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A bunch of Terri updates

• Posted by Beth on March 24th, 2005 filed in General, Schiavo    

All cross-posted at BlogsForTerri…

FLORIDA STATE SUPREME COURT DENIES APPEAL AGAIN (via Fox News TV)

AP:

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday refused to overturn a judge’s order blocking the state from taking temporary custody of Terri Schiavo, another setback in her parents’ battle to keep their brain-damaged daughter alive.

Gov. Jeb Bush wants the state Department of Children & Families to take custody of Schiavo, presumably to reinsert her feeding tube, and to investigate allegations that she has been abused and prove that she’s not in a persistent vegetative state.

Pinellas Circuit Judge George Greer earlier in the day denied Bush’s request and has blocked the state from taking emergency action to intervene in the case while it appeals his decision.

Schiavo parents back in federal court

(CNN) — Hours after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected pleas to intervene in the case of Terri Schiavo on Thursday, her parents again asked a federal judge in Florida to order the brain-damaged woman’s feeding tube restored.

Bob and Mary Schindler are asking District Judge James Whittemore — the same judge who turned down their request for an injunction to keep their daughter alive earlier this week — to reconsider that decision.

Whittemore has scheduled a hearing on the matter for 6 p.m., and Terry said the Schindlers plan to attend.

After the Supreme Court rejection, a Florida judge denied three other legal requests from Schiavo’s parents.

Still waiting for the decision by 11th District Court (Whittemore).

Neurologists Say: Recording of Terri Shows She’s Not PVS

You’ll recall the audio recordings of Terri and her father which were posted at the Matt Drudge and the Family Research Council websites earlier this week. These recordings (actually two different versions of the same recording) were made last year, and include Terri’s father, Bob Schindler, talking to Terri, and Terri making noises which seem to be efforts to respond.

I sent the recordings to the four neurologists I interviewed for my National Review Online article from last week, “Starving For A Fair Diagnosis“: Dr. Mack Jones, a neurologist in Florida; Dr. Thomas Zabiega, a neurologist in Chicago; Dr. William Bell, a professor of neurology at the Wake Forest University Medical School; and Dr. Peter Morin, a neurologist researching degenerative brain diseases.

Three of the four neurologists reported that they believed that Terri was responding to her father, and was attempting to form words. The fourth, Dr. Peter Morin, demurred, saying that he did not want to venture an opinion based on an audio recording without accompanying video.

The remaining neurologists all expressed confident opinions regarding what they heard in Terri’s recording. Dr. Mack Jones said “She does appear to be responding to her father’s questions and attempting to form words.” Dr. Bell concurred, saying that Terri “did respond [to her father's voice] as she seems to pace her vocalization to his voice and not the reverse (his voice to
her vocalizations).”

As always from Thrown Back, this is a must-read!

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