Press Release

For Immediate Release - 02-24-2005 4:00 PM (GMT-5)



Associated Press Targets Terri Schiavo



Media repeats misrepresentations in Terri Schiavo case.



Clearwater, FL - On February 24, 2005, Associated Press released a
report penned by Vickie Chachere which cited an eating disorder as
the cause of Terri Schiavo's mysterious collapse and ensuing brain
injury on February 25, 1990.


Contrary to the account of writer Chachere, there was never a
determination by any court nor the Florida Department of Health that
Terri Schiavo ever suffered from any eating disorder, bulimia,
anorexia or compulsive behavior that would lead to a heart failure
at the age of 26.


Indeed, Florida's Department of Health had completely and absolutely
cleared Terri's general practitioner of any negligence or wrong-
doing in her case. This was after the physician had been accused by
Terri's husband of ignoring evidence of an eating disorder.



Additionally, at the time of her mysterious medical episode, Terri
Schiavo stood 5'3" and weighed somewhere between 115 and 118 pounds -

a slim, but normal stature and weight.



Associated Press writer, Vickie Chachere cites not ONE medical
document that would affirm her careless contention that Terri
Schiavo was an irresponsible dieter or a compulsive victim of an
eating disorder. The Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation asks Ms.
Chachere to readily produce the facts upon which she penned such
assertions.



The parents and siblings have repeatedly offered to media and press
a copy of a bone scan conducted on Terri Schiavo just one year after
her incident that reveals multiple sites of trauma and broken bones
throughout Terri's body. Neither the law enforcement agencies nor
the media or press have made any effort to investigate why Terri
Schiavo's body was seemingly broken by battery.



Instead, they perpetuate the unsubstantiated claims that Terri
Schiavo suffered from an eating disorder that rendered her healthy,
26 year-old heart incapable of carrying on.



Statement of Robert Schindler, Terri's' Father: ""This is a
slanderous accusation against my daughter with no basis in fact.
Certain members of the press seem determined to spread
misinformation to kill Terri."



The Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation is calling upon all of media
and press to take up the task of investigating allegations of
serious abuse against Terri Schiavo as are evidenced in the 1991
bone scan and well as ongoing violations against Terri under
Florida's Guardianship Statutes.


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written by Cheryl Ford RN


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