The Schiavo Coda

Julian Sanchez | June 15, 2005

We learn from the autopsy:

• Schiavo's brain was about half the size of a normal brain, damaged beyond any possible hope of recovery.
  
• There are no signs that she was abused (by her husband or otherwise) as some had claimed, though it remains unclear what caused her to fall into a vegetative state in the first place.
  
• Remember those carfully edited clips that purported to show Schiavo following a balloon with her eyes? Well, turns out she was blind.

Does it matter? Probably not: I expect most people put the whole circus out of their minds long ago, while for the true believers, this is doubtless just further evidence of how elaborate and sinister is the anti-life conspiracy to hide the "truth."