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24 September, 2004
24 September 2004A Florida case involving a brain-damaged woman kept alive against her husband's will, and Gov. Jeb Bush's active support for the woman's parents -- Roman Catholics, like Bush, who adhere to Pope John Paul II's statement in the spring that people in vegetative states must be fed -- is close to resolution. Florida's state Supreme Court ruled yesterday that Bush's order to have the woman's feeding tube reinserted violated the separation of governmental powers. The court wrote that "Terri's Law," hastily passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature after intensive lobbying by religious conservatives last fall, was "'an unconstitutional encroachment on the power that has been reserved for the independent judiciary.'"
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