It feels rather morbid to revisit this emotional case, but this article is an important example of why pro-lifers should still have questions about Mitt Romney's newfound pro-life position:

TAMPA -- He's campaigning hard for support from Republican social conservatives, but presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Saturday he disagreed with the government's intervention in the Terri Schiavo case.

"I think it's probably best to leave these kinds of matters in the hands of the courts," Romney said in a television interview airing today.

Polls showed most voters, including most Republicans, opposed Congress and the Florida Legislature intervening in 2005 to bypass court rulings and force the profoundly brain-damaged Pinellas woman's feeding tube to be reinserted.

Romney's position puts him at odds with a portion of the Republican base he is courting aggressively and with former Gov. Jeb Bush, many of whose key advisers and Florida donors are backing the former Massachusetts governor.

"I generally think that it's not a good idea for courts to legislate. Nor is it great idea for legislatures to adjudicate in a specific circumstance," Romney said in the taped interview that airs at 11 a.m. on Bay News 9 in the Tampa Bay area.

The Constitution grants Congress the power to define the jurisdiction of the Federal courts. So what was awful about Congress simply allowing the Federal courts to review a situation where a cruel husband was allowing his defenseless and disabled wife to dehydrate to death? It is entirely possible that Michael Schiavo was no longer Terri's legal guardian, as he had a girlfriend by whom he has had two children- And it was this question which drove the congressional intervention.

As Hugh Hewitt, a major supporter of Mitt Romney, explained in 2005 in the Weekly Standard, Congress was well within its rights to allow more appeals for the Schiavo family. And it was the District Court which defied the Congress, made its own law, and refused to order hydration and nutrition for Terri during the appeals process.

Romney should spend some more quality time with his "pro-life talking points" flash cards. I would even be willing to help him study them, for a low, one-time fee of $5000.