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

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From: Tim Bruening
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 06:15
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Thomas Curmudgeon wrote:

> 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.

But Article 1 of the Florida Constitution could have served as the legal
justification for saving Terri.
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