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Imagine my surprise coming home from work and the tube in my bedroom had the news on and I hear the local news channel talking about Terri etc. (whom they never said anything about every time I saw them talking on past occassions).. then they say that Oprah is going to be covering Terri's case on Friday at 4PM EST. I thought wow this might be good. But now that I went to her site I see that they are spelling Terri's name Terry and they are talking about Living Wills, etc. nothing about what is really going on. Then I join up on their message board and some woman is saying Terry already decided and her decision was to die. I for one am not going to sit idly by and not say anything so I responded but I think others may want to as well.

I went there, and this is what I posted, pc:

**Terry already decided what she wanted, as determined by medical doctors and our legal system.**

This is not true. Terri has no living will or other legal document stating anything about what her wishes are. She most especially did not leave any legal document or will which stated she would rather be starved to death than live.

The court has allowed Michael Schiavo's hearsay testimony be the "clear and convincing evidence" used to terminate Terri's life. The judge in question has refused to take into account statements made by Terri to her friend, Diane Meyer, while Terri was a young teen (Diane Meyer, recalled watching a movie about Quinlan in the summer of 1982 after they graduated high school. "I remember one of the things she said is, "How did they know she would want this? How did they know she wouldn't want to go on?"' Meyer testified.)

There are bone scans/x-rays performed on the night she "collapsed" which clearly show, according to the radiologist, fractures all over her body; a doctor has testified that damaged vertabrae in her neck are consistent with injuries which would be received by strangulation.

There is a great amount of other evidence that "Judge" Greer has refused to read/see. He admitted, under oath to an Appellate Court, that he ignored numerous doctors' sworn opinions and summarily rejected additional evidence that unmistakably proved Michael Schiavo lied to the court at the original trial.

"Judge" Greer did not read 6 of 7 doctor's reports stating that Terri was not in a PVS state.

There is more information that can be found simply by searching the internet rather than relying on the pureed, inaccurate baby food being fed by the news and certain shows.

It is really scary to me that such a large segment of the population of the United States of America could be working so hard at putting a woman to death who hasn't even committed a crime. Natural human decency says that if there is doubt, err on the side of caution, which is the side of life. This is beyond a matter of "doubt." It has become a matter of willful determination to kill, in spite of overwhelming doubt!

Another thread up tonight:

Governor Sidetracks Schiavo 's Lawsuit