Posted on 03/11/2007 7:40:49 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
TAMPA -- He's campaigning hard for support from Republican social conservatives, but presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Saturday he disagreed with the government's intervention in the Terri Schiavo case.
"I think it's probably best to leave these kinds of matters in the hands of the courts," Romney said in a television interview airing today.
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You got it.
But... rather than working to pass something very very close to an unconstitutional bill of attainder in Congress, why didn't the protesters just go to the Florida legislature and have feeding tubes taken off the default list of "life support equipment"?
I can speculate - because if it's "ordinary care" and not "life support" you have just taken a step that may mean EVERYONE get a feeding tube in ANY situation where they can't take nutrition any other way. I don't know about you, but if one my siblings wanted to put a feeding tube in my mother when she was dying of cancer, I would have been very upset. I would have fought it as she never wanted that. Medically, a feeding tube is not "ordinary" care. It is not the equivalent of a baby bottle or a spoon.
You and me both. This was one time that the government WAS RIGHT in intervening!!!
"Mitt just lost me.
Me too."
So you are both one platform voters? Fess up, you lost Mitt long ago.
The government should ALWAYS be involved in saving lives!
I personally watched Terri's Mom and Dad and brother and sister come out the door of the hospice hundreds of times over many weeks.
I will be forever haunted by the memory of the looks on their faces as they passed the beautiful fountain of water by the entrance, knowing that our own government would not allow her one drop of it - past the flag pole with Old Glory flying over it all - a constant poignant reminder that this was all happening in America.
That's life support just like a baby's bottle or me feeding my blind and addled father in law.
No, medically it isn't the same. A baby can swallow. Your blind and addled father-in-law could swallow. Terri Schiavo had lost half her brain tissue, along with the basic reflexes that allow people to swallow properly. She had swallowing tests and failed them.
"I refuse to vote for someone who identifies too closely with the loudest cow in the herd."
Moooooooove on, nothing to see here!
God bless Terri and her loving parents and siblings. And God bless those who fought to save her life.
> I can speculate - because if it's "ordinary care" and
> not "life support" you have just taken a step that may
> mean EVERYONE get a feeding tube in ANY situation where
> they can't take nutrition any other way.
True, but that seems to be the import of what many of the partisans *are* saying when they rail against the fact that Ms Schiavo was dehydrated to death. I've seen many claims that "no one" should die by that "horrible" means.
Given that, I was curious why they didn't pursue an apparently easier course.
I happen to disagree with them, and I certainly wouldn't want to be incapacitated and indefinitely fed through a tube with no hope of recovery.
Sorry Mitt....the vaulted "sacred" courts essentially gave congress the middle finger over the Schiavo affair. All congress asked was for the courts to reexamine the case.
Instead the black robed tyrants did it their way and poor Terri got starved to death. F... the courts and the US judicial system. Sick of bowing at the altar of these a.. whole judges.
I don't think you're correct. She was able to swallow her own saliva. My understanding is that the alleged husband would not allow her the therapy she needed to regain her ability to eat and drink on her own.
Several million disabled Americans disagree with you.
>> I happen to disagree with them, and I certainly wouldn't
>> want to be incapacitated and indefinitely fed through a
>> tube with no hope of recovery.
>
> Several million disabled Americans disagree with you.
They have no way of knowing what *I* desire for *my* own medical treatment, and thus have no basis for disagreeing with the statement you quoted.
They'll just spin it all. Expect fifty pages from them on this by Tuesday.
No, but I just found your post of 3/18/05 to the FR link.
Unfortunately my wmp player does not work.
You've lost me with that! Can you cite a case where that ever occurred?
We're discussing a situation which DID take place, but do you recall that it is the JUDICIAL branch which carried out their decree that "you should end the life of your child"?
While the parents, along with the siblings, fought against this court-ordered (justice branch) euthanasia, the JUSTICE branch of our government decided that their daughter, and sister, had to die.
In case you're tempted to bring up a whole different subject...capital punishment...that is not what we are discussing here.
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