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The story continues on the woman who was "PVS" and conscious. Terri's dad comments...

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St. Petersburg, FL (LifeNews.com) -- Terri Schiavo's father reacted to news about a 23 year-old British woman supposedly in a so-called "vegetative state" who stunned doctors by responding to certain commands asked of her. The results have been displayed in brain imaging showing more is going on in her head than meets the eye.

Although the unnamed woman can't move or speak, she has responded to sentences spoken to her and even played an imaginary game of tennis in her head, her doctors say.

The results have all been recorded on a brain scanner and show that disabled patients like Terri Schiavo or those who are comatose may be much more aware than they appear.

Terri’s father, Robert Schindler, agrees and, in a statement sent to LifeNews.com, said the case shows more should have been done to save his daughter's life and to listen to experts who said she wasn't as bad off as her former husband made it appear.

“This new case is not surprising to our family," Schindler said.

Terri Schiavo's Father Reacts to Woman in Vegetative State Responding

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Where have all the flowers gone,long time passing...

In a warehouse-sized coffee shop in the shadow of an elevated subway line, Donna Edwards and her retinue of volunteers are waiting for the music to begin. Edwards, a candidate for Maryland's Fourth Congressional District, has enticed guitarist Peter Yarrow (of Peter, Paul, and Mary) to strum a few tunes. The appointed moment arrives, but Edwards waits: The coffee shop is only half full, and most of its denizens are unaware of the political event that brought a small assemblage--mostly Edwards's campaign staff and her family--to the front of the room. And it stands to reason: There were just two weeks left until Edwards, a foundation executive from Fort Washington, faces U.S. Representative Al Wynn, an incumbent in his seventh term whose commanding presence has scared away every political challenge he has encountered in seven races.

But some say that tomorrow's Democratic primary might be different. Edwards has accumulated no small support from the left in Maryland--not to mention The Washington Post's endorsement--by pointing out, time and time again, that Wynn, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), is out of line with his voters and his party. Not only does he vote the wrong way, she says, but he votes the wrong way at precisely the wrong times--and especially when Democrats crave unity. Wynn voted to intervene in the Terri Schiavo affair. He endorsed a constitutional amendment to ban flag burning. He voted to repeal the estate tax--several times. He is, she has said, "Maryland's Joe Lieberman."

Maryland's own Joe Lieberman... Wynn Again

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Let no one forget that Michael specifically refused to let Terri have up-to-date brain tests of this sort. In fact, he refused over and over again. Obviously he was afraid they would reveal his lies and show that Terri was conscious after all.

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>> "The danger of this diagnosis is that it is being used as a reason to kill innocent people with disabilities, like Terri," her father added. "We believe that this PVS diagnosis is inhumane and it should be abolished.”

If I'm not mistaken, the concept of "persistent vegetative state" came along in the early 1970s, right on the heels of Harvard's invention of "brain death." Can it be coincidence that both of these "conditions" are used for declaring care futile? For killing patients?

PVS is anything but an exact medical condition, like, say, measles. You can hardly find two brain experts who even agree what it is in detail. The media treat PVS like some sort of divine revelation, but in truth it's one of the most subjective, controversial diagnoses in all of medicine.

Bob Schindler is exactly right. "PVS" is unscientific and malign. It should be abolished.