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Re: Zogby Poll: 80% Wanted Schiavo's Feeding Tube Reinserted

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From: Thomas Curmudgeon
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 01:27
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Tim Bruening wrote:

> I just learned of a shocking poll about the Terri Schiavo case! 
> According to a Zogby poll done March 30- April 2, 80% of likely voters
> "say that a disabled person who is not terminally ill or in a coma, and
> not being kept alive by life support should not, in the absence of a
> written directive to the contrary, be denied food and water"!!!!!.  Here
> is the link to that stunning poll:
> http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=982
> 
> Why for God's sake didn't Zogby conduct that poll on March 18???????  If
> Jeb Bush had known that 80% of the voters supported reinserting the
> feeding tube, I bet that he would have implemented the activists'
> suggestions that he invoke Article 1 of the Florida Constitution
> (authorizing the Governor to intervene to protect Floridians' right to
> life) to save Terri!

We're a coutry of laws. We're not ruled by the whim or emotion of the 
masses.
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