Posted on 03/19/2005 9:18:52 AM PST by EveningStar
Wolfson's report is based on court files, depositions, medical records and interviews with everyone involved.
That said, I begin with the most explosive allegation:
Did Michael try to kill Terri?
Wolfson laughs. "No!"
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Wolfson's report states that in the four years after her collapse, Michael "had insistently held to the premise that Theresa could recover and the evidence is incontrovertible that he gave his heart and soul to her treatment and care . . . In late autumn of 1990, following months of therapy and testing and formal diagnoses of persistent vegetative state with no evidence of improvement, Michael took Theresa to California, where she received an experimental thalamic stimulator implant in her brain. Michael remained in California caring for Theresa during a period of several months."
Says Wolfson now: "Michael was adoring of her. One nursing home complained he was hostile and abusive of the staff in championing her care. She was immaculately kept. In 13 years, she never had one bedsore."
(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...
Since you like responding with only facts, Hildy, you tell me when the Schindlers said, or even hinted, that their daughter "died 15 years ago".
How hypocritical is it for you et al to voice your indignation over what you think is the US Congress overextending it's authority yet you have the gall to think you determine when people are are no longer viable.
My focus is not Terri specifically. My focus is the change in healthcare in this country and the culture of death.
I don't care about Terri's husband nor his attorney all that much. They are the small fry in this game.
My understanding is that the Schindlers have had at least two court appointed doctors at various times. Had an MRI been recommended, I would be surprised if they would not authorize it.
Taking up with another woman is understandable under the circumstances, but it should invalidate him from being her guardian due to conflict of interest and other issues.
This article is slanted the way everything else is you read about the case no matter who you side with. The truth is probably somewhere in between and the bottom line is murder by starvation.
There is little objectivity on either side, moreso by the pro-death crowd. I excuse the parents who love her if they have been forced to misrepresent anything in the least little way. Under the circumstances, it could be morally justified.
No matter what the facts leading up to this happen to be, she is as of this moment being murdered by starvation, with her husband and lawyer as the primary agents, and the courts as the enablers who seem to want to wash their hands of the entire affair because it has become a nuisance to them, too.
There are other aspects of all this which should have been investigated that were swept under the carpet. That is reprehensible.
http://www.zimp.org/stuff/04%20-%20JACKIERHODESTESTIMONY.htm
http://www.coloradorighttolife.org/news_updates/terri20050215.htm
This topic has the tendency to really inflame passions. I do not think Michael Schiavo has her best interest at heart, and he should just do the right thing and give her over to her parents, IMO.
He is killing her, that can't be argued, and that he was allowed to do this by a PROBATE judge is really hard to take in.
Yes. In fact, while washing her face they must take special care to avoid her lips and mouth, because hydration might accidentally result.
Because he gave her his word he would carry out her wishes and see her dead, and her loony parents would keep her shell vegitating forever.
So9
Prepare to be villified.
I'm sorry about your sister. I'm sure it's one of the most difficult decisions a family member ever has to make.
I hope you don't gamble. You may not be good at it.
If they manage to successfully Kill Terri, we will see WHO PAYS for her burial and services. That will be telling as well.
If he didn't, why would he go through all of this craziness. AND PLEASE DON'T SAY MONEY.
Because MURDER has not statute of limitations, and they can KILL YOU if convicted.
Did he do everything possible to help his wife? I say NO!
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/orl-locmiket25022505feb25,1,4110236.column?ctrack=1&cset=true
I wouldn't be surprised. From AlbionGirl's post above: "I stopped him and told him that these [MRI] tests have never been done for her; that Michael had refused them."
Michael received that money for her care and rehab and there has been no accounting of where that money went. None. His lawyer says the bulk of it went to pay him and other lawyers for their services to litigate against her parents who do not want her to be starved. Michael has not filed (as required by FL law) any accounting of how that $ was spent and that is fine with Judge Greer. In order to remain her guardian, he is ordered by law to make that filing, but he has not, and he has not been removed as her guardian either. Explain that.
He has no proof at all. It is heresay. It should not stand up in court. The benefit of the doubt should go in favor of life, especially when the method of death is so long and gruesome. Even the bigamist never claimed she wanted to be starved to death.
exactly...
I read the same in some newspaper article, but would have to go dig it up. Instead, I will let you look if you don't believe it.
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