Looks like Michael was right after all.
Schiavo Autopsy Shows Massive Brain Damage – AP on Yahoo! News
Felos statement about Schiavo autopsy – BayNews9
Schindlers’ attorney responds – BayNews9
President and Governor Bush stand firm – BayNews9
The autopsy showed that Schiavo’s brain had shrunk to about half the normal size for a woman her age and that it bore signs of severe damage. “This damage was irreversible, and no amount of therapy or treatment would have regenerated the massive loss of neurons,” said Pinellas-Pasco County Medical Examiner Dr. Jon Thogmartin, who led the autopsy team. He also said she was blind, because the “vision centers of her brain were dead.”
That seems pretty definitive. Her blindness shows that the family was simply seeing what they wished to be true. They seemed to want to convince the world Terri was a pilates class away from a triathlon, when the important brain centers that makes us what we are were simply gone.
That footage of Terri seeming to track a balloon was the result of doing the same thing over and over and only showing the results that support a foregone conclusion. Michael said the Schindlers had taped for hours but only released the 10 or 15 seconds that were played on news shows so many times. The Schindler’s played the press like a fiddle and the press lapped it up because it got ratings.
Michael Schiavo’s attorneys made a lengthy statement saying basically that Michael is pleased at the results. He also leaving open the possibility of a defamation suit down the road in responce to a question during the press conference.
The Schindler’s attorneys made a statement that Bob Schindler still thinks his daughter may have been abused. They repeated that bald faced lie that Terri starved to death despite the autopsy report finding of dehydration as the cause of death. I guess it gets more donations to use inflammatory terms rather than truth. They also hold open the possibility of a wrongful death lawsuit. You would think parties on both sides would be sick of court proceedings by now.
The President and his bro’ Jeb! are unswayed by fact, autopsy reports or being wrong about most aspects of the case. I guess they didn’t want to “get into a debate with [themselves]” even when provably wrong.
Has I said prior to the release of the report here: Schiavo Autopsy On the Way, nothing in the report is going to change minds. Who needs scientific reports when you already have the “truth”?
