Dean attacked for being a "physician-assisting suicide" doctor--

[Blue_Roses]

Dean 'Appalled' That Florida Lawmakers Saved Schiavo
By Jeff Johnson
CNSNews.com Congressional Bureau Chief
November 07, 2003

Capitol Hill (CNSNews.com) - Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean, who begins his campaign website greeting with the phrase, "As a medical doctor...," claims Florida Republicans should be "embarrassed" for intervening to save the life of Terri Schindler Schiavo last month. Earlier in the year, Dean publicly expressed his support for physician-assisted suicide.

Dean accused Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Republican state lawmakers of interfering in a "private matter" when they passed "Terri's Law," which allowed Bush to have the 39-year-old disabled woman's feeding tube reconnected after it was removed under court order at her husband's request. The former Vermont governor said he was "appalled" by Bush's intervention.

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Bush spokesman Jacob DiPietre said the governor found Dean's remarks "shameful."

"Gov. Bush," DiPietre said, "doesn't think that it's appropriate for a presidential candidate to be so flip about a serious issue that involves not only protecting the rights of the disabled, but also the fundamental right to life that is guaranteed in the Florida Constitution."

Pamela Hennessy - spokeswoman for Terri's parents, Robert and Mary Schindler - called Dean's comments "a monumental display of bad taste in every way imaginable.

"Obviously, he doesn't know every aspect of the case," Hennessy said, "and I think he's using it as platform just to take a swing, verbally, at Gov. Bush."

Hennessy said she is not surprised, however, at Dean's lack of compassion for Terri.

"Mr. Dean is on record as being in favor of physician-assisted suicide," Hennessy explained.

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"Mr. Dean is on record as being in favor of physician-assisted suicide," Hennessy explained.


It's obvious that the right wingers are keeping up with what is going on with our Democratic candidates--especially Dean. It's pretty clear by the on-slaught of attacks already beginning that they think he will win the nomination and they are gearing up now for the ambush.

Damn lying right-wingers

[meegbear]

1. Look at the source ...

CNSNews is not the bastion of insightful political news and opinion. The only good thing (if there is a good thing about this) is that they are preaching to the chior; the people who take them seriuosly are voting for * anyways.

[Blue_Roses]

2. I had never heard of

this news source.

[11cents]

3. CNS = Pat Robertson, no?

So not a particularly significant attack, but have the whores asked Dean the "A" question yet -- "Have you ever performed an abortion?" I would fully expect the liberal media to tacitly endorse the notion that abortion should be treated as a criminal act.

[Blue_Roses]

4. I can't stomach

Pat Robertson. I found this site through a link from the churchcoalition.com, which was a link from the sbc.net (southern baptist convention site).

I never pull up these right-winging sites (especially free republic) cause they make me so damn made and it's not good for my blood pressure these days, but there is an uprising going on against us that I'm afraid is gonna take off like an ambush. It really worries me because I don't want to get "sucker-punched" in 2004.

Like so many of us here, I just can't take another defeat like we had in 2000, especially by the repulsive and deceptiveness that the right insues.

[rustydog]

5. Attack Bush* for being a Military-assisted mass murderer

:bounce:

[mzmolly]

6. Im in favor of physician assisted suicide also.

:shrug:

[dfong63]

7. speaking as a Dean supporter,

i wish he had kept his mouth shut on this issue. i think it's not as clear cut as he is making it out to be, and is not going to help his cause.

[mzmolly]

8. As another Dean supporter, I agree, and feel that way often...

But that's part of the reason I support him as well. ;)

[damnraddem]

9. There's no connection between physician-assisted suicide and ...

decisions to pull the plug. In the former case, a person with a fatal illness makes a decision to make an early exit, and a physician assists with this. In the second case, the question is whether or not to continue heroic medical efforts in a case with a poor prognosis where the patient CANNOT express a preference. Had Teri expressed a preference in writing, there would not have been the same controversy, no matter what hte parents wanted. It is only because there was no such document that the a conflict arose over the wishes of parents versus husband, both claiming to represent what Teri 'would have wanted' or was said to have stated privately that she wanted. It's a shame that politicos and religious fanatics stick their noses into either type of case, but the two types of cases differ.

[mzmolly]

10. Absolutely right...

:thumbsup:

[Blue_Roses]

11. It's called

a "Living Will" my dad had one. He was "actively dying" and they didn't feed him or give him his meds. He was given morphine ONLY for comfort.

I agree, I don't think letting someone "actively die" is "assisted suicide" as they are proclaiming in this article. HOWEVER, by changing the wording, they can make him look like the doctor of death. That's what pisses me off.