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Schiavo speaks

No, not Terri - she’ll never talk again, despite the lies being spread by her “supporters”. Terri’s husband Michael Schiavo, who usually keeps to the sidelines, was interviewed last night.

Michael Schiavo says he looks into his wife's eyes and sees no spark of consciousness, no recognition, no glimmer of any sort of response. He says he wishes he did.

And he invites Gov. Jeb Bush to have a look himself.

"If he had any care at all," Schiavo said, "he would take us up on the offer and visit Terri and examine the record. He hasn't. He could come and sit in that chair and talk."

Schiavo said Tuesday in a rare interview that he would gladly allow Bush to visit his wife, Terri Schiavo, at the Pinellas Park hospice where she lives to see her condition.

During the hourlong interview at his attorney's office in Dunedin, Michael Schiavo said he believes state and federal lawmakers have little information on his wife and have acted to serve politics, not medicine.

"They're all pandering to the religious groups and the antiabortion groups and the Christian Coalition," said Schiavo, 41, a registered nurse. "They're doing this for votes.
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Schiavo said in the early days, he was like the Schindlers. He said he wanted to believe she would get better. He did everything, Schiavo said, to help her, even taking her to California for treatment.

Time eroded hope of any recovery at all, he said.

"Terri doesn't talk. That's so ludicrous," he said of people who suggest Terri Schiavo sometimes tries to speak. "Look at her CAT scan. The cerebral cortex is completely gone. Terri's emotions are gone. What's there is a shell of Terri. There's nothing there anymore."

Meanwhile, the pandering continues at a furious pace as state and federal bills aimed at thwarting years of court decisions and Terri’s own wishes move forward.

The truth is simple: courts have repeatedly ruled that Terri would not want to be kept alive in her persistent vegetative state. She will never be able to speak for herself. Removing her feeding tube is a humane and painless way to allow her to die.