By reading this thread, you can instantly tell where people get their misinformation from--and a whole lot of you are watching cable news for your information, because you are spouting exactly what I heard last night as I channel surfed those 24/7 cable news programs you all watch to get your lies straight.

For the record:

1. The parents are Right to Life activists, and are using their daughter as a political football to further the Right to Life agenda.

2. The courts, at every level of the appeals for the past decade, brought in their own neurologists who are experts in the field and not in any way related to either the husband or the parents, to evaluate the medical condition of the woman. All of them universally agreed the woman is brain dead, and that the parents are simply refusing to accept that diagnosis. But there is no question about the woman's state. She is brain dead. She no longer has a cerebral cortex. Not that any of you lot know what that means, of course...you all saw the pictures of her "smiling" at her mummy on the TV.

3. Removal of feeding and hydration tubes does not cause pain, and isn't "starving her to death". But this is exactly what the real issue is that is being fought over by the Right to Lifers. THEY want to determine when you die, and to be able to override your wishes, or overrule your family member acting on your behalf with legal standing. This is one more case of the radical right forcing their political agenda down the throats of the nation.

4. The latest polling I've seen shows an overwhelming majority of the American public being on the side of the husband, not the parents. As in over 80%. Which begs the question: why did the Right to Life movement pick this case? Answer: Florida.

5. I am hopeful that all the other courts where the appeals will be filed, will follow the lead of the US Supreme Court, and refuse to hear any more appeals. Then we'd have some small reassurance that our system of justice hasn't been completely hijacked by the right wing Republican zealots in this country. Yet.