<p>I am totally serious.</p>
<p>Can't the parents let their daughter go home to her maker?</p>
<p>There is something very wrong with the parents.</p>
<p>Lost in the sauce is the fact that, as her brother stated to day, the family does not KNOW why she collapsed...there was no "heart attack"...she was 26 and healthy...that, plus the fact that everyone describes the guy as a control freak, tells me he put her where she is and has tried desperately for years to keep her from coming back to point the finger at him. What made me cringe was the nurse who testified he mumbled to himself,"When's that b**** gonna die?"</p>
<p>Joemama, others who have "lived like that" and came out of it (not saying she could) say they changed their minds when put into the situation. It is easy in theory to say you'd rather be dead, but it appears when push comes to shove, most don't end up feeling that way.</p>
<p>calidan, who are you to judge the quality of her life?<br>
IvyH20, where'dja hear 20 million for life insurance? Woe...</p>
<p>Why won't the parents and the Republican rightwing let poor Terri go home to be with Jesus, where she will be whole and happy once again?</p>
<p>rumbean22, just curious, can you give me the cites for the anecdotes of those who've "lived like that"?</p>
<p>also, IvyH20, can you give me the cite for the $20 million figure?</p>
<p>babybird87, i'd just looked into the whole refusal of giving terri an MRI test, and i am appalled. having had a pretty solid bio background (took neurobio last year), i just ASSUMED they already gave her either an MRI or a PET scan (where brain activity is monitored by different regions' consumption of tagged glucose). how could they just say that her cerebral cortex has been "liquefied" just based on CT scans?? this is ridiculous.</p>
<p>that would definitely change some things. i was under the impression that the overwhelming evidence suggests that terri has no awareness. but without the aforementioned tests, i don't see how they could make a conclusive assessment. if she does have awareness, then yes, tube removal would be beyond cruel. i just hope karma comes around.</p>
<p>taurus, I agree. when i looked into MRI's, I was shocked they had not administered one. Then I heard some doctors discussing that seriously, they'd never even heard of a patient like that not receiving an MRI! It seems the husband is trying to hide something (even if he's not) by not allowing this MRI to happen. I say that the state needs to find a way to go around his refusal and do it anyway, so this can be settled. What a bastard that guy is.</p>
<p>Now this is a debate of medical procedure...which I am totally useless in.</p>
<p>Perhaps here the medical concerns and the legal concerns are dead set against each other</p>
<p>This is very interesting.</p>
<p>I just saw a news report where a doctor said tests had been administered that measured Terri's brain activity. There was none. No activity whatsoever.</p>
<p>MRIs look at shape, texture, density and size of tissue, they do not measure anything else. Useless for Terri's case.</p>
<p>I want very much to come down on one side of this MRI thing...but I only know the law...Maybe I shouldn't have slept so much in A.P Bio</p>
<p>Whatever tests were administered, joemama, they are not of the sufficient "bottom line" credibility that an MRI is. As for the claim an MRI would reveal nothing, are you really going to disagree with the specific procedures of most doctors regarding brain damaged patients? What makes you an expert? Even the lone political agenda driven doctor who says Terri is in a comatose state would not be so bold as to say an MRI would reveal nothing.</p>
<p>Anyway, a judge has refused to allow Florida to take custody of her. So unless Jeb Bush sends the National Guard in, it looks like it's done.</p>
<p>"I just saw a news report where a doctor said tests had been administered that measured Terri's brain activity. There was none. No activity whatsoever.</p>
<p>MRIs look at shape, texture, density and size of tissue, they do not measure anything else. Useless for Terri's case."</p>
<p>i don't know what "tests" they're talking about, the only scanning type of test that i heard they've done is the CT test, and that's even worse than MRI. at least MRI will give you clearer physical images of the extent of the brain's deterioration, and the PET scan DOES measure brain activity.</p>
<p>"MRIs look at shape, TEXTURE, DENSITY, and size of tissue."
Liquified is certainly a texture.</p>
<p>$20 Million: 2 Days ago, THE FOX REPORT WITH SHEPARD SMITH</p>
<p>Our supreme legislative body did NOT give up part of their break and work like crazy to have a few Napoleon-Syndromatic judges simply throw it down the drain. I'm all for Jeb Bush sending the National Guard and George sending the US Task Force.</p>
<p>It seems that it's over now. It's a shame that instead of at least making an educated decision about the issue, those to the left of extreme have used this poor woman as an avenue for an impossible goal of social upheaval. It's necessary to have 2 parties, but we have three: Republicans, Democrats, and Kennedys.</p>
<p>Here, Ann explains things rationally (as always)
<a href="http://www.anncoulter.com/%5B/url%5D">http://www.anncoulter.com/</a></p>
<p>Although she is more than a little politically biased, she still argues well for Terri.</p>
<p>i love ann coulter</p>
<p>MRI does not measure brain activity.</p>
<p>Every quack with a crazy idea has come out of the woodwork with an opinion or claim--it seems the wilder the better--so they can be on TV or achieve some other item on their agenda.</p>
<p>That's why the courts have stopped listening.</p>
<p>Let the poor lady go home to God, where she now belongs.</p>
<p>Anyone who listens to Anne Coulter, and Fox News for that matter, throws away his right to be taken seriously.</p>
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<p>Oh yeah, those hard-working Republican Congressmen sure were right to subpoena a brain-dead woman for no purpose other than to circumvent court orders. I mean they've got nothing better to do anyway, right? They don't need to worry about Social Security or raising the minimum wage or anything like that...</p>
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To the contrary, what has gone down in history as a glorious moment for the republic was when President Dwight Eisenhower (Republican) called out military force of his own. In response to Gov. Faubus' abuse of the National Guard, Eisenhower simultaneously revoked Faubus' control of the National Guard and ordered the 101st Airborne Division to escort black students to school. (Minutes later, Democrats pronounced the Arkansas public schools a "hopeless quagmire" and demanded to know what Ike's exit strategy was.)
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<p>This was the most amusing part of the essay, in my opinion. Apparently Anne is not aware of the pre-Kennedy political alignment of the parties. Before Kennedy's open support for Martin Luther King created a 180 in terms of affiliation, the Democratic Party was the conservative one and the Republican Party was the more liberal (for 1950). Yes there were already left-leaning Democrats (i.e. FDR) but there have been books written showing how the 1960 campaign reversed the political landscape in America). Why do you think that the Democrats controlled the South for decades and Republican domination of that area has only been a relatively recent phenomenon. You think the South was liberal until 1970?</p>
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despite rulings by the majestic and infallible Florida courts granting custody of the boy to that very family.
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<p>Yeah the same Florida courts that went against Democracy and handed Bush the presidency in 2000. I think the Schiavo case is the first case that's made national headlines that the Florida court system hasn't screwed up. It's about time they got something right.</p>
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Liberals' newfound respect for "federalism" is completely disingenuous. People who support a national policy on abortion are prohibited from ever using the word "federalism."
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<p>That's funny, she is against a woman's right to choose whether or not to have a baby but she is for hopelessly prolonging the life of a woman who can't make her wishes known now but when she did indicated that she wouldn't want to be kept alive artificially.</p>
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<p>I got news for you. That already happened...in 1830. And, it almost undermined the federal court system in America and led to the Civil War. Guess Ms. Coulter slept her way through her Cornell American history classes.</p>
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<p>Apparently she didn't sleep through her classes but she was too stupid to understand the implications of what they taught; Marshall's ruling in the Cherokee case and Jackson's subsequent ignoring of it prompted a states' rights argument that was eventually adopted by the seceding states after Lincoln's election. Of course, I'm all for the South getting the hell out of the Union, so maybe this isn't such a bad idea after all.</p>
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President Bush would order the FBI to protect her and Gov. Bush would send in the state police.
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<p>Hail Hitler!</p>
<p>Next time you want someone to take you seriously, don't read listen to Anne Coulter.</p>
<p>XANATOS you are a genius, you hit the nail on the head!!!!!! :D :D :D</p>
<p>please, don't tell me my opinion is nothing because I like a smart intelligent woman.</p>
<p>smart intelligent woman does not describe ann coulter,</p>
<p>a modern Eva Braun is closer to what she is, though eva was less horrific than she is</p>