To the editor:

Regarding Terri Schiavo: President Bush wants all Americans protected and honored? Unless they can't afford medical care, are sentenced to death or are somehow connected with terrorism, I suppose. His hypocrisy and shameless pandering to the religious right knows no bounds. If Terri Schiavo hadn't had her medical care provided for her, she would have died long ago with Bush's blessing, because this president doesn't care whether people have access to medical care or can afford it. Putrid.

CHIP BARBRE, Jackson