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Posted on 10/22/2007 4:12:11 PM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
T’wit just received a posthumus (sp) award. Developing... Yes, I miss his medical and legal expertise. He was a walking encyclopedia.
FYI:
Here are the positions of Rudy, Mitt, John, Mike, Duncan and Sam:
Huckabee, on governmental intervention in the Terri Schiavo case:
“I had no problem with the state getting involved because it’s one of their citizens. but I wasn’t sure how the federal government had a role in all that.”’
http://pushingrope.blogspot.com/2007/05/mike-huckabee-on-terri-schiavo.html
And from the first debate:
MR. MATTHEWS: Okay.
Let me ask you a question which has grabbed a lot of Americans personally, the Terri Schaivo case. Again, it was a question of whether the United States — the U.S. Congress should have intervened and passed a law to advise the appellate court whether to act or not in this case, the district court it was. Terri Schaivo, should Congress have acted or let the family make the decision, the husband?
MR. ROMNEY: I think we should generally let the family make a decision of this nature. In the case —
MR. MATTHEWS: The husband should have decided?
MR. ROMNEY: Generally we should make that decision.
In the case here, the courts decided that — what they thought was the right thing to do, and then I think Jeb Bush and the Florida legislature did the right thing by saying we’ve got a concern. They looked over the shoulder of the court. But I think the decision of Congress to get involved was a mistake.
MR. MATTHEWS: Okay.
MR. ROMNEY: I think that Congress’s job is to make sure that laws are respecting the sanctity of life. But to actually adjudicate a case like this, better done at the state level by the governor, the legislature and the court.
MR. MATTHEWS: Senator Brownback, should Congress have gotten involved in that personal case?
SEN. BROWNBACK: Yes, it should have, and it gave her the right and the family the right to take that appeal to the court. That’s what the Congress did.
And her life is sacred. Even if it’s in that difficult moment that she’s in at that point in time, that life is sacred. And we should stand for life in all its circumstances.
MR. MATTHEWS: Senator McCain, was Congress right in intervening in that case?
SEN. MCCAIN: It was a very, very difficult issue. All of us were deeply moved by the pictures and the depiction of this terrible, tragic case. In retrospect, we should have taken some more time, looked at it more carefully, and probably reacted to hastily.
MR. MATTHEWS: Mayor Giuliani, was that a good thing for Congress to do, to get involved that weekend?
MR. GIULIANI: The family was in dispute. That’s what we have courts for. And the better place to decide that in a much more — I think in a much fairer and even in a deeper way is in front of a court.
snip
MR. MATTHEWS: Okay. Congressman, Bill Clinton back home.
REP. HUNTER: You know, Bill Clinton cut the U.S. Army by almost 50 percent. In this war against terror, he’s the wrong guy to have in there.
==>And incidentally, on the Schiavo case, you know Ronald Reagan said on the question of life, when there’s a question, error on the side of life. I think Congress did the right thing.”
http://www.iht.com/bin/print.php?id=5562636
Duncan Hunter could have just ignored the question about Terri, because he wasn’t asked about it, but he proudly showed the country that he supported Congress decision to help Terri, even though he had to add it while answering an entirely different question.
He didn't wait for the money to run out before deciding she should die. In a 1993 deposition shortly after winning the money, he admitted to having already melted Terri's wedding rings to make some jewelry for himself. That's not an action any husband I know of would take unless he knew she wouldn't be needing them.
“What I did not like about the Shiavo case is how they killed her by starving her. We do that to even our pets and we end up in jail for cruelty.”
For sure. This country seems to be controlled by evil at times.
Can you offer any legitimate and logical reason for the order forbidding any effort at oral feeding/hydration? What possible harm could it have done? The worst that could happen would be that Terri would die anyway.
“T’wit just received a posthumus (sp) award. Developing... Yes, I miss his medical and legal expertise. He was a walking encyclopedia.”
Please keep me posted!
I would have to agree...I wish the law had been written differently and that parents could have taken over for the care of their daughter. The fact that nothing has changed since then leads me to believe that all the posturing by the pols was just that and nothing more.
Fred’s got it right, it’s the law that is wrong.
Me too, Grin
It’s not up to you; it should be God’s decision.
He was already living with his next wife, had one or tow kids with her and Terri was a problem. She had to go. He used up the money on getting her murdered legally. There was no reason to murder her. He could have divorced her. Her parents were more than willing to care for Terri. Only a sick f could believe that murdering a human being by starving her to death is okay.
I agree with what you say here. I just for the life of me cannot understand why he wanted her dead when the parents would have taken care of her. He would not have been responsible for anything. He easily could have gone on with his life as he already was doing. There must be so much more to the story that we don’t know because it does not make sense especially on the part of the husband. The only possible thought could be that he did not want her awake ever because perhaps she could incriminate him someway. I see no other reason.
Every elected officical in America, including the Governor of Florida, and the President of the United States, takes an oath to protect and defend the Constitution.
Both the Constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state of Florida contain provisions protecting the life of the innocent.
These provisions are quite explicit.
Thompson is a disaster.
You know what, floriduuuuuh (what an appropriate name), I wasn’t talking specifically about Terri but was making a reference to my own daughter (and to whatever Thompson said about his). I had a decision to make about my precious daughter and it’s none of your damn business or the business of any of the other Terri crusaders. I wouldn’t give a flying fig what you think about it.
You can spend the rest of your life mourning for Terri, which was certainly a very sad situation, but Mr. Thompson and I have more immediate sorrows to deal with.
Michael Schiavo gave up any legitimate claim to marital decision making when he shacked up with another woman and had two children with her.
While I can sympathize with the process it sounds like you lived through, sympathy doesn't prevent me from pointing out that your position is nonsense.
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