Thompson, Schiavo…
Former Tennessee senator and presidential hopeful Fred Thompson ventured into hazardous terrain Thursday in Florida, where he suggested Congress had overstepped its bounds by involving itself in the Terri Schiavo case.Coverage of his remarks, made to a cable television station, prompted his campaign to request a correction from at least one media outlet as to how its reports had characterized his response. It also prompted some political observers to note that Thompson, a former actor who played District Attorney Arthur Branch on NBC’s “Law & Order,” prosecuted a similar, fictional, version of the Schiavo case in that television drama.
Thompson directly refrained from sharing his opinion on the issue, which pitted Schiavo’s husband, Michael, who wanted to remove the feeding tube of his brain-dead wife, against her parents, brother and many religious conservatives, who insisted despite the overwhelming medical evidence that she had some cognition.
Florida courts repeatedly sided with Michael Schiavo, but the case exploded to become a national obsession and Congress intervened in March 2005 to prevent her tube from being removed. Ultimately federal courts refused to intervene and Schiavo died on March 31, 2005.
FRED-O-RAMA: Thompson on Terri Schiavo: “No role for the federal government to play.” I agree.
This was a case on fundamental matters of ethics, end of life issues, and the definition of personhood and humanity...and Fred punts the question?
I don’t disagree often with Michelle Malkin, but she’s wrong to call for Fred Thompson’s campaign to take a stand on Terry Schiavo.
It’s not that it isn’t an important issue. It’s that it has nothing at all to do with being president.
SNOOP DITTO’S THAT!
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September 14th, 2007 at 8:55 am
Amen, and good for Thompson. Malkin is dead wrong.