Posted on 04/01/2005 8:05:46 PM PST by FairOpinion
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Polls leading up to the death of Terri Schiavo made it appear Americans had formed a consensus in favor of ending her life. However, a new Zogby poll with fairer questions shows the nation clearly supporting Terri and her parents and wanting to protect the lives of other disabled patients.
The Zogby poll found that, if a person becomes incapacitated and has not expressed their preference for medical treatment, as in Terri's case, 43 percent say "the law presume that the person wants to live, even if the person is receiving food and water through a tube" while just 30 percent disagree.
Another Zogby question his directly on Terri's circumstances.
"If a disabled person is not terminally ill, not in a coma, and not being kept alive on life support, and they have no written directive, should or should they not be denied food and water," the poll asked.
A whopping 79 percent said the patient should not have food and water taken away while just 9 percent said yes.
"From the very start of this debate, Americans have sat on one of two sides," Concerned Women for America's Lanier Swann said in response to the poll. One side "believes Terri's life has worth and purpose, and the side who saw Michael Schiavo's actions as merciful, and appropriate."
More than three-fourths of Americans agreed, Swann said, "because a person is disabled, that patient should never be denied food and water."
The poll also lent support to members of Congress to who passed legislation seeking to prevent Terri's starvation death and help her parents take their lawsuit to federal courts.
"When there is conflicting evidence on whether or not a patient would want to be on a feeding tube, should elected officials order that a feeding tube be removed or should they order that it remain in place," respondents were asked.
Some 18 percent said the feeding tube should be removed and 42 percent said it should remain in place.
Swann said her group would encourage Congress to adopt legislation that would federal courts to review cases when the medical treatment desire of individuals is not known and the patient's family has a dispute over the care.
"According to these poll results, many Americans do in fact agree with what we're trying to accomplish," she said.
The poll found that 49 percent of Americans believe there should be exceptions to the right of a spouse to act as a guardian for an incapacitated spouse. Only 39 percent disagreed.
When asked directly about Terri's case and told the her estranged husband Michael "has had a girlfriend for 10 years and has two children with her" 56 percent of Americans believed guardianship should have been turned over to Terri's parents while 37 percent disagreed.
Here you go.
http://abstractappeal.com/schiavo/trialctorder0300.pdf
Shows tests were done every year up to 1997.
You know the answer to that question, why ask?
Was his ruling within the letter of the law?
Was it examined by other Judges and found to be within the scope of his power, and the letter of the law?
Well, that's it for me folks.
This has been an exercise in futility.
I think we're dealing with a couple if ossified brains here - and there's no getting any facts chiseled into them...
nite
Turning from the law to policy, did you read Krauthammer's article on the subject? If so, what did you think?
Of the two of you, which one had jurisdiction?
So, you have "no right" to intervene if it appears that I am murdering my loved one?
Was the letter of the law righteous before God?
It was within his power, and not an abuse of discretion, from what I know, and thus not reversible, within the law. As I said, Greer had the power of God, as it were. That is a very great power indeed.
It wasn't me it appears.
(10) "Life-prolonging procedure" means any medical procedure, treatment, or intervention, including artificially provided sustenance and hydration, which sustains, restores, or supplants a spontaneous vital function. The term does not include the administration of medication or performance of medical procedure, when such medication or procedure is deemed necessary to provide comfort care or to alleviate pain.
Ah yes, bow down to the human letter which transcends those dusty old fashioned Commandments.
Like the poll, but won't trust Zogby's political polls at all anymore. He's a failure at doing polls and kept predicting the whole Presidential race wrong.
Is this righteous before God?
Stop the lies. She was not in a PVS. She was severely disabled. Limited cognitive ability. She was a burden to her cheating husband and he wanted to get rid of her. It's an old story.
Florida Statutes 765.101 Definitions.--As used in this chapter:
(10) "Life-prolonging procedure" means any medical procedure, treatment, or intervention, including artificially provided sustenance and hydration, which sustains, restores, or supplants a spontaneous vital function. The term does not include the administration of medication or performance of medical procedure, when such medication or procedure is deemed necessary to provide comfort care or to alleviate pain.
Have you off on vacation on another planet? Watch this video if you dare...coopy/paste, if necc
http://web.Tampabay.rr.com/ccb/videos/Terri_Big_Eyes.rm
No, that wouldn't touch her air. Her air would migrate by natural laws into the vacuum pump.
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