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...VEGETATIVE STATE DIFFERENT FROM A MINIMALLY CONSCIOUS STATE? A comparatively new designation, minimally conscious state describes people who are not in a vegetative state but who don't show consistent evidence of awareness. For example, they may indicate yes-or-no responses even if they aren't accurate. (Schiavo's parents have argued that their daughter is minimally conscious.) A recent study using specialized brain scans found near normal activity levels in the cortical language centers of some such patients when their loved ones spoke to them, indicating they may retain the potential for cognitive function. Patients in a minimally...
...DOES A PERSON IN A VEGETATIVE STATE SUFFER AFTER NUTRITION AND HYDRATION HAVE BEEN WITHDRAWN? No one knows for certain, of course, what it feels like to be unaware--hence the awful anxiety that is at the heart of the Schiavo debate. But it's quite possible for death under those conditions to be peaceful, at least as far as outside observers can tell. (Indeed, taking to one's bed and refusing to eat while drinking little or nothing was until recently a common way to die.) Moistening the lips and mouth will keep the skin in this area from...
...Robertson called the removal of her feeding tube "judicial murder," and House majority leader Tom DeLay described it as an "act of medical terrorism." Representative Christopher Shays of Connecticut, one of only five House Republicans to vote against Congress's emergency legislation throwing the Terri Schiavo case into the federal courts, declared that "this Republican Party of Lincoln has become a party of theocracy." Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry, acting as spokesman for the parents of the severely brain damaged woman and making even his counterparts on the conservative right wince in embarrassment, inveighed in a mass e-mailing that...
...With Schiavo's life hanging in the balance, and people on both sides of the case holding strong beliefs about her right to live or die, passions were understandably running high. But as the endless barrage of inflammatory rhetoric and sometimes blatant posturing continued, the Florida woman at the center of the bitterly fought case seemed to have become a sideshow. "This is not about Terri Schiavo," says George Annas, chairman of the health law department at Boston University School of Public Health. "I think this is about abortion and stem cells. Congress wants to say that we need...
...hours of the morning--although he could have approved it from his ranch in Texas--President George W. Bush did not escape the public's displeasure. In TIME's poll, 70% disapproved of his role in the drama. As federal and Florida state courts continued to reject appeals from Schiavo's parents to reinsert her feeding tube, Washington may have started to get the message. Bush, DeLay and Senator Bill Frist of Tennessee were suddenly as quiet as the Democrats had been all along; the Republican congressional leaders declined opportunities to speak about Schiavo on the Sunday-morning talk shows...