Posted on 04/01/2005 7:42:27 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
Public opinion may be shifting on the decision to disconnect Terri Schiavo's feeding tube and starve her to death, according to a new Fox Opinion Dynamics survey - with a significant percentage of Americans now saying it was "murder."
When asked about the "decision to remove" Schiavo's feeding tube, 38 percent of Americans told Opinion Dynamics that they disagreed with the decision, with 42 percent backing the move.
A full 20 percent said they were unsure.
A widely circulated ABC News poll last week asked if it was right to pull Schiavo's feeding tube, noting that she's been "on life support for 15 years" with a condition that is "irreversible."
Phrasing the question like that, 63 percent backed the decision to remove her tube, with 28 opposed.
In perhaps the most startling finding on the survey, fifty percent of African Americans told Opinion Dynamics that removing Schiavo's feeding tube was "an act of murder."
Thirty-nine percent of Republicans agreed. Even among Americans under 30, more than a third of the population [35 percent] believe that Schiavo was murdered.
Opinion Dynamics surveyed 900 registered voters on March 29-30, the day before Schiavo died.
Perfect case at work yesterday. A co-worker was in total agreement that the tube should have been pulled. Then I mentioned that she wasn't brain dead and able to communicate with her family, albeit like a baby, but still communicate. He quickly changed his mind.
As a side note; CBS radio news always started their report of her when she was alive with, "Brain dead Terri Schiavo...". It was infuriating. Our local conservative talk radio station is switching to FOX News this summer because of complaints from the Rather fiasco. Good riddance CBS news.
...I think he went to nursing school so he could find out how to make sure she never recovered enough to tell people what he did to her.
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I agree. I feel he went to learn how to make sure she would never recover. Why? Because of Michael's own controlling actions, his treatment of the Schlinder's and his treatment of Terri at the end - denying her even then of her family around her to comfort her.
I will never forgive him for that.
Do you honestly believe that MS had Terri's best interest at heart? How can you knowing that he had a shack-up honey and two kids. His guardianship should have been immediately removed.
If you are so sure Terri wanted to starve to death, would you stake your child's life on it? If not, it is best to err on the side of life.
Proverbs 31: 10-11
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.
Great news about them dumping CBS. Our local conservative talk radio channel did the same thing and went to FOX. I love it!
Also, now MS is going to have her cremated and put in his family's burial plot. What an evil man. I mean, he was married to her for 4 FREAKIN' YEARS! Her family knew her her whole life.
taking a look at the timeline would change a lot of people's minds...
The chief executive of the US lying under oath and the state sanctioned execution of Terri Shaivo.
Both cases have a significant majority on the morally bankrupt side of the issue
If the USA Department of Agriculture catches you starving cats and dogs or farm animals, you will be fined and perhaps jailed and your animals will be taken from you.
They call that cruelty to animals. But when Terri Schiavo was being starved and dehydrated, no one came to get her, and she is dead. Her tongue was cracked and bleeding, and her eyes bled, but there were policemen at the door arresting anyone who came there with a drink of water.
Something is bad wrong here in the USA.
I suspect that George Felos and Michael Schiavo were fleecing the money from the Government to get them to pay for hospice stay for Terri. I saw on television where George Felos said that Michael Schiavo had not gotten a hospice bill for three years. Maybe this was just about to catch up with them and they did need her dead. She should not have been in that hospice anyway, for she was not a dying patient, and she lived there for years!
Sure the ghoul Michael Schiavo stayed at the hospice to see that no one gave Terri a drink. That could never be, for he wanted her to die as fast as she could. Some one needs to pay for this, for this was done by our courts, and all of us paid for this murder, and Terri was killed in our name. We have every right to scream to the high heavens!
I don't ~know~ him at all. What I do know is that people seek companionship in a spouse, and his spouse's ability to provide that companionship was taken away 15 years before she died. On a realistic level, it does not surprise me that he sought and found companionship even while still retaining responsibility for his wife. I know it isn't heroic, but I have definately seen it happen in good people. I know two old folks who met and found companionship in each other while crossing paths with each other every day at an alzheimer's home. Their spouses were alive but lost to them. And... they each understood what that was like.
However, even with that in mind, I am not really defending Michael. We don't have to ~like~ Michael to make rational law.
BINGO. And facts were so very hard to come by all along, allowing the merchants of death free reign until Terri's fight and other internet sites (FR) stepped in.
That's why the OM is so much to blame (and I saw this in the Schindlers Jax press conference), for not asking the harder followup questions of both michael and the Schindlers: "What? You say Terri responds to her father's scratchy face? and these documents say she was responding in 1990 and 1991?" ; "Is it true, michael, that she used to be allowed out in her wheelchair, but since the malpractice suits, she has not -- you say her wheelchair is broken? but you have not repaired it; you have been offered replacement wheelchairs, but you have not accepted them?" and "What do you mean, she has not had a swallow test in the past decade, isn't it required by law?" (not to mention common decency before you KILL her, duh!)
oh, and my current favorite dream question of felos: "Is it true that Terri's room was kept dark all the time, she wasn't allowed to have flowers or cards or any pictures in her room? . . . Could she have flowers, music and stuffed animals all along, or are those only things she had at the very end, so you all would look good?"
Please, Lord, from these words to some reporter's lips . . .
ydh, I am so very angry. . . . sorry sorry sick s . . .
I like to think if people knew the basic details of the case, more would believe it is murder.
The MSM is culpable.
I'll tell you something else I think about some of the polling.
I think there are a ton of Americans out there who have not developed an informed opinion one way or the other on all these life vs. death social issues. And they've just been letting the politicians and judiciary decide these things, and they have also not been voting based on this issue. In other words, they aren't cluttering their minds or dirtying their hands.
I know, because I was once one of them.
I don't have a cite for that. I just read it on one of these huge threads, but if it's true I've gotta wonder what his real job is there. Not the written job description, but what he's expected to do. Remember the Sheriff is tied in tight with all those death cult members who are on the board at the hospice and tight with the judge.
He's also a huge control freak and any "patients" he might have in the jail would be pretty helpless in his hands. Just like he likes them, in my opinion.
Gleaning from MSM but started on FR naturally. :)
The Democrat strategy didn't work because the media was so excited about the idea of attacking the religious right that they over played their hand. Last week most of the public were not aware of the facts in the case, this week, I don't think that anyone has missed.
so much has been hidden, has been allowed to remain hidden for so many years! may all the evil entanglements finally come to light, to scrutiny, to total destruction.
SO9
Too many coincidences with the magic Woodside.
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