Crist, the state attorney general, also has antagonized the Right to Life community by staying out of last year's Terri Schiavo debate, saying the state had no place to interfere with court rulings that allowed the removal of a feeding tube from the severely brain-damaged woman, who later died.
Gallagher, Florida's chief financial officer, supported intervention efforts by the Legislature's Republican majority and Congress. He also was the lone gubernatorial candidate to take part in a Schiavo rally last year at the state Capitol.
Crist further distanced himself from social conservatives by breaking with President Bush over his veto last month of legislation allowing federal funding of advanced embryonic stem-cell research, a veto Gallagher applauded.
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Terri on the road to recovery before the second stage began.