"Dr. Ronald Cranford, the euthanasia advocate who hopes to help Pete Busalacchi take care of Christine when she is brought to Minnesota, had a similar case in 1979. Sgt. David Mack was shot in the line of duty as a policeman, and Cranford diagnosed him as "definitely...in a persistent vegetative state...never [to] regain cognitive, sapient functioning...never [to] be aware of his condition." Twenty months after the shooting Mack woke up, and eventually regained nearly all his mental ability. When asked by a reporter how he felt, he spelled out on his letterboard, "Speechless!"
Beautiful!
Stories of "miraculous" recoveries are common. My wife's niece was diagnosed with a hopeless brain disorder and only a short time to live. She not only survived, she lives a good life and takes care of herself, with no medical clouds on the horizon. And she has a heart of gold.
The Left knows this argument perfectly well. They themselves use it often to argue, for instance, against the death penalty because the convicted criminal might be found innocent some day.
Well, Terri and a thousand other disabled people -- innocent, harmless, blameless people -- might recover. But here the Left unfailingly argues that they must die. They exaggerate every detail to show that the person is a vegetable and mustn't be permitted to live.
That gives you a window on how they value life. On the one hand, they are pro-life for hardened criminals and killers on Death Row. On the other, they are pro-death for the innocent and helpless in nursing homes.