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I heard a story on NPR last night about this. Those videos that the parents have been publicizing are highly misleading. What the doctors said was that even though she might look like she's responding, the brain activity (or lack of it) shows that she's not processing anything. Her brainstem (the part that keeps you breathing and your heart beating) is still alive, but all the higher functioning areas of the brain - the parts that process emotion, ideas, thoughts, memory, the parts that make up your personality - are basically soup. There's no way she could learn to feed herself, because there's no way she can learn anything.
And Jeb Bush really crossed the line. This is a high profile, high publicity case, and the injunction is going to be overturned in court. I wouldn't want some damn politician having say over whether I live or die just because it'll help his poll numbers.
I feel so badly for the parents, but they need to face reality and let her go. They're hanging on to her for their own sake, and not for hers. She's been gone for a long time, and it sounds like they're just seeing what they want to see.
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