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I earned my doctorate in medicine from a well known American catholic university. I complete my residency at one of America's most prestigious medical institutions and completed my fellowship at yet another major university. I can back my bona fides up with real degrees and board certifications times three. You? Apparently someone who has read a self help book. I lived in Florida when the Schivo case was ongoing. Let's get this straight and I will use small words so you can understand. Schiavo was not dead. She was in a vegetative state. While she was fed and hydrated through a gastrostomy she was not hooked up to a ventilator and did not require continual medication to keep her heart and blood pressure up. Therefore the decisions of care were set by law not by physiology. You cannot possibly know what my opinion on the Schiavo case was. I suspect that it is more complicated than you can grasp because you cannot grasp even the most rudimentary science. But to distill it to your level, I think the Schiavo ruling though legally correct was morally corrupt.

As I said in this case I think the law is good that forbids the termination of life support on a pregnant woman who is brain dead. I also think it is an incredible long shot that baby will make it but it is worth that chance as the baby's life hangs in the balance. However once the baby is delivered, there is no hope for the dead mother and support should be withdrawn as she is dead. There is no hope of recovery. However to even accuse the father of causing the blood clots is irrational as this type of trauma would be very easily seen on physical diagnosis. I can't wait to hear your next uninformed opinion of how I and the rest of medical science has of wrong and you are the sole purveyor of the truth. Also please list your bona fides as you have yet to make them known.

Wow, you sure are full of yourself and your multilayered assumptions ... is that ubiquitous to you? LOL ... I won't bother your lordship further. Please, enjoy the last word, and grace us with more of your condescension and arrogance, lacing as it does at times a mind flitting about in magic thinking regarding others.

BTW, you might note that I did not try to assert what your thoughts on the Schiavo case were. Oh, and I am not nor have I ever been, a Physician. But I do have an excellent imagination accompanying an excellent education, which have served me well in my novel and non-fiction works.

Have nice day