ALAN DERSHOWITZ, AUTHOR, RIGHTS FROM WRONGS: Well, the legal situation is, whether you approve of it or not that, the court has ruled that this is the young womans choice, that she has made a decision to die and they are simply enforcing her will.
My own view, if I were writing the Florida law, would be very different. I would say that the statement of one person reported by one other person, not in writing...
SCARBOROUGH: Hearsay.
DERSHOWITZ: ... should not be enough to overcome the presumption of life, that you have plenty of time, all of eternity to be dead, and only a short time to live.
And I would agree with President Bush that you should always err on the side of life. I wish he took the same view in capital punishment cases when he had been governor of Florida (sic), but not everybody is consistent.
Yeah it looks like Scarborough interjected a word and Dershowitz either didn't hear it or forgot about it. He made a point to correct Scarborough the following night.