Schiavo: The Final Chapter
I never wanted to weigh in on the Schiavo case at all. I eventually did because the Republican's behavior was so self-righteously horrendous, judgmental, meddling, anti-American and downright scary that I felt compelled. Their behavior demonstrated how the Republican party is now being controlled by extreme religious demagogues who only believe in their strict interpretation of the Bible and who abhor science and forsake facts when and where it suits them.
The autopsy of Terri Schiavo has been finalized and these are the results,
- The autopsy found that her brain was so severely damaged that no amount of therapy would have helped to regenerate it
- "She would not have been able to form any cognitive thought"
- "There was a massive loss of brain tissue."
- Schiavo died of dehydration and did not starve to death
- Any fractures could be attributed to severe osteoporosis Schiavo suffered during the years after her collapse
- Schiavo could not have swallowed if she had been fed by mouth and would have choked
- Removal of her feeding tube would have resulted in her death, whether she was fed and hydrated by mouth or not
- No evidence to support allegations that Schiavo had been given poison by her husband
(Read more here, Schiavo had irreversible brain damage-autopsy)
I'm not going to harp on being right again or shove things like "I told you so" down your throat, after all this is a human tragedy exacerbated by the Republican party and making such comments would make my actions no better than theirs. As for those of you who were politically motivated in trying to deceive people into believing that this was the decision of liberals, when in fact the repeated decisions were made by a Christian conservative judge, the Florida Supreme Court and the United States Supreme Court, I have just one thing to say to you:
Had you left this as a personal decision to be made by a loving husband you wouldn't look like the cold-hearted ignorant fools that you do right now.
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