>But, why in a nation where one third of the population can't afford
>to go to the doctor, there should be this kind of upheaval for
>keeping a woman in a vegetative state indefinitely....I haven't a
>clue.
It's a small minority of well-organized religious fanatics plus a party in power that wants to pander to its base, and assumes (maybe wrongly) that it has nothing to lose by alienating everyone else.