I know I said I wasn’t going to blog this week, but I just saw this article at the Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation website and wanted to get a quick post out.
As most of you know, Bobby Schindler came to speak at Cornell in March this year, and it really changed the way I approach euthanasia as a pro-life issue. I was obviously anti-euthanasia before, but had always prioritized abortion as my issue to fight against. The Schindler family’s personal story about their struggle to save their daughter/sister’s life really showed me that all threats to life at any stage are equally important.
June 22, 2007 (North Country Gazette)
New studies show a high rate of misdiagnosis and inaccuracy in patients deemed to be in a persistent vegetative state and researchers say that the findings are grounds for “extreme caution” in decisions that might “limit the life chances” of patients, according to a report issued in News-Medical.net.
The latest study conducted by Belgium researchers indicates that around a quarter of the patients in an acute vegetative state when they are first admitted to the hospital have a good chance of recovering a significant proportion of their faculties and up to a half will regain some level of consciousness, Belgium researchers have determined.
Another study shows that around 40% of the patients were wrongly diagnosed as in a vegetative state when they in fact registered the awareness levels of minimal consciousness.
According to the study as reported by News-Medical.net, comparing past studies on this issue shows that the level of misdiagnosis has not decreased in the last 15 years.
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Just more proof of the deadly misinformation propagated by the mainstream media during the fight for Terri’s life.
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