Byline: JACKIE HALLIFAX Associated Press
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- The Florida House voted late Monday to give Gov. Jeb Bush the power to intervene in the case of a brain-damaged woman whose feeding tube was removed last week by her husband's order.
The House voted 68-23 in favor of the bill. The state Senate planned to take it up today.
The measure would give the state's governor 15 days to order a feeding tube to be reinserted in cases such as Terri Schiavo's. The governor's power would be limited to cases where a person has left no living will, is in a persistent vegetative state, has had nutrition and hydration tubes removed and where a family member …
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