{"id":447,"date":"2008-03-28T17:01:11","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T17:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/?p=447"},"modified":"2025-09-30T02:22:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T02:22:49","slug":"pro-life-atheis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/?p=447","title":{"rendered":"Pro-life atheist Nat Hentoff blasts Obama on Terri Schiavo flip flop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liberal Columnist Nat Hentoff Blasts Barack Obama on Terri Schiavo Flip-Flop<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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The Senate unanimously approved a compromise bill but Obama said he should have stood up against the life-saving legislation.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt wasn’t something I was comfortable with, but it was not something that I stood on the floor and stopped,\u201d Obama said. \u201cAnd I think that was a mistake."<\/span><\/p>\n

Hentoff takes Senator Obama to task for the flip-flop in a column published in the magazine Forward.<\/span><\/p>\n

He called Obama’s decision to flip-flop an "irresponsible robot-like judgment " not based on the facts of the situation Congress considered.<\/span><\/p>\n

"He should be proud of the Senate vote he now recants–and learn a lot more about the disabled," Hentoff wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n

"The reason Congress asked the federal courts to review the Schiavo case was that the 41-year-old woman about to be dehydrated and starved to death was breathing normally on her own, was not terminal, and there was medical evidence that she was responsive, not in a persistent vegetative state," Hentoff explained.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hentoff points out that "staunchly liberal Democratic Tom Harkin of Iowa" was one of the leading advocates of judicial review because he is so well-informed on disability rights cases.<\/span><\/p>\n

He also notes that Obama apparently doesn’t know that "29 major national disability-rights organizations filed legal briefs and lobbied Congress to understand that this was not a right-to-die case, but about the right to continue living."<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Liberal Columnist Nat Hentoff Blasts Barack Obama on Terri Schiavo Flip-Flop The Senate unanimously approved a compromise bill but Obama said he should have stood up against the life-saving legislation. \u201cIt wasn’t something I was comfortable with, but it was not something that I stood on the floor and stopped,\u201d Obama said. \u201cAnd I think […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":991,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions\/991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}