Frist Defends Remarks on Schiavo Case

Frist Defends Remarks on Schiavo Case: "Some Democrats and doctors criticized Frist's March 17 Senate speech in which he said he was commenting on Schiavo's highly publicized case 'more as a physician than as a United States senator.'
In that speech, Frist said he had reviewed videotapes of Schiavo and noted that her brother 'said that she responds to her parents and to him. That is not somebody in persistent vegetative state. . . . There just seems to be insufficient information to conclude that Terri Schiavo is [in a] persistent vegetative state.'
'I question it based on a review of the video footage, which I spent an hour or so looking at last night in my office here in the Capitol,' Frist said in the speech."