Pro-lifers criticized Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson’s comment that the Congressional intervention during the Terri Schiavo case was “much ado about nothing.”

The Washington Post reported Friday that a reporter asked the retired neuro-surgeon his thoughts about the infamous legal dispute between Schiavo’s husband and her family over whether to continue her feeding tube.

“We face those kinds of issues all the time and while I don’t believe in euthanasia, you have to recognize that people that are in that condition do have a series of medical problems that occur that will take them out,” declared Carson.

“Your job [as a doctor] is to keep them comfortable throughout that process and not to treat everything that comes up.”

Carson, who was speaking to the Republican Party Conference Friday in Orlando, Florida, offered his thoughts on the U.S. Congressional intervention, sounding more like a physician than politician:

“I don’t think it needed to get to that level. I think it was much ado about nothing,” said Carson.

In a Tuesday interview with the Christian Post, Schiavo’s brother, Bobby Schindler, said “Perhaps there is a disconnect when it comes to pro-life issues for Dr. Carson.”

Schindler said Carson’s remarks “were surprising and insensitive to our family’s fight to keep Terri from being dehydrated and starved to death.”

Schindler said the comments “play into the hands of the death culture mentality.”

Read the article “Ben Carson’s Terri Schiavo Comments Troubling, Pro-Lifers Say” on christianpost.com.