His opening gaffe on Terri so early opened a wound the media just loves to exploit...
* Asked about his thoughts on the Terri Schiavo matter, Thompson said, “That’s going back in history. I don’t remember the details of it.”
Fred Thompson clueless again, this time on Iraqi WMD
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“Brain regions involved in language, movement and navigation, which would be active when someone was playing tennis, wandering around a building, or imagining doing so, lighted up in ways that were 'indistinguishable' from those in 12 healthy people," according to the Post. The researchers reported that the fMRIs “confirmed beyond any doubt that [the patient] was consciously aware of herself and her surroundings, and was willfully following instructions given to her, despite her diagnosis of a vegetative state.”
You can imagine the implications for patients who, like Terri Schindler Schiavo, have been diagnosed to be in a PVS. They routinely are given only the most modest care and, as the case with Terri, can be starved and dehydrated to death.
Re-Defining My Life Away: Turning PVS Patients Into Non-Persons
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