The War on Terri---Postscript

A sad coda to the Terri Schiavo case came with the release of her autopsy this week. (HT: Michelle Malkin)

It's been interesting to watch the media spin this report, which is fairly clear when you read the actual document.

Many questions simply remain unanswered in the postmortem, such as:

- whether Terri was in a PVS (brain weight would tend to indicate yes, but PVS cannot be proved or disproved through an autopsy)

- what caused Terri's condition (bulimia is pretty much debunked, but trauma evidence wouldn't likely be found 15 years after the fact---even if the hospital admittance records showed evidence of it, which they don't)

- whether Terri was abused during her long illness (her bones were very fragile and normal procedures might well have injured her)

Others are definitively answered:

- Terri could not take nutrition or hydration orally

- An MRI wasn't done because she had a neural implant which could have injured her during the diagnostic imaging

- Cause of death was severe dehydration

Of course, the MSM is running around claiming this report somehow debunks the parents' claims. In the case of the notion that she could swallow or that an MRI could have been done, this is true, but the media somehow reads this as confirmation that she was in a PVS, that she entered it as a result of an eating disorder, and that she could never have been rehabilitated. I don't see any such speculation in the report, although I could have missed something, I suppose.

Rest in peace, Terri, and may God hold you close.