Hurst then directly addressed Davis, asking why he had supported federal intervention in the Terri Schiavo feeding-tube removal case. Davis replied that one member of Congress could have halted the action and that Democrats were complicit in allowing the case to be taken to federal court, where it was later defeated.
"We do it for people on death row, why not Terri Schiavo?" he asked, winning loud cheers from his supporters in the audience.
Davis and Hurst duke it out for 11th District congressional seat
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One woman asked the former sheriff in absentia to explain how he thinks it was wrong of Congress to intervene in the life of Terry Schiavo when he doesn't fight the Republican party's wish to interfere with the private relationship of women and their doctors or allow pharmacists not to fill legal prescriptions. Her question was met with applause.
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