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"I don't think that legislatures and governors ought to be inserting themselves in these questions," Gephardt told reporters at the convention. "I think the court has a made a ruling in this case and it's a matter that courts ought to decide."

[Theodore R.]

So, then, Gephardt favored death for Terri. Or otherwise, the cagy St. Louis liberal would have said that the legislature and governor had a proper role to protect the innocent.