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 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!
I read you profile that says it all!
Comparing Bundy to this is bizarre.
Indeed it took courage. I personally think the right thing was done.
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. :*(
We kept bringing that up at the time. Even cattle in our nation
get better treatment.
No it was not murder, it was Callous Indifference to Life
No kidding. If someone locked a dog in a closet with no water or food until they died, they'd go to jail.
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.
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?)
She was NOT close to dying but her evil and vile husband wanted her DEAD.....sickening.
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!
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?
That small govt starved a woman to death.
Murder sometimes is by passion, but Callous Indifference to Life is depravity!
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.
Actually, I believe DCPatriot was agreeing with my point.
How are you doing?
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.
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.
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.
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