Quoting from the article:
"While Gaskill's case doesn't parallel the late Terri Schiavo's exactly - Schiavo was in what some experts said was a persistent vegetative state for 15 years - doctors had all but given up hope that Gaskill would ever recover."
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That is what makes the headline rather dubious. "Schiavo-like" -- as the article states further down from the screaming headline -- Ms. Gaskill case is obviously not the same as Mrs. Schiavo's. Truth is, doctors really don't know in many of these situations whether someone will recover from such brain damage. This particular woman's accident occurred two years ago. Mrs. Schiavo was incognizant for 15 years. There are also different degrees of mental function in both women.
As far as I'm concerned, stories like these are being put in our face now, not to celebrate a miracle, but rather, to inflame emotions and get people into an uproar. People like Ms. Gaskill are being used to further someone's agenda, and while I rejoice in Ms. Gaskill's recovery, I feel sorry that she is being used in such a way.
Perhaps she is being "used" (as you put it) to further a lot of agendas--mainly, prevention of killing people who are not actually dying. This notion of killing people off just because they've become inconvenient really has to be exposed for what it is. With abortion, the ultrasound pictures are finally proving what a lot of pro-lifers have said all along--those aren't "fetuses"--they're real, live babies. I hope one day we can do the same with the so-called PVS patients--many of whom do in fact come back, and often recall all that went on while they were unable to speak for themselves.
Stories like this are news and current events.
They didn't dig up a miraculous recovery from 15 years ago.
It is a recovery from this week, just like the firemean waking up after 10 years was from 2 weeks ago.
** Mrs. Schiavo was incognizant for 15 years. **
Not true! Terri was speaking words and responding to family in the early 90's. Hardly incognizant. Perhaps you should do some reading on what her doctors and therapist said in their medical reports.