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Article: Barack Obama vs. Terri Schiavo.
- Article from:
- National Right to Life News
- Article date:
- April 1, 2008
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In none of the endless presidential candidates' debates has there been a meaningful discussion of the rights of disabled Americans. However, in the February 26 debate in Cleveland, Barack Obama casually and ignorantly revealed his misunderstanding of the basic issue in the highly visible and still-resonating official death sentence of a disabled woman, Terri Schiavo. I have repeatedly called her death the result of "the longest public execution in American history."
When moderator Tim Russert asked Hillary Clinton and Obama if "there are any words or votes that you'd like to take back ... in your careers in public service," Obama answered that in his first year ...