“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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HYANNIS, Massachusetts, October 1, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A Massachusetts woman is demanding the authorities take action against an abortionist, who destroyed her daughter's unborn child while she died of cardiac arrest on his operating table.
Operation Rescue reports that Eileen Smith has initiated legal action against abortionist Rabin Osathanondh in order to prevent her daughter's cruel death from being merely "swept under the rug" as frequently occurs after abortion tragedies.
Smith's 22-year old daughter, Laura Hope Smith, walked into Osathanondh's Women Health Clinic in Hyannis on September 13, 2007, as a healthy young woman engaged to be married before she died on Osathanondh's abortion table. A friend had taken Laura to the abortion clinic without the knowledge of her mother, Eileen, who told Operation Rescue that she never realized her daughter was 13 weeks pregnant and considering an abortion until both her daughter and the child were dead.
Early reports had indicated that Smith's daughter had died of hemorrhage from the abortion, but Smith contends this information is erroneous. "There was no bleeding. She stopped breathing and went into cardiac arrest," said Smith.
Mother Demands Justice against Abortionist for Letting Daughter Die As He Was Killing Her Child
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