On Terri Schiavo

This is wrong on so many levels - Congress getting involved in a family matter, the grandstanding of the right wing. What bothers me most is this - the print and broadcast media are not telling people that according to the report prepared for Governor Jeb Bush by University of South Florida professor Jay Wolfson (he was appointed as a guardian ad litem for Terri in 2003) "Theresa's neurological tests and CT scans indicate objective measures of the persistent vegetative state. These data indicate that Theresa's cerebral cortex is principally liquid, having shrunken due to the severe anoxic trauma experienced 13 years ago." What kind of recovery can she have when her cerebral cortex is liquid? Here's what the cerebral cortex is responsible for:

The cerebrum or cortex is the largest part of the human brain, associated with higher brain function such as thought and action. The cerebral cortex is divided into four sections, called "lobes": the frontal lobe, parietal lobe, occipital lobe, and temporal lobe. What do each of these lobes do?

Frontal Lobe- associated with reasoning, planning, parts of speech, movement, emotions, and problem solving

Parietal Lobe- associated with movement, orientation, recognition, perception of stimuli

Occipital Lobe- associated with visual processing

Temporal Lobe- associated with perception and recognition of auditory stimuli, memory, and speech

And this just gets us on a slippery slope. What happens when a woman gets pregnant and wants an abortion and the father doesn't want her to have one? Doesn't matter if the father is her husband, boyfriend, rapist, whatever. He claims he's speaking for the unborn fetus. Will Congress intervene and make her go through with the pregnancy? Even though abortion is legal? Is Congress going to ensure that every American is kept alive, even when they can't pay for it? Just asking.