Terry Shiavo Back in the News...

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LARGO, Florida (CNN) -- June 15, 2005 An autopsy on Terri Schiavo backed her husband's contention that she was in a persistent vegetative state, finding that she had massive and irreversible brain damage and was blind, the medical examiner's office said Wednesday. It also found no evidence that she was strangled or otherwise abused

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Various conservative or self-described as "pro-life" posters had gotten all hot and indignant at the time.

They were accusing the husband of having abused her, of being a no-good S.O.B., a media-attention seeker and other niceties. They were arguing that Terri Schiavo was not brain dead - the autopsy proved she was even worse than that, she was also blind. Posters were starting new threads with proclamations to the tune of "Terri moved" or "Terri blinked"! We now know that these were mere neurological responses akin to a headless chicken's spasms.

Other posters took the standard conservative line of making this a life-or-death issue. Their president repeatedly made a fool of himself by his opportunistic statements as did several GOPsters from Congress. (Then, upon reading the polls that showed that Americans overwhelmingly resented this heavy handed intrusion of government into a private affair, they all turned tail and dropped the issue altogether. Yes, boys and girls, it's called principles and those people don't have 'em.)


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WASHINGTON (MSN) - March 19, 2005 Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), a renowned heart surgeon before becoming Senate majority leader, went to the floor late Thursday night for the second time in 12 hours to argue that Florida doctors had erred in saying Terri Schiavo is in a "persistent vegetative state."

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"I question it based on a review of the video footage which I spent an hour or so looking at last night in my office," he said in a lengthy speech in which he quoted medical texts and standards. "She certainly seems to respond to visual stimuli."


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Yep, not just congressmen but smart posters (with IQ over 171 !) went all agog at the spectacle of a vicious husband supposedly torturing his wife for fifteen years and then killing her. "The bastard" was the kindest of words used.

And after all this excitement and foolishness, you seriously expect people to learn something, to take into account the latest, incontroverible evidence of the autopsy, to f?cking change their minds??

What are you, some kind of nut? This is the Politics Forum. We play by the MMMMMM rules. Eternal spring-break mentality.