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I think people ought to be free at state and local levels to make decisions that even Fred Thompson disagrees with. That’s what freedom is all about.

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But, at the end of the day, if a state legislature and a governor decide that that’s what they want to do, yes, they should have, they, they should have the freedom to do what Fred Thompson thinks is a very bad idea.

Oh my gosh, he really is the next Bob Dole, he is even speaking about himself in the third person (\sarc)

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.

This is an issue I haven't followed real closely, because I tended to not like Congress intervening on this case, and I was flamed on this site for saying it.... But I thought that people here were saying that Freds daughters situation was different because of her being on a breathing machine, and not "starving her to death", yet here Fred clearly says that he agrees that removing a FEEDING TUBE is a family decision and not "murder".

Where are the Terry Shiavo people on this one? Is this OK?

I really think the issue is way too painful for Fred to deal with. We are assured that the American people were outraged by what was happening to Terri Schiavo. This is why congress passed what they did. All the candidates need to work on this. The whole world watched Terry starve to death.

I thought that people here were saying that Freds daughters situation was different because of her being on a breathing machine, and not "starving her to death", yet here Fred clearly says that he agrees that removing a FEEDING TUBE is a family decision and not "murder". Where are the Terry Shiavo people on this one? Is this OK?

As a "Terri Schiavo person," I would say that removing the feeding tube is murder, just as starving/dehydrating to death anyone else would be murder. For Thompson to equate a feeding tube with life support is another red flag that he is either ignorant or knowingly on the wrong side.

On the question of federal involvement in the case, protecting life is one special situation in which the federal government must intervene if the local process fails. When a governor allows his police power to carry out a judicially-mandated murder, the only legal recourse is the feds.