Ben Carson Says Trying to Save Terri Schiavo’s Life Was “Much Ado About Nothing”

http://www.lifenews.com/ ^ | November 16,2015 | STEVEN ERTELT

[NKP_Vet]

Ben Carson may be a pro-life Republican presidential candidate when it comes to the issue of abortions, but new comments the doctor made over the weekend about the Terri Schiavo case are causing concerns for pro-life voters.

Carson thinks the federal and state governments overreached when they attempted to protect Terri Schiavo from a painful 14-day starvation and dehydration death. Despite the best efforts of pro-life lawmakers in Congress and the Florida state legislature, where lawmakers approved pro-life laws to allow Terri’s family to take their case to federal courts and to allow then-Governor Jeb Bush to try to protect her, Terri’s estranged husband won a court order to euthanize her against her will.

The Washington Post reports that a local reporter caught up with Carson about the infamous case when he was in town in Florida for a speaking engagement. From the report:

“We face those kinds of issues all the time and while I don’t believe in euthanasia, you have to recognize that people that are in that condition do have a series of medical problems that occur that will take them out,” he said. “Your job [as a doctor] is to keep them comfortable throughout that process and not to treat everything that comes up.”

When the reporter asked whether Carson thought it was necessary for Congress to intervene, he said: “I don’t think it needed to get to that level. I think it was much ado about nothing.”

Carson’s comments are very upsetting to TerrI Schiavo’s brother, Bobby Schindler, who is now a pro-life advocate working directly with disabled patients and their families to protect them from having their right to life revoked as happened to Terri.

[exit82]

Terri Schiavo was not a nothing, and shame on anyone who would even utter such a thing.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

What a psycho!

[kanawa]

The persons that do care likely either view pro-life media such as lifenews.com
or will hear it word of mouth from their like-minded friends.

[Fred Hayek]

Ben Carson has just lost all credibility.

[DoughtyOne]

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[Thibodeaux]

amen..... she was dead Jim

[unlearner]

I don’t think this exposes him as liberal, just ignorant and living in a medical expert bubble.

I have talked with brilliant doctors who refused to believe plain facts and clear evidence when alternatives to mainstream medicine healed people, even including chiropractic medicine.

Carson does not have all the facts here. But as someone seeking to lead the free world, he should have a better command of them.

I have followed and liked Carson as a possible outside candidate from the time he first publicly rebuked the president. However, this is just one more in a long string of disappointments.

I could still hold my nose and vote for Carson if he emerged as the GOP nominee, but he is not my first choice.

Cruz is the most consistent conservative. He is my first choice.

Among the outsiders who at least talk conservatively, Trump has the best shot at winning. So I am hoping like many here for a Trump / Cruz ticket.

[bestintxas]

Disqualified. we do not need any liberals in DC to lead us, as we are trying to rid ourselves of the ones there.

Next candidate, please.

[dem bums]

"Your job [as a doctor] is to keep them comfortable throughout that process and not to treat everything that comes up."

Ugh, I hadn't seen that part of his statement - that makes it even worse. One argument that the pro-murder side made in the Schiavo case was that starving and dehydrating Terri would cause no harm, because her brain was so damaged that she would feel no pain due to the starvation and dehydration.

But here, Carson is admitting that the doctor's job is to keep the patient comfortable--which necessarily means that the patient is capable of NOT being comfortable (i.e., is capable of pain)--and yet he's STILL calling it no big deal.

Disgusting. Absolutely disgusting. Forget this guy...

[FR_addict]

She was not DEAD. The videos proved that she was very much alive. She had brain damage, but she was a long way from dead. It was so heart breaking to see her laugh at her father’s joke.

[trisham]

He’s not pro-life.

[FR_addict]

He’s a doctor. There is no excuse for this comment.

[FR_addict]

He just lost the support of his base.

[FR_addict]

He just lost the support of his base.

[FR_addict]

Ping to Terri supporters!!!

[FR_addict]

More Terri supporters!!!

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[Sun]

Ben Carson is not our guy, that’s for sure.

[RKBA Democrat]

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