Monday, April 18, 2005

Nat Hentoff on Terri Sciavo

Nat Hentoff, a columnist with the Village Voice, is not known for his knee-jerk support of the Christian Right. He has a few problems with the news coverage, and especially the polling, surrounding the case of Terri Sciavo.

During the intense national debate about the worth of Terri Schiavo's life, a majority of Americans agreed with her husband that they would not want to continue living. But when the pollsters called, did they describe the actual facts of her condition to get the responses that created and confused the national response?

He thinks it may well have been the latter.

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