Jeb Bush Asks Supreme Court to Take Up Schiavo Case
On Wednesday, the governor's attorneys filed an appeal with the
nation's highest court in which they argued that the Florida Supreme
Court ruling has "ominous" implications for "the most
vulnerable of our citizens who cannot speak for themselves."
George Felos, the attorney for Schiavo's husband, Michael, called the
appeal another delaying tactic by the governor. He said he doubts the
U.S. Supreme Court will agree to hear the case.
"I think every independent legal scholar who has looked at this
case and the decision of the Florida Supreme Court will agree there is
no real arguable basis for federal jurisdiction," Felos said.
Schiavo is at the center of one of the nation's longest and most
bitter right-to-die battles, a dispute that has pitted her husband
against her parents, Bob and Mary Schindler.
Schiavo, who will turn 41 on Friday, suffered severe brain damage
after collapsing in 1990 because of an eating disorder. Some doctors
say she is in a persistent vegetative state with no hope for recovery,
while doctors brought in by her parents say there is a chance she
could regain some faculties.
She left no written instructions, but her husband has argued that she
made it clear before her collapse that she would never want to be kept
alive artificially. Her parents dispute that.
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