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Romney says government was wrong in Schiavo case
St. Petersburg Times ^ | March 11, 2007 | Adam C. Smith

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: electionpresident; elections; euthanasia; judicialtyranny; moralabsolutes; romney; romneyschiavo; schiavo; shiavo; terri; terrischiavo
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To: Lesforlife

You don't starve a dog to death and you certainly shouldn't do it to a fellow human being.

It's a sad day when dogs have more rights to life!


481 posted on 03/12/2007 8:19:36 AM PDT by pickyourpoison (" Laus Deo ")
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To: hunter112

I read you profile that says it all!


482 posted on 03/12/2007 8:24:40 AM PDT by restornu ("Try to Lead by Example, Not by Trampling on Another!")
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To: pillut48

Comparing Bundy to this is bizarre.


483 posted on 03/12/2007 10:13:51 AM PDT by RadioAstronomer (Senior and Founding Member of Darwin Central)
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To: George W. Bush; retMD

Indeed it took courage. I personally think the right thing was done.


484 posted on 03/12/2007 10:15:52 AM PDT by RadioAstronomer (Senior and Founding Member of Darwin Central)
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To: RadioAstronomer

No, killing an innocent woman because 'she deserves it for not being perfect' is bizarre. And outrageous. And immoral. And a million other adjectives I don't have room for here. :*(


485 posted on 03/12/2007 10:22:28 AM PDT by pillut48 (CJ in TX (Bible Thumper and Proud!))
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To: pickyourpoison

We kept bringing that up at the time. Even cattle in our nation
get better treatment.


486 posted on 03/12/2007 10:28:37 AM PDT by Lesforlife ("For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb . . ." Psalm 139:13!!!!!)
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To: RadioAstronomer; T'wit
It was not murder.

No it was not murder, it was Callous Indifference to Life

487 posted on 03/12/2007 10:35:17 AM PDT by restornu ("Try to Lead by Example, Not by Trampling on Another!")
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To: Lesforlife
Even cattle in our nation get better treatment.

No kidding. If someone locked a dog in a closet with no water or food until they died, they'd go to jail.

488 posted on 03/12/2007 10:35:17 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (The 4000 American kids who are being aborted today need an Abe Lincoln, not a Stephen Douglas...)
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To: restornu
No it was not murder, it was Callous Indifference to Life

A distinction without a difference, when the people being callously indifferent are those charged as the legal guardian and custodian of the weak and helpless.

If you locked your dog in a closet, being callously indifferent to its need for water and food, and it died, you most certainly killed it.

489 posted on 03/12/2007 10:39:43 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (The 4000 American kids who are being aborted today need an Abe Lincoln, not a Stephen Douglas...)
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To: shoebooty
"Her husband, no matter what we think of him, was LEGALLY her next of kin."

So, do you think that every person has the right to kill their legal next-of-kin? (I know you don't. But I'm looking to understand your position: what DO you think a next of kin has the right to do for or to their relatives?)

490 posted on 03/12/2007 10:43:25 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (The brain: the most complex object in the Universe, other than the Universe itself taken as a whole.)
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To: EternalVigilance
He likes to see people STARVED TO DEATH??? He will NOT be President...ever!

She was NOT close to dying but her evil and vile husband wanted her DEAD.....sickening.

491 posted on 03/12/2007 10:46:14 AM PDT by Suzy Quzy
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To: DCPatriot; RadioAstronomer
This is one of the more vile posts I have ever read on FR.

Yep...a new low. Hopefully not going to be a common occurrence.

"Yeah I hope one day your kid marries a psychotic male nurse with a death fetish"

DCPatriot You ignored the point of RadioAstronomer, that another human being would wish that on another family!

492 posted on 03/12/2007 10:46:59 AM PDT by restornu ("Try to Lead by Example, Not by Trampling on Another!")
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To: shoebooty

Hey dude newbie, did you follow the story? She wasn't close to dying at all, but she, like you, needed food and water to live. Would YOU like to be starved to death?


493 posted on 03/12/2007 10:47:22 AM PDT by Suzy Quzy
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To: KevinDavis

That small govt starved a woman to death.


494 posted on 03/12/2007 10:49:00 AM PDT by Suzy Quzy
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To: EternalVigilance

Murder sometimes is by passion, but Callous Indifference to Life is depravity!


495 posted on 03/12/2007 10:52:34 AM PDT by restornu ("Try to Lead by Example, Not by Trampling on Another!")
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To: Swordfished
"You 100%ers kill me."

There's a logical reason to be a 100%er on the inviolability of the life of every innocent person, and that is that a person who has been killed has lost 100% of their rights. You don't have a secure right to own a gun, use your own property for your own purposes, vote, sign a contract, smoke a cigarette, start a blog, or so anything else, if you don't have a right to simply go on living.

If a candidate agreed with you on all issues except he took the very moderate position of wanting to execute, say, a mere 10% of the people who post on Free Republic, I think you'd agree that that one issue would disqualify the candidate.

496 posted on 03/12/2007 10:56:05 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (The brain: the most complex object in the Universe, other than the Universe itself taken as a whole.)
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To: restornu; DCPatriot

Actually, I believe DCPatriot was agreeing with my point.

How are you doing?


497 posted on 03/12/2007 10:57:32 AM PDT by RadioAstronomer (Senior and Founding Member of Darwin Central)
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To: NonValueAdded
"That technology managed to place in the hands of a probate judge the power of life and death therefore also placed that judge's life and death decisions under the pardon review of the Governor."

It would have been worth a try, anyhow. Anyone who took an oath to uphold the Constitution of the State of Florida --- but most of all, of course, the Governor, who held supreme executive power, including the power to pardon ---should have tried.

498 posted on 03/12/2007 11:01:58 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (The brain: the most complex object in the Universe, other than the Universe itself taken as a whole.)
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To: restornu

Actually it was the wishes of Terri. I have no other data to go on except the word of her husband. Remember he brain was atrophied to the point of zero cognative capability including sight no matter what her parents claimed. This was not murder nor even callous disregard for life. I personally have a living will that shjould I end up in the same situation, I would be allowed to die.


499 posted on 03/12/2007 11:02:07 AM PDT by RadioAstronomer (Senior and Founding Member of Darwin Central)
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To: traviskicks
"Government should not be involved in a he said she said family dispute.

It wasn't a "he said/she said family dispute." It was a county probate judge ordering that a particular woman living in Pinellas County, not having been convicted of any crime, should be deprived of nutrition and hydration until dead.

500 posted on 03/12/2007 11:06:18 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (The brain: the most complex object in the Universe, other than the Universe itself taken as a whole.)
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