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AOL poll for today's front page (AOL members only, sorry):

Should the comatose woman be kept alive or allowed to die?
Allow her to die 58%
Kept alive 32%
I can't decide! 10%

Should Florida Gov. Bush have ordered her to be kept alive?
No 59%
Yes 32%
I'm not sure 9%

Tried to enable a link, but it just leads to the AOL sign-up page. Any-hoo, if anybody has AOL and wants to FREEP the poll, have at it.

1,099 posted on 10/22/2003 5:44:37 AM PDT by shezza (They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength...they shall mount up with wings as eagles!)

I'm a bit confused. News everywhere is reporting that they have started fluids last night. (which makes sense, being an RN I know they wouldn't start feeding food yet, which would shock her system.) Why are they reporting this if it is not so?

1,101 posted on 10/22/2003 6:03:02 AM PDT by NebraskaTrailrider (("Anyone who thinks a horse is dumb, is dumb." Roy Rogers))

Perhaps if they worded the poll more truthfully, they would get a different result, but then I expect they are getting the result they prurposely worded it to get.

It should read: Should a mentally disabled woman be forced to die of starvation and dehydration based on the uncorroborated testimony of an adulterous husband who stands to gain monetarily from her demise, when he didn't even "recollect" his wife's wish to die until 8 years after the trauma which left her disabled in the first place and for which there is a possibility that he is responsible?

1,356 posted on 10/22/2003 12:27:11 PM PDT by sweetliberty ("Having the right to do a thing is not at all the same thing as being right in doing it.")