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The World and Everything In It

Lawless: Episode 3 - No more rabbits

The World and Everything In It

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4.87K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The Schindlers have run out of options in the courts. Now, they’re calling up everyone they can think of in every position of power in the state. Soon, governor Jeb Bush is involved. Then the Florida state legislature. Politicians start debating a bill tailor made to keep Terri alive…but critics say it makes a mockery of the Constitution.To listen to Episode 4 and 5 now, visit the Lawless podcast feed here.Additional support comes from Compelled Podcast. Listen to unique and compelling testimonies like Ron Adkins, who at the age of 19, was sentenced to almost 500 years in prison. Ron's violence eventually led him to solitary confinement for over a decade where he was told he would remain until he died. Condemned by society and separated from humanity, Ron knew that he was utterly alone... or was he?Or listen to the testimony of Virginia Prodan, a human rights attorney in Communist Romania who came face-to-face with an assassin sent to kill her for defending Christians. Every story on Compelled is true, vivid, and told by the person who lived it - and saw God working through it. Listen on your favorite podcast app or at CompelledPodcast.com (http://www.compelledpodcast.com/).

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0:00.0

4 Shindlers are crammed into a Toyota 4Runner, Bob, Mary, Bobby and Suzanne.

0:14.4

Suzanne's husband Michael Vita-Damo is driving.

0:17.5

They're speeding from Pinellas Park, Florida to Plant City, 43 miles away.

0:22.8

The trip is part of a desperate rescue attempt.

0:25.6

This week a stunning decision by the Florida Courts on a life or death situation.

0:30.4

A feeding tube was the only thing keeping Terri's Guiavo alive after a heart attack 13 years ago.

0:37.1

This week her husband won a court battle against Terri's family to have the tube remove

0:42.3

this past Wednesday.

0:44.1

After the October 2002 PBS trial, Judge George Greer ordered Michael Shivo to remove Terri's

0:50.0

feeding tube that following January.

0:52.8

Then Greer stayed his own ruling, giving the Shindlers a chance to appeal.

0:57.5

They did.

0:58.7

All the way to the Florida Supreme Court.

1:01.2

They lost every step of the way.

1:03.8

Now Terri's feeding tube is out and after a solid year of setbacks for the Shindlers,

1:08.8

this seemed like the end.

1:10.8

Until they learned that Governor Jeb Bush was in the area, he'd come for a groundbreaking

1:15.4

ceremony in Plant City.

1:17.6

They heard this news outside Florida hospice of the Sun Coast from a tall, lanky man

1:22.6

wearing cowboy boots in a suit.

1:25.2

The man had handed a cell phone to Suzanne.

1:28.2

Call the governor he urged, ask for a meeting.

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