As governor, Bush didn’t shy away from controversy – or his faith-driven views on life. And in the case of Terri Schiavo, a Florida woman on life support who had been declared brain-dead by doctors, Bush got involved in the legal battle. In 2003, after Mrs. Schiavo’s feeding tube was removed, the Florida legislature passed a bill granting Bush the right to intervene. He did, ordering the tube reinserted. The law was eventually found unconstitutional. Schiavo died in 2005.
Bush also approved Florida’s “Choose Life” license plate. In 2005, he signed a measure requiring parental notification for teenage girls before an abortion.
Bush was raised Episcopal, but in the 1990s converted to Roman Catholicism, his wife’s faith.
