This is earlier and comes from Jill Stanek with commentary by Fr. Pavone on You Tube. Click on the link below to see his commentary.
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I blogged earlier today that Fred Thompson lost any hope of my vote on Meet the Press yesterday by saying he opposed a Human Life Amendment to the Constitution, also a plank of the Republican platform. Thompson also spoke incoherently on states outlawing abortions, saying, Well, Bobby Schindler just emailed me that Thompson additionally answered wrong about his sister Terri Schindler Schiavo's case. I found the transcript and will post it on page 2. Bobby alerted me that Fr. Frank Pavone just posted a YouTube video about Terri and politicians like Thompson who say Congress should not have involved itself in her slow murder by starvation and dehydration. Here's FP's video. Watch it before reading the Thompson transcript.
Meet the Press partial transcript, November 4, 2008 MR. THOMPSON: Yeah. MR. RUSSERT: You've spoken about that, about the death of your own daughter. Your view is it is a family's decision to make whether to insert or remove a feeding tube. MR. THOMPSON: Yes. MR. RUSSERT: And that should... MR. THOMPSON: And then, and then, obviously, in consultation with their doctor. MR. RUSSERT: But there should be no laws involved? MR. THOMPSON: No. I've not said that. What - I mean, you, you got to put your lawyer hat back on, you know, with this most personal, should be nonlegal consideration. If there is a family dispute, then there're courts in, in every state in the nation that you can take a dispute like that to. I said the federal government should not be involved. MR. RUSSERT: But the government should not have gotten involved in Terri Schiavo? MR. THOMPSON: No. Now, you know, keep in mind, now, the, the government didn't come in and say "You got to do this; you got to do that." It gave federal court jurisdiction. Federal court didn't need jurisdiction, in my opinion. These are kinds of things where the, the, the - well, you mentioned it myself, my own personal situation. Let's just say you never know when you make the right decision, what - it, it wasn't totally comparable, but it was, it was the same, it was the same general end-of-life kind of consideration. And I, I - I've resisted and, and resent, frankly, the political football thatss been made out of all that, and, and it's unfortunate. The less government, the better.
Except the whole point of the government and laws are to provide guidelines and protect us.
"[Y]ou can't have a law that cuts off an age group or something like that, which potentially would take young, young girls in extreme situations and say, basically, we're going to put them in jail to do that." I have no idea what he was getting at.
Tim Russert interviews Republican presidential candidate Fred ThompsonMR. RUSSERT: In March of '05, the Congress, the president signed legislation allowing a federal judge to intervene, to perhaps re-insert a feeding tube in the famous Terri Schiavo case.
Thompson came down wrong on Terri, too
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