Posted on 04/22/2006 4:57:49 AM PDT by 8mmMauser
TAMPA - The political debate over Terri Schiavo's death is emerging as an issue in the 2006 election campaign.
Attorney General Charlie Crist told an audience in West Palm Beach on Thursday that as governor, he would have stayed out of the fight between Schiavo's husband and parents about whether to keep the brain-damaged woman alive with a feeding tube.
A 15-year legal battle appeared to be over last year when Congress, President Bush and Gov. Jeb Bush pressed to intervene legislatively to keep Schiavo alive. Ultimately, the courts sided with Schiavo's husband. She died of dehydration on March 31, 2005, after her feeding tube was removed.
"I am pro-life, and I respect life," Crist, a Republican candidate for governor, said at a gathering of the nonpartisan Forum Club of the Palm Beaches. "There are some decisions that ought to be left to God and family. Had I have been governor, I would have not done the same thing" as Bush.
In an interview, Crist minimized his differences with the governor.
Crist's Republican primary opponent, Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher, stood with Gov. Bush last year in trying to pass legislation to keep the feeding tube in after courts had ordered it removed.
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That is not a decision for anyone but God.
Yes, Jehovah Witness' say the same thing as a basis for refusing blood transfusions for their children.
Of course if this was ONLY God's decision, we wouldn't be discussing it now.
The fact is man is, and has been making these decisions for many years.
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