CHANGE OF ATTITUDE ON SCHIAVO -- More than two years after Republicans in Washington led the charge to keep Terri Schiavo alive, the leading GOP presidential candidates say they have doubts as to the way their party handled the situation, The Boston Globe reported Oct. 25. Schiavo is the Florida disabled woman who died after her feeding tube was pulled.
Mitt Romney has called the decision of Congress to get involved a mistake. Fred Thompson said he is "uncomfortable" with Congress' actions, while Rudy Giuliani has called it a family matter. Mike Huckabee months ago said, "I wasn't sure how the federal government had a role in all that," while John McCain -- who supported Congress' actions at the time -- now says legislators "acted too hastily."
Bobby Schindler, Schiavo's brother, says he is writing the candidates to express his concern.
"I want to personally talk with them about Terri's case," he told The Globe. "They need to be fully informed. There obviously exists a lot of confusion about my sister's situation."
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MELBOURNE, Fla., Oct. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Congressman Dave Weldon (R-FL), a physician, voted one more time against the Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), thus helping to prevent the expansion of this program to cover some of the 9 million uninsured children in our country. Dr. Stephen Blythe, a family physician in the congressman's district, takes such exception to Weldon's actions in Congress that he will be running against him for the 15th District seat next year. This may be the first time two physicians have faced each other in a congressional race in fifty years.
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"I am as different from Dave Weldon as night and day," says Blythe. "I am an environmentalist, I am against this administration's abuses of our constitutional rights, and against the war in Iraq. I am also against government interference in a family's private end-of-life decision-making." It was Dave Weldon who brought the full weight of the U.S. Government to bear in the Terri Schiavo controversy in Florida in 2005.
Fellow Physician to Challenge Dr. Dave Weldon for His Congressional Seat
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Duncan Hunter, Tom Tancredo, Alan Keyes and sometimes Huckabee are for protecting life and well,
the others are in the GHOULISH OLD PARTY.
Boo!!!!