WorldNetDaily: Schiavo autopsy: No trauma in 1990 collapse

The autopsy report is now out. For whatever reason, WorldNetDaily has chosen to highlight the lack of evidence that Michael Schiavo, or anyone else, beat his wife before her collapse. But in addition to that, the autopsy report finds:

1. No evidence that Terri Schiavo ever had a heart attack. Her heart was as sound as anyone else's.
2. No evidence of bulimia or any other eating disorder. Michael Schiavo's partisans had alleged this to explain her low potassium levels at her initial hospital admission, and also alleged that this would have caused her heart to stop. But it won't wash.

And just to set the record straight, Dr. Jon Thogmartin takes pains to point out that "persistent vegetative state" is a clinical diagnosis only and can never be an anatomical diagnosis.

The MSM also makes much of the finding that her brain mass was fifty percent what it would normally be. The diagnosis: brain atrophy. Well, of course her brain was atrophied--because she had been neglected for so long. She was also very likely blind--because her occipital lobes, those parts of the brain that process sight, were both dead.

The next question, as Mark Fuhrman, formerly of the Los Angeles Police Department, has said, is: how did Terri Schindler Schiavo come to collapse in the first place? That question ought to interest Miss Sweet Patootie/One-eleven, of course...