Tricia Rivas had never written to an elected official, but gripped with emotion, she composed an urgent email to Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. “Please save Terri Schiavo!” she wrote from home in Tucson, Ariz., on March 20, 2005. “Do something before it is too late ... please! Every parent is watching this drama unfold ... and will remember the outcome in future elections.” Schiavo would be dead by the end of the month at a hospice near St. Petersburg but not before Bush took a series of actions that, looking back a decade later, are stunning for their breadth and audacity. A governor known for his my-way-or-the-highway approach, and who rarely was challenged by fellow Republicans controlling the...
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