To allow this situation to continue reduces what is left of Terri Schiavo to a legal sideshow. A freak of nature with no right to privacy and a tool of every opportunistic radical group that comes along.You've revealed yourself by calling Terri a "freak of nature."
You also carefully dodge one of the reasons there is so much doubt here. You state:
"Attempts at rehabilitive threrapy have indeed been attempted with no change in Terri's condition"
A more accurate version of this sentence would run:
"Schiavo's purported attempts at rehabilitive therapy were attempted over ten years ago, and, Schiavo purports, with no change in Terri's condition."
Since Schiavo has permitted no therapy in over ten years, it is not known if newer or different kinds of therapy might have had a beneficial effect on Terri.
This assertion of yours is also disingenuous, also:
"the Schindler's have failed to provide the necessary evidence that additional therapy will be of any benefit whatsoever...
It should more accurately read:
"The Schindlers have been denied access to Terri's medical records, and denied the opportunity to test Terri, so they have been unable to provide the necessary evidence that additional therapy will be of any benefit whatsoever..."
As for the article I posted at reply 258: Yes, it does speak for itself. And what it says doesn't speak well for you, or for anyone else who wishes death rather than therapy upon Terri.
Your use of the word purported reveals that it's you who has no knowlege of the case. Again I refer you to the court record. The findings of the court reflect that indeed Michael Schiavo made extensive efforts at providing rehabilitive therapy for Terri. Not good enough? Read the Guardian ad Litem's report wherein he describes Shiavos efforts as greater than one would normally expect of a guardian. The findings of the court are the legal facts in this case.
I used the words "freak of nature" because they apply. The Dr.'s have testified and the court has so found that the tissue comprising Terri's cerebral cortex is DEAD. Absent a cerebral cortex it is scientific and medical fact that there can be no cognition. Anencephalics are born without a cerebral cortex and there is not one scientist or doctor who will tell you that they have any consious thought or awareness of their surroundings.
Dead brain tissue cannot be repaired or regrown. Is is just that- DEAD TISSUE.
As to whether or not the Schindler's have access to the medical records you tell me. I've certainly seen selected portions of those inaccessible records posted her at FR and at the Terri websites. Additionally during the Court process, both on this issue and the malpractice suits, they were certainly were available and reveiwed extensively.
If you are unable to see the obvious differences between circumstance reported in the article you posted and the testimony and evidence presented in this case, you are totally devoid of any critical thinking ability in addition to being ignorant as to the findings of all the courts in this matter and the signicance of the physical evidence presented in those courts.