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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 13:00
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Tim Bruening wrote:

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> Thomas Curmudgeon wrote:
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>>Tim Bruening wrote:
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>>>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.
> 
She's dead. She was dead 10 years ago. Whatever your point is, why not 
let it go.
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