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Monday, October 22, 2007

End of Life
by Lee

Having gone through a right-to-die issue with my father which (thankfully) did not include a bunch of fundamentalist Christians and their armies of lawyers trying to take the decision away from our family, I appreciate the candor that Fred Thompson takes on this issue.

In a moving, pointed and rare response to a question about the Terri Schiavo controversy, former Sen. Fred Thompson of Tennessee Monday afternoon described details of the death of his own daughter, Elizabeth “Betsy” Thompson Panici, and said that neither federal nor local governments should play any role in making a family’s end-of-life decisions.

“I had to make those decisions with the rest of my family,” Thompson said. “And I will assure you one thing: No matter which decision you make, you will never know whether or not you made exactly the right decision.”

GOP hopeful Thompson said that “making this into a political football is something that I don’t welcome, and this will probably be the last time I ever address it. It should be decided by the family. The federal government—and the state government too, except for the court system—should stay out of these matters, as far as I’m concerned.”

Hell fuck yes.  America, the way it should be.  We get drips and drabs of it from each of the candidates, If only we could roll these drips and drabs into a candidate of our own, we’d end up with someone damn near unbeatable.

Update: I’d be curious to know what his vote was on the Schiavo issue.  I believe he was still a senator then.  If anyone has the time to dig that factoid up that would be appreciated.

Posted by Lee on 10/22/07 at 10:53 PM in Science and Technology  • (0) Trackbacks • Permalink • Discuss this in the forums
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