Gee, maybe they got the facts straight on this poll!
Once people find out the facts about this case, their mind quickly changes. When one finds out that MS waited 7 YEARS to say that his wife wanted to die and that he went to nursing school to take care of her when he apparently knew she did not want to live...etc...just too many unanswered questions....
Yep.
The politicians who did not intervene are going to find out that the public thinks they abetted in murder.
Which they did.
What we needed WHEN TERRI WAS ALIVE was for a huge public clamor calling it what it was....murder.
Or a political leader(read Jeb) with the stones to just do it and let the handwringers sort out the "constitutional crisis".
Ahh yes polls. This same one was posted here yesterday, except with the accompanying Fox story that stated: "By an overwhelming majority, Americans viewed removing the feeding tube as an act of compasion." Funny how when you change the accompanying story, suddenly the poll takes on new meaning. Still, many here yesterday noticed the trend that this Newsmax story now reports.
A co-worker has a wife that's a nurse. She says that most of the poor souls in hospices are put on feeding tubes because they tend to aspirate (suck food/liquid into the lungs) and need to be taken to a hospital when it happens. The families get upset and get the lawyers involved and....well, you know the rest of the story.
I surfed the news shows last night. I detected a pro-Terri trend. A little late, though.
All depends on how the question is worded.
We really need a book on this, and maybe a movie.
The news media have assiduously distorted the facts, as usual.
We also need a full and careful autopsy, given all the charges and the seeming evidence of spousal abuse. I have some hopes that the new coroner appointed by Jeb Bush in 2000 may be an honest man.
This is sooo predictable.
Just wait for the tv movie.
It's all about how you phrase the question.
Is there any way you all can think of that we can make our access to the truth more easily available to the majority of the public? How can we do the job of the MSM and have people understand that the truth is the truth whether or not it comes from the internet or from the TV?
"Joe Ford, a Harvard undergraduate with severe cerebral palsy: "Like many others with disabilities, I believe that the American public, to one degree or another, holds that disabled people are better off dead. To put it in a simpler way, many Americans are bigots. A close examination of the facts of the Schiavo case reveals not a case of difficult decisions but a basic test of this country's decency."
Who Will Remember Terri?
By JAMES TARANTO
April 1, 2005; Page A10
The poll question should be "if you were in Terri's situation, would you want to be starved to death". It's easy to say you would not want to live that way. But choosing to be starved to death is another matter.
Maybe people started picking up bits and pieces of facts instead of what most of the media has been saying.
Most people that voted on that original pole probably had no clue about what was really happening and her condition.
I'd be willing to bet they thought she was terminal and it was about pulling the plug in that kind of situation.
Right here in Tampa, the newspapers are so pro killing Terri I couldn't buy one while this is going on. (And not after, either)
The St. Petersberg Times has been running poor Michael and brave, brave judge Greer articles for weeks now. The editorials have been how dare anyone deny Terri her right to die.
It has also treated us to lovely articles like, "The other woman in Michael Schiavo's heart" and trashed the Schindler family viciously.
So I basically expect the people I meet not to know the facts.
Not shifting.
They just got the question right!
We'll see if this sticks. I said this in another post last week - I thought that once Terri died, people would start having remorse about their attitude towards advocating her death and there would be a backlash.