I didn’t read the full 39 page report on Terri Schiavo’s autopsy, but Michelle Malkin did. She took the time not only to read it but point out facts that are contradictory to what Michael Schiavo said. In fact one section of the report said Terri never had a low potassium level, which was apparently the case that made her collapse. Michael then sued the Doctor that “should of” diagnosed Terri with this. Not only did Schiavo [probably] ruin that Doctor’s career but he is $1,000,000 richer for no reason.
Malkin also points out the media supporting Michael’s claim:
Unquestioning journalists ran dozens of stories echoing the claim: “Eating disorder is real issue in Schiavo case,” “Terri’s life a lesson in dangers of bulimia,” “The lost lesson of Schiavo case: the dangers of eating disorders,” etc.
Take five minutes out of your time to read Malkin’s report.
I wanted to point out that the fight over whether Terri was in a PVS or whether she could tell what was going on wasn’t the whole case. The fact that Terri was alive and there were people willing to take care of her is large part of the fight for her life. Terri had her parents, brother, sister, and many others who would do anything to keep her alive. Heck even people who didn’t know Terri risked being arrested just to cross the police line and give her water.
The way that Terri died was another factor in this traumatic case. I don’t care if the doctors say she can’t feel being starved to death [for two weeks]. I don’t have a M.D., but IMHO if you haven’t been in that situation or asked anyone who has been in that situation – you don’t know. Terri was starved to death, and if you can defend that there is something seriously wrong with you.
A look at other blogs ..
Lorie says why are all the cable news talk shows going after Republicans for supporting Terri .. there were Democrats too:
... what about all the Democrats in the House and Senate that joined Republicans in trying to prevent the starvation death of Teri Schiavo? Is Tom Harkin a Republican? He was one of the strongest supporters of the action on the Schiavo case.
La Shawn Barber says what I am trying to say perfectly:
Forget about what you’d want if you were ever in the same condition. Take yourselves out of the equation.
The Anchoress says it was Terri’s life that was taken from her:
In other words, the world will go on as usual. Terri Schiavo didn’t have a life you or I would want…but it was her life, and it was taken from her, and not even by the fast, compassionate means by which we execute murderers. A woman who was not brain dead, not fatally injured and not dying is dead, really, for no good reason, and the battle between the Culture of Life and the Deatheaters goes on.
The Anchoress also stresses that we still don’t know what caused Terri to go in a “PVS”. I mean come on, lets fact it .. Terri wasn’t beaten with a baseball bat. However the argument was she was hit and bruised. Again, I am not doctor but I am sure you can not see signs of bruises and beatings fifteen years after it happened.
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2:31 pm [ Quote ]
The culture of death is the defiant administration bringing a daily dose of death and destruction to our troops in Iraq.
The culture of death is ignoring the mounting environmental issues that the majority of the other nations are taking seriously.
The culture of death is responsible for turning a blind eye to the gassing of the Kurds and then using it as a pretext for a deadly invasion and occupation almost two decades later.
The culture of death is responsible for the destruction of a federal building in Oklahoma City.
The culture of death is responsible for the deaths of over 1700 American Soldiers—backed by bogus claims on bogus evidence concerning the reason for the invasion in Iraq.
The culture of death finds its home in a country where domestic people kill each other daily more than any other nation in the world; with rapings, killings, shootings and road rage the like of which no other “first world” country has ever seen.
The culture of death married to fanatic patriotism is a good cue for those who wish to leave.
My contention is that Americans today have turned the constitution into their own personal sounding board for their own brand of tyranny—a mockery of what our country stands for.
You people continue to sit and eat your own fecal material—never do any honest research, just keeping patting yourselves on the backs while your leaders loot the treasury department with their debt-friendly policies.
3:00 pm [ Quote ]
That is a bogus claim.
Let me guess, you were for the death of Terri. Hypocrite.
4:20 pm [ Quote ]
It is not a bogus claim—just a claim that some people are not willing to accept. The fact is that 1714 casualties have resulted from the bogus war in Iraq. The revolving door of excuses forwarded by this administration shows clearly that no real justification exists for sending 1714 American soldiers to their deaths—it is not even debatable that the “WMD” justification stance has clearly faltered under the mountain of evidence (or lack thereof) proving to the contrary.
I was not “for” the death of Terri, unless you believe that I did something to cause her initial collapse and coma. I was actually against Michael Shiavo and thought him to be a heartless and incredibly cold man. I would have liked to see Terri’s fate be handed over to her family—as it should always be. I thought that Michael was a bastard for putting the parents through this terrible ordeal.
That being said, I don’t create buzz-phrases like “culture of death” and blame the world problems on other people’s opinions.
So take these insults and cram them back into the Republican noise machine were they came from.
4:49 pm [ Quote ]
>>Heck even people who didn’t know Terri risked being arrested just to cross the police line and give her water.
The autopsy said it wouldn’t have mattered anyway. She couldn’t survive w/o a feeding tube. She couldn’t swallow.
>>Terri was starved to death, and if you can defend that there is something seriously wrong with you.
Did you see the pictures of her brain? There was basically none left.
>>A woman who was not brain dead, not fatally injured and not dying
That is, if you think not being able to swallow anything is living…
What happed wasn’t murder. The law was followed and for whatever reason, Michael felt there was no reason to keep her in vegetable form. Because that’s what it was, she was blind, her brain was over half-gone, and she couldn’t swallow.
“The brain weighed 615 grams, roughly half of the expected weight of a human brain,” the coroner said. “This damage was irreversible, and no amount of therapy or treatment would have regenerated the massive loss of neurons.”
You’re just upset that President Bush was wrong on this one. Most people that were fighting for “life” were on that side because they felt she could be rehabilitated. Now we know that that was not true.
5:05 pm [ Quote ]
At the time .. they did not know.
Again at the time we didn’t know that. And even if we did, no one is lesser of a human than you or I. And if you think that way, you should value all types of human life.
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I am not upset President Bush lost on this. Actually if any sort of governmental power lost in this, it was the congress. Bush was on the side of Terri but stayed out of this as much as he could. I wasn’t really happy that the gov’t got into the middle of this, however they tried to do some good .. they stood behind their morals.