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June 15, 2005
CSI: Pinellas
The autopsy results came back today for Terri Schiavo. And guess what? The results prove what every informed medical opinion had been saying all along: Terri Schiavo was brain dead, and there was nothing anyone could have done to revive her. That's the same conclusion, of course, that the courts repeatedly found, time and time again -- despite the best efforts of religious zealots and fundamentalists to deny science and reality.
"The brain weighed 615 grams, roughly half of the expected weight of a human brain," [the coroner] said. "This damage was irreversible, and no amount of therapy or treatment would have regenerated the massive loss of neurons."
You'd think that a definitive scientific fact such as this would finally get the zealots to let the poor woman rest in peace. Unfortunately, her parents -- probably prodded by others -- continue to deny reality. They're considering other legal options, according to their attorney. Of course these are the same people who insisted that Terri Schiavo was following their eyes and balloons and was watching them; the autopsy proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that Terri was in fact blind.
But since when has reality been a barrier for religious conservatives? And of course, the zealot-in-chief is leading the charge.
In Washington, White House press secretary Scott McClellan said that the autopsy results did not change the president’s position on her case.
Yep, you heard it straight from the White House, ladies and gentlemen. This president still believes that calling a special session of Congress and railroading through legislation designed to forcibly keep alive a woman whose brain has been scientifically proven to have atrophied away and who was definitively blind and could not be following motions with her eyes... was still the right thing to do. Even knowing that science and observation proved that she had massive brain damage and couldn't see, Bush still thinks that stuffing the government's nose in the family's personal affairs was a good plan.
God bless America, indeed. If I were in charge, I'd make Terri's parents issue a formal, public, strictly worded apology to Michael Schiavo -- and to the citizens of Florida -- for wasting his time, and I'd make them repay every penny of his legal costs.
Comments
C'mon did you think mere science would be enough to convince these people?
Posted by: Corey at June 16, 2005 01:42 PM
