also somehow worded as "privacy."

I have never understood the Christian right's insistance on requiring people who will never get out of a coma to be hooked onto an EXPENSIVE machine and not allowed to die naturally - even against the will of their own loved ones. Talk about sick animated corpse. If I am ever a vegetable, I don't want my family to be legally forced into paying doctors to pump vitals through my dead flesh.

Miller- The whole issue is between Terri's husband and her parents. He wants to pull the plug, stating that Terri would never want to live like she is. Her folks think that with treatment, she will improve, which, IMO, is a pipe dream. Jeb Bush had absolutely no business sticking his nose into what is a private matter.

Do you know what the upshot of this case is in Florida? The hospitals bug you to make sure that you have a copy of a Living Will in your hospital records. Lawyers advertise all over the place about Living Wills and Health Care Proxies.

Here here, Portal Star. I completely agree. This is just another grab at trying to erase our freedoms as human beings. Yes, doctors do make an obligation to preserve life as long as possible, but at some point, with terminal cases, I don't see the logic in holding on.

Erm, and to reiterate what Phoenix addressed to Miller, it is certainly not Jeb's legal right to do this.

Who is the patient's court-appointed guardian?

I heard on the radio that Jeb had the legal obligation to do this. I figured it must be a Florida law to protect the patient's rights.

A judge recently over-ruled the one time(as Jeb calls it) Terri law, and, of course, the guv will appeal. I don't know of one state that allows a governor to make a law. That's the domain of the legislature.