Posted on 03/11/2007 7:40:49 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
TAMPA -- He's campaigning hard for support from Republican social conservatives, but presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Saturday he disagreed with the government's intervention in the Terri Schiavo case.
"I think it's probably best to leave these kinds of matters in the hands of the courts," Romney said in a television interview airing today.
(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...
That does it for me. Not a chance in hell.
> if there was NO government involvement at all in the
> case, the woman would still be alive
Not likely. Michael Schiavo would have simply removed the tubes back when he decided that was what he wanted to do, rather than go to the courts.
Which brings up the interesting fact that he could have just done that anyway. He wasn't under any obligation to take it to the courts to begin with.
Well it is the right one...
If you want to be stupid, it's your right.
Killing an innocent person is wrong in God's eyes. Period.
I'm done with you.
Why didn't any of the protesters ever work to get Florida law changed so a feeding tube wasn't considered "life support" by default?
He was the only one of the "top three" I MIGHT have been able to vote for, but that's it for me, too.
So in order to have a government that doesn't force my daughter to take birth control, I have to accept a government that will use force to keep me from giving her a drink when she's literally dying of thirst.
No deal.
Check your meds.
No. Read my posts. I was responding to a silly proposition - that Congress would legislate that I should kill my children. EV burned that strawman upthread.
Bullshit. The courts system doesn't end at the state level.
And yes congress can pass any law that want to...(excerpted non-sequitur)... But that does not maker it RIGHT or SMART!
That's your opinion. A brand new congress is elected every two years because they are the closest to the people and presumably will be passing laws that are in accord with the wishes of the people.
You can have your elitist opinion about what is good law, that doesn't make it RIGHT or SMART.
Best he stop wasting his money engaging in a hopeless primary battle.
Away with you mortal.
My prayer:
Dear heavenly Father. If I should come to an end of life issue, and I'm unable to speak for myself, please let my spouse speak for me. The two of us became one flesh.
And dear God, if some some reason that doesn't work, I'm sure others, who love me, will step in to speak for me. But dear God, never, ever, ever let Jessie Jackson within a thousand yards of me. And those FReepers, who know me not, but seem to want to torture my corporal body for some agenda of their own...a pox on their house.
My life and death belong to me, my family, and my walk with You. Please don't let the state, courts, the church or Jessie Jackson take that right away from me.
In Jesus name I pray. Amen.
"Promoting the general welfare" does not mean that the govt must inject itself into every dispute. Note that I haven't stated what my own stance on the Schiavo case is.
Are you sure you want that sort of thing because if you do there's a line of folks here who'd like to talk to you under rules set out in the dueling code for gentlemen.
I'm low on Viagra.
RINO Romney.
You keep forgetting that if government were not involved in life and death issues families would need to take care of those problems themselves. The husband wouldn't have had a chance ~ he'd been long dead himself.
Have a problem with states rights????
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