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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- During the faith debate at Messiah College on Sunday night, pro-abortion Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama largely avoided a question about whether patients should be allowed to have a right to assisted suicide or euthanasia.
Clinton was asked if she "believe[s] it is compassionate, that it is appropriate to let someone who is really suffering choose to end their life."
"Again, this is one of those incredibly challenging issues," she responded.
"You know, the Terri Schiavo case in Florida posed that for many people," Clinton added, referring to the case of a disabled woman whose former husband won the legal right to subject her a painful 13-day starvation and dehydration euthanasia death.
She called the Schiavo case one where "there were people of good faith and people of strong feelings on both sides about what should happen to that woman's life."
Ultimately, Clinton said she was unsure whether government should allow assisted suicide or euthanasia.
"I don't know that any of us is in a position to make that choice for families or for individuals, but I don't want us also to condone government action that would legitimize or encourage end-of-life decisions," she said.
Clinton appeared to ask more questions than give answers to the bioethics concerns.
"Somehow there has to be a framework for us to determine how can people who are either able to make these decisions on their own do so? Or if they are not, how best do we create a decision process for their families to try to decide?" she added........
Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama Largely Avoid Assisted Suicide Question
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