An autopsy on the body of Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged woman whose right-to-die case had spurred controversy and nation-wide attention, revealed that her brain was half the size of a normal female adult's, suggesting that the woman was in a vegetative state , just as her husband, Michael, had argued in court and before the press. The Terri Schiavo Foundation's web site had previously claimed that Terri Schiavo was not in a persistent vegetative state (PVS) and that she was responsive to human emotion. Those statements have since been taken offline.
An autopsy on the body of Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged woman whose right-to-die case had spurred controversy and nation-wide attention, revealed that her brain was half the size of a normal female adult's, suggesting that the woman was in a , just as her husband, Michael, had argued in court and before the press. The Terri Schiavo Foundation's web site had previously claimed that Terri Schiavo was not in a (PVS) and that she was responsive to human emotion. Those statements have since been taken offline.
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vegetative state
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persistent vegetative state