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A woman who has been comatose for at least a decade gave birth in a Phoenix nursing facility Dec. 29, sparking a police investigation into possible sexual abuse. Her caretakers had no idea the woman was pregnant “until she was pretty much giving birth,” a source familiar with the situation told CBS 5. “From what I’ve been told she was moaning. And they didn’t know what was wrong with her,” the source told CBS 5. The baby boy is healthy, but the mother remains in a vegetative state caused by a near-drowning incident years ago. The patient had around the...

I am outraged at Israel's latest criminal act. I mourn with my fellow Free Gaza travelers, the lives that have been lost by Israel's needless, senseless act against unarmed humanitarian activists. But I'm even more outraged that once again, Israel's actions have been aided and abetted by a U.S. political class that has become corrupted beyond belief due to its reliance on Zionist campaign finance and penetration by Zionist zealots for whom no U.S. weapons system is too much for the Israeli war machine, and the silence of the world's onlookers whose hearts have grown cold with indifference. I recently...

Rome, Italy (LifeNews.com) -- The neurologist for Eluana Englaro, the disabled woman who has become the center of an international debate over whether she should be killed via euthanasia, says she is healthy. All of the medical tests conducted prior to Friday's stoppage of food and water reveal a healthy patient. Englaro was injured in an automobile accident in 1992 and has been in a minimally conscious state ever since. Her father recently won the legal right to kill her by removing her feeding tube.Carlo Alberto Defanti, who is overseeing the withdrawal of food and water, made the comments...

Terri Schiavo is not the first innocent victim of murder sanctioned by judicial fiat, although the heroic efforts of her parents alerted the world about her heartbreaking death sentence. Almost four decades ago, the fallacious concept of "brain death" was introduced to pry open the legal doors to the killing of another group of unnoticed innocents — people who agree to donate their vital organs at death. People are encouraged to consent in writing to allow another person to benefit from their vital organs, such as the heart or liver, after they die. Potential donors overcome their discomfort about the...

THE TERRI SCHIAVO CASE DeLay's Own Tragic Crossroads Family of the lawmaker involved in the Schiavo case decided in '88 to let his comatose father die. By Walter F. Roche Jr. and Sam Howe Verhovek, Times Staff Writers CANYON LAKE, Texas — A family tragedy that unfolded in a Texas hospital during the fall of 1988 was a private ordeal — without judges, emergency sessions of Congress or the debate raging outside Terri Schiavo's Florida hospice. The patient then was a 65-year-old drilling contractor, badly injured in a freak accident at his home. Among the family members keeping vigil at...

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) _ A feeding tube for a severely brain-damaged woman can't be removed until appeals are exhausted in her parents' fight to have a new trial in the long-running right-to-die case, a judge ruled Friday. An attorney for Schiavo's husband, Michael, said the order could mean months and possibly years of delay and he would seek to have it overturned. ``What everyone with any common sense should realize is this case has been mulled over time and time again,'' attorney George Felos said. ``To permit endless stays for endless appeals is simply a miscarriage of justice.'' At issue...

------------------------------------------------------------------------ MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH Media 'getting it wrong' on Terri Schiavo story Press erroneously report she's 'comatose,' doctors also dispute vegetative-state ruling ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Posted: October 25, 2003 6:36 p.m. Eastern By Diana Lynne © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Network news outlets across the board and national newspapers – from the New York Times and the Washington Post to the Miami Herald and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution – are misreporting the medical facts of the Terri Schindler-Schiavo story, say her family, doctors and the pro-family organization Focus on the Family. "The media's killing us, and they're killing her, frankly," said Terri's father, Robert Schindler,...

Daniel Rios is 24 years old, with wavy black hair, a thick mustache and a glassy stare that seems to look both at you and through you. One day almost four years ago, while he was taking a shower, a blood vessel ruptured in his brain, and he collapsed on the bathroom floor. After emergency surgery, he lay in a coma for three weeks. When he finally opened his eyes, he could not speak or move his body; his head simply lolled. In the months that followed, the doctors monitoring him at the Center for Head Injuries at the J.F.K....

-- Thanks to the executive order issued by Governor Jeb Bush, Terri Schiavo is receiving fluids and medical care at a local hospital to prepare for the reinsertion of the feeding tube that provides her with food and water. Staff at Morton Plant Hospital began rehydrating Terri intravenously according to Pat Anderson, lead attorney for Terri's family.As long as Terri did not have kidney failure, she should be able to return to the state of health she was in prior to the removal of the feeding tube, one pro-life doctor told LifeNews.com.Terri was taken by ambulance from the hospice where...

Since Florida Gov, Jeb Bush signed legislation on Tuesday ordering doctors to reinsert Terri Schiavo's feeding tube, the U.S. news media has repeatedly claimed that the wide-eyed and responsive Ms. Schiavo is in a coma. Typical was the lead sentence in an Associated Press report on Wednesday morning, which stated erroneously, "The fight over the life of a comatose woman took a dramatic twist when a hospital began rehydrating her on orders from Gov. Jeb Bush." The AP's coverage prompted the New York Daily News to headline their story on yesterday's developments in the Schiavo case: "Jeb Bush Orders Coma...

With control of the senate, it is time to replace the leadership of our party with someone that has a spine. Trent Lott has NO cajones and does not know how to wield the power we now enjoy...enough "power sharing". Little Tommy needs to be moved to the back of the classroom, as does Hillary. BTW, don't you love the fact that Hillary's vote wont mean sHi* anymore?