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Your use of the word purported reveals that it's you who has no knowlege of the case. Again I refer you to the court record. The findings of the court reflect that indeed Michael Schiavo made extensive efforts at providing rehabilitive therapy for Terri. Not good enough? Read the Guardian ad Litem's report wherein he describes Shiavos efforts as greater than one would normally expect of a guardian. The findings of the court are the legal facts in this case.

I used the words "freak of nature" because they apply. The Dr.'s have testified and the court has so found that the tissue comprising Terri's cerebral cortex is DEAD. Absent a cerebral cortex it is scientific and medical fact that there can be no cognition. Anencephalics are born without a cerebral cortex and there is not one scientist or doctor who will tell you that they have any consious thought or awareness of their surroundings.

Dead brain tissue cannot be repaired or regrown. Is is just that- DEAD TISSUE.

As to whether or not the Schindler's have access to the medical records you tell me. I've certainly seen selected portions of those inaccessible records posted her at FR and at the Terri websites. Additionally during the Court process, both on this issue and the malpractice suits, they were certainly were available and reveiwed extensively.

If you are unable to see the obvious differences between circumstance reported in the article you posted and the testimony and evidence presented in this case, you are totally devoid of any critical thinking ability in addition to being ignorant as to the findings of all the courts in this matter and the signicance of the physical evidence presented in those courts.

Your use of the word purported reveals that it's you who has no knowlege of the case

pur·port·ed ( P ) Pronunciation Key (pr-pôrtd, -pr-) adj.
Assumed to be such; supposed: the purported author of the story.
[Middle English purporten, to set forth, from Anglo-Norman purporter : pur-, forth (from Latin pr-. See pro-1) + porter, to carry (from Latin portre. See per-2 in Indo-European Roots).] source

Got a problem with the definition of the word, 'purported'?

Again I refer you to the court record.

Got links?

The findings of the court reflect that indeed Michael Schiavo made extensive efforts at providing rehabilitive therapy for Terri. Not good enough?

Not if "the court" who made this "finding" = ONE MAN, Judge Greer, who has shown himself to be biased against the Schindlers. Most higher courts that refused to hear the case based their decision on jurisdictional issues, not the merits of the Schindler's case, IIRC. If you have evidence to the contrary, please post.

If you are unable to see the obvious differences between circumstance reported in the article you posted and the testimony and evidence presented in this case, you are totally devoid of any critical thinking ability

You're setting up a straw man. No one has said that Maria Tetto's case is exactly the same as Terri's, in every single aspect. Of course there are "irrelevant" differences: For instance, Maria is different in that she is not married to Michael Schiavo -- so fortunately, her parents who love her are able to make decisions regarding her care. You fail to show any known and "relevant" difference between Maria Tetto and Terri Schindler Schiavo.

What's important to note about Maria Tetto's case is that, just as in the Terri Schiavo case, doctors insisted that Maria's smiles and hand squeezes were mere "reflexes," and that she had no hope of rehabilitation. THEY WERE WRONG.

I used the words "freak of nature" because they apply.

Thanks for revealing yourself, Dr. Mengele.

I also note you fail to acknowledge that Schiavo's "extensive efforts at providing rehabilitive therapy for Terri" were over 10 years ago.

Since that time, Schiavo has even refused to allow therapy to prevent Terri's hand contractions so that her nails would not dig into her palms!

Maria Tetto's parents were able to obtain medication that prevents the contraction of Maria's hands. NOW MARIA IS ABLE TO WRITE.

Interesting also, that you fail to note another "relevant" similarity between Maria Tetto and Terri Schiavo: They are both still fed by feeding tube.

Maria can speak, make jokes, laugh, write, and go to school. Why can't Terri be given the chance?

You discount that MS stopped rehabilition...and by that I am not only writing of speech pathologists, therapists-physical, outings (you know, sitting in the sunshine), any color in her room-ie flowers, no noise, ie TV or radio or even MUSIC!!!

And when did he do this...soon after he received the money to cover the COSTS of rehabilitation.

Oh yes...he spent a little over two years proving himself to be a GREAT PROVIDER of REHABILITATION while he busily formed his lawsuit.

Once one...this man changed from the 'good husband' into a MONSTER who not only demanded his wife NOT BE HELPED if she should, for example, CHOKE, catch an infection, etc.

But worse-he has made what life Terri has a living HELL.

And he has punished, in the most breathtakingly way possible, her parents. Whose suffering, knowing what Michael has been doing, must be unbearable.

They are denied accesss to their dtrs medical records, which if in order, could grant them some relief.

They are even punished by NOT BE ALLOWED to visit and love their dtr up....during those times when Michael needs them to shape up and toe the line better.

Michael has TREATENED nurses with FIRING if they offer ANY therapy to Terri...note the affidavit of Carly Iyers, who was afraid of Michael, like many of the health care workers were.

She placed a balled up wash cloth in terri's CRUMPLED UP HAND-to relieve the pressure of her drawn up, curled fingers, and to help absorb the sweat on her palms, and Michael HIT THE FAN over that mild gesture of comfort...calling it therapy.

There is something deeply and horribly wrong with MS. Deeply. The evidence is astounding.

And to have to know your dtrs fate rests at the whim of this vampire, this monster who SPENT his wife's, THEIR DTRS. rehabilitation money, ON A LAWYER who wants to see her put to death, based a a late memory by MS that this was her wish (WHY WASN"T HE TELLING THIS WISH TO THE FOLKS WHO FORKED OVER THE MONEY TO HIM IN THE LAWSUIT...ANYWHERE IN THE LAWSUIT DID IT SAY THAT TERRI WANTED TO DIE???? Nope.)

Nice, huh! A nice living hell to know your daughter not only has to suffer her injury (which was NOT a heart attack) but has to suffer zero gentle comforts everyday of her life. Because someone (s) in her life...want her dead.