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Ben Carson says the Terri Schiavo case was ‘much ado about nothing’
Washington Post ^ | 11/13/15 | Ed O'Keefe

Posted on 11/13/2015 5:19:57 PM PST by markomalley

Leading Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson believes that federal and state official overreacted in the case of Terri Schiavo, a Florida woman who died in 2005 as her husband and family battled over whether to keep her alive despite her vegetative state.

The case roiled the state of Florida and sparked an emotional national debate about the ethics, politics and spiritual significance of her life and death.

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After speaking at a Republican Party conference here on Friday, a reporter asked Carson what he thought of the infamous case -- one that Bush speaks about occasionally as he mounts his own presidential campaign.

"We face those kinds of issues all the time and while I don't believe in euthanasia, you have to recognize that people that are in that condition do have a series of medical problems that occur that will take them out," he said. "Your job [as a doctor] is to keep them comfortable throughout that process and not to treat everything that comes up."

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To: markomalley

Palliative care...let the person just naturally die. They don’t treat pneumonia, flu, anything that prolongs life. I guess some are worthy to live and some are not in his view.


121 posted on 11/13/2015 6:08:32 PM PST by antceecee (Bless us Lord, forgive us our sins and bring us to everlasting life.)
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To: dsc

Terri Shiavo had a loving family that wanted to take care of her. Her husband had a babe he was hot to marry so Terri had to go. There was about $600,000 coming to him.


122 posted on 11/13/2015 6:08:43 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: vette6387

He botched it, then. He should sue himself for malpractice. :P


123 posted on 11/13/2015 6:09:10 PM PST by Politicalkiddo ("We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them." Abigail Adams)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Perhaps it is the spillover of anger from the Paris massacre, but if Dr. Carson had any chance of my support, it’s gone now. I am tired of fools parading as wise, while human life continues to be in the balance.


124 posted on 11/13/2015 6:09:18 PM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: djstex

“Still to this day JEB was such a weak hand-wringing wimp allowed the rights of her so-called husband end her life in a inhumane way. By the way ,the sorry husband had moved on and had another woman and kids. Sickening to say the least.”

Someone ought to ask Yebble if she had been Hispanic, if he would have been able to perform “an act of love” and spare her life?


125 posted on 11/13/2015 6:09:42 PM PST by vette6387
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To: vette6387

I ai’t voting for any of them.


126 posted on 11/13/2015 6:09:48 PM PST by EternalVigilance
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Yup! That sums it up pretty much.


127 posted on 11/13/2015 6:10:36 PM PST by antceecee (Bless us Lord, forgive us our sins and bring us to everlasting life.)
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To: markomalley

Why is this surprising? The man supports DEATH PANELS!!


128 posted on 11/13/2015 6:11:16 PM PST by conservativejoy (Pray Hard, Work Hard, Trust God,,,, We can elect Ted Cruz!)
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To: markomalley

He wouldn’t have said that had the Schindlers been wealthy and were contributing to his campaign.


129 posted on 11/13/2015 6:12:05 PM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: antceecee

Carson needs to GTFO of the race. I’m sick of looking at him and listening to him.


130 posted on 11/13/2015 6:12:33 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Diogenesis

I so pray that you are right that Carson is finished. Never have I seen so many Christian people deceived.


131 posted on 11/13/2015 6:12:53 PM PST by conservativejoy (Pray Hard, Work Hard, Trust God,,,, We can elect Ted Cruz!)
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To: conservativejoy
Does he?

I do know that he wants to get rid of Medicare; even for people now on it.

132 posted on 11/13/2015 6:13:24 PM PST by nopardons
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To: erod
He's starting to drop....

Today's Reuters/Ipsos poll


133 posted on 11/13/2015 6:13:29 PM PST by smoothsailing
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To: The Iceman Cometh

“Yep, Imma get flamed for this one. “

Listen, crumb-bum, you make me laugh that hard again and I’m going to loose the hounds.


134 posted on 11/13/2015 6:13:29 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Agree!


135 posted on 11/13/2015 6:13:49 PM PST by antceecee (Bless us Lord, forgive us our sins and bring us to everlasting life.)
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To: The Iceman Cometh

;)


136 posted on 11/13/2015 6:15:24 PM PST by antceecee (Bless us Lord, forgive us our sins and bring us to everlasting life.)
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To: Wilderness Conservative

My step mother in Alzheimer’s care is pretty much the same, but I will not let anyone take away her right to life. On her own merits she loves her life and others around her treasure her.


137 posted on 11/13/2015 6:17:53 PM PST by antceecee (Bless us Lord, forgive us our sins and bring us to everlasting life.)
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To: conservativejoy
Never have I seen so many Christian people deceived

You forgot GA Jimmuh and 1976 and the Christian smile!

138 posted on 11/13/2015 6:19:00 PM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: smoothsailing

4.2 for Jebbie is still too close for comfort.


139 posted on 11/13/2015 6:19:52 PM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: nopardons

Yes. I had read that and did my own search on it a couple of days ago. It was shocking. If I can find it again, I’ll post.


140 posted on 11/13/2015 6:20:11 PM PST by conservativejoy (Pray Hard, Work Hard, Trust God,,,, We can elect Ted Cruz!)
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