Sorry. But this ticks me off NO end! And no one has gone PUBLIC..it's just been on the internet.
"It was the latest attempt to sway public opinion in Missouri's most recent right-to-die case: On February 4, the state supplied videotape to St. Louis television stations which it said showed that Christine Busalacchi, severely brain-damaged almost four years ago, is no longer in a persistent vegetative state. Missouri is trying to keep the 20-year-old woman's father, Pete Busalacchi, from moving his daughter to another state."
"All four St. Louis television stations covering the hearing asked for and received copies of the tape. All four aired about 60 seconds of it, each linking the tape to testimony asserting that Busalacchi could respond to comments from hospital staff members and that she could move her legs."
Christine Busalacchi, who never tired of using the call button to call her nurses, spoke some simple words quite appropriately, and ate solid food quite well, was on the cover of Time magazine during the time her father was attempting to have her killed.
Christine was eventually killed by dehydration, as the courts paid no attention to Time magazine, the full-page ads in the newspaper her nurses took out begging for help to save her life, or the four televisions stations airing video of Christine, which purportedly (originally) also showed her waving to them as they left.
I believe Christine was killed, at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis, in 1991. Over ten years ago. We are very, very late in entering this battle.
pc93, Fox Fans are being invited to join Terri's Fight. Thanks go out to nutmeg.