Miracles do happen

My Way News - Brain-Damaged Woman Talks After 20 Years:
"HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) - For 20 years, Sarah Scantlin has been mostly oblivious to the world around her - the victim of a drunken driver who struck her down as she walked to her car. Today, after a remarkable recovery, she can talk again."

For the benefit of those who wondered why so many people rallied to the defense of Terri Schindler-Schiavo - a Florida woman whose husband has been trying to kill her on the theory that the doctors "know" she will never recover and he has a "right" to order food and water withheld from his wife until she dies - read this story from Kansas.

There are some differences between the two cases of course. Terri Schiavo has only been disabled since a heart attack in 1990 - about five years less than Sarah Scantlin. Both have parents who love them and want to keep them alive, but Schiavo's case is complicated by her husband's contrary wishes, a husband who, by some reports, has not allowed concern for his wife to prevent his fathering two children by another woman.