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Friday, April 08, 2005
Zogby polls Schiavo
Several polls showed that the American people opposed having Tom DeLay make end-of-life decisions for them. Now comes John Zogby with a poll for the Christian Defense Coalition with different numbers:The fact that only 80% of Americans said "No" scares the heck out of me. My mother had a stroke on Thanksgiving. She still needs help walking; enough help, in fact, that she is, by any standard, "disabled". She is not terminally ill. She is not in a coma. She is not being kept alive by life support. Should she be denied food and water? Obviously not! (Except that, given her penchant for sweets, she needs to be denied some food so that her teeth don't rot out before she's able to pick up her grandkids again).
What the question leaves out, of course, is the central medical fact that Terri Schiavo was in a persistent vegetative state. Maybe it's wrong-headed, but most people perceive a qualitative difference between a disability and a persistent vegetative state.
