Denise (MiracleChild)wrote the following message to BlogsforTerri:
I have a disabled daughter. At 4 months of age, a highly respected UCLA neurologist told us based on her MRI's and his physical inspection of her that our daughter's cerebral cortex area of her brain was hugely gone. He went on to further say that we should just try to make her as comfortable as possible, and not to invest in any therapies as they would not help. As you could imagine, this news devasted my husband and I....it did not however deter us.
While Amy (now 4) still cannot swallow her own saliva (and Terri can), through a long process we taught her to eat everything by mouth. Due to intense physical therapy and other alternative treatments, Amy is taking assisted steps and beginning to sit. We did not give up on her.
I have looked at Terri Schiavo's videos, I have spoken via e-mail with Mr. Schindler, and I am 100% positive that Terri is no different than my daughter. Even with the many years that Terri has been left with no therapy and stimulation, there is still hope. Will she ever have full capacity, the answer is no. But I have seen the eyes of my little girl daily for 4 years and I have seen the eyes of Terri. Terri is not brain dead she is alive.
It seems to me that the issue that is being overlooked by so many who are hell-bent to kill this woman is that she is just a mentally handicapped person.
Is she really more or less than that?
And if she is a mentally handicapped person isn't the core issue the simple fact that she is an inconvience to her husband and his new "family"?
How do we as a society justify the killing of those who would inconvience us?
Well....we have been doing it for 3 decades under Roe-V-Wade.
In the process of abortion the liberal leaning politcal party that is known as the Democratic Party has aborted itself out of power. Most abortions are done on women who would vote for that party, and teach their children to follow them. They have simply aborted a few million of their voters.
And how far is the leap from killing an inconvient baby to an inconvient wife?
What seems to be widely overlooked is the fact that 19 judges in the Florida courts have sat before this case and all have concluded that it was indeed the wish of Mrs. Schiavo to not be kept alive in such a state. Her sad case has been turned into a "right-to-life" cause simply because her wishes were expressed through her husband. She is relying on him to carry those wishes out. Mrs. Schiavo is not a young child who never had an opinion in the first place.