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To: IIntense
>> Really...I can't in good conscience say "I know" he is responsible for the condition she suffered.

Who can? Only two people knew for certain. One of them had the other put to death. He may have thought that dead wives tell no tales, but time and medical science will show that he was wrong about that.

We look at it first from the other side. We ask for an INNOCENT explanation of Terri's injuries. The only one that Michael's supporters can offer is, "It's just one of those things that medical science cannot explain." There actually are a few cases of young women dying of cardiac arrest for no known reason, but the odds are astronomical against it. And that's without even considering the context: Michael and Terri were having a big fight.

Michael's only alibi, and it was absurd all along, was shot down in the autopsy report. So this is a false direction. There simply is no basis for supposing that Terri's injuries were innocent or from some natural cause.

That leaves domestic violence as the only answer. And sad to say, there is nothing rare or unusual about domestic violence. It is the #1 cause of death and injury to young women -- more even than automobile wrecks.

Logically, then, the question isn't whether Michael hurt Terri, but how. The problem at hand is finding a means of injuring her that is consistent with Terri's medical history.

1,621 posted on 07/14/2007 5:09:17 AM PDT by T'wit (Visitors: you come here expecting a turkey shoot, and then you find out that you are the turkey.)
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To: T'wit
There simply is no basis for supposing that Terri's injuries were innocent or from some natural cause.

You did praise Dr. Baden early on.

Dr. Michael Baden, a forensic pathologist who used to be New York City's chief medical examiner, said the autopsy was more thorough than most and should lay to rest all rumors of foul play.
and
This doesn't close the book on the cause of this in the first place. But we know it wasn't trauma or spousal abuse. Whatever the cause, it was a natural one rather than a suspicious one."
So the well-known and extremely experienced pathologist that you intially praised disagrees with you.

Michael's only alibi, and it was absurd all along, was shot down in the autopsy report.

I was under the impression that bulimia was the basis for a malpractice suit against Terri Schiavo's doctors, not that it was an alibi offered to the police as you are implying?

The problem at hand is finding a means of injuring her that is consistent with Terri's medical history.

And you claimed I was partisan and you were only searching for the truth!

1,623 posted on 07/14/2007 8:20:04 AM PDT by retMD
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