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What are these tests that Michael Schaivo wouldn't allow her to have? I thought she had CAT scans and MRIs several times over the years. You can't have a test as good as an autopsy without opening the skull. Are you suggesting Michael Schaivo should have permitted that while she was alive?

. . .  social conservatives start to promote the use of hyphenated names?  Up until now, most social conservatives that I've seen have been somewhat adverse to the use of hyphenated names or women using both their maiden and married names (hence the derision toward Hillary RODHAM Clinton in the 1990's) because of some negative gender feminist connotation.  

Or is this just a special case because the decedent's maiden name can be used to conjure up not too-subtle references to a popular movie about the Holocaust?

Not an important point as I have no personal preference either way but IMO it could be construed as another shift in the arguments and language used by many social conservatives (of the single issue variety) over this specific matter.

I use the hyphen only when I think both names relevant.  As in this case.

Every court document I've seen refers to her as legal and chosen name as "Theresa Marie Schiavo" and I've seen nothing to indicate that she chose the hyphenated name or keep her maiden name.

It's a shame that the reference that you brought up about the popular movie about the Holocaust...is almost true, except this Schindler's List was sold to a marketing firm.

Thorley...  I am not writing court documents.  In this case, we had two sides laying claim to Terri: her birth family, the Schindlers, and her legal husband, Michael Schiavo.  She was a Schindler by birth and a Schiavo by marriage.

I explained this once before.  If I were trying to play a childish name-game, I'd have dropped Schiavo and called her Terri Schindler.

But as for court cases, here is the pdf of Theresa Maria Schindler Schiavo vrs. Michael Shiavo, the guardian of the person of Theresa Maria Schindler Shiavo, incapacitated.  

just to clarify your facts.  She did have CAT scans, but they are not really the test that should have been done.  Apparently the CAT looked so bad they justified not doing a MRI.  Also she had some metal in her skull that would have had to be removed.  She hasn't had any scans since the 90s as far as I know.

Who knows if it would have made a difference, but it wasn't done.

She was never property, even in her incapacitated state.  She was a human being, with all the rights that implies.  Call her by her rightful name, will you?

It is plain to see that the Florida judiciary, state and federal alike, is corrupt and desperately needs to be cleared out top to bottom.

George Washington Thomas Jefferson Thomas Paine and Benjamin Franklin would have grabbed muskets and gunpowder to deal with this problem before it got nearly this far.

This is not to advocate violence per se; nonetheless it shows just how angry the American people as a whole are about the infringement upon the rights of an innocent handicapped woman.  We have decided to act as we are now in order to put a stop to the lack of respect for human life at all levels.